Sweet Tea!!

Throughout my life I have drank iced tea - who hasn't? Some years I have drank more than others. I have wonderful childhood memories of the tea my mother always had in the refrigerator when I was growing up. As an adult, tea was there but never in a big way. Diet Coke and Wine took it's place.

Then we moved to South Carolina and let me tell you - they love their tea here. It is called Sweet Tea - or you can get Non-Sweet Tea. All the restaurants have it. All my caterers serve it. Everyone loves it!! It is the most common drink in town.

I am preparing for a function at work tomorrow and went to Costco today to get cake and cookies. Then on the way home from work I went for the Sweet Tea. Check this out!

20 gallons - only three of them are Lemonade (the second most favorite drink). I am thinking I need to buy more tomorrow when I get the ice.

The folks in South Carolina are also very clever. What do you do if you want your Sweet Tea and your Cocktail too? Why you drink "Firefly Vodka", that's what you do!

Kirby did some work on our neighbor's well and sprinkler system and she gifted us with a bottle of Firefly. It is sweet tea flavored vodka and I am in love! I don't think they sell it anywhere else and I have heard things about the demand being greater than they can produce as the are a small local business. But if you get a chance, give it a try! You won't be disappointed and you might start feeling like a southerner! I do!