I'm sure we've talked about this before, but it did surface the other day on the Digest and it has always bothered me. Being from South Carolina, I never could figure out why there was never ice tea (no, that's the way we say it) around. For meals, there was coffee with Opie having milk. If it was hot, there was lemonade. Where was the tea? Mayberry is in North Carolina and over the past 60 years, I've spent a lot of time in our sister state, but I don't recall ever finding a pocket of the state where sweet tea wasn't the norm.
Since Andy had such a strong influence on the details of the show, I always wondered if maybe he was brought up tealess although I can't image Mt. Airy being such a place. And the front porch would have been such an ideal place for tea. When I was growing up, dessert was always made up of one of Grandmother's biscuits and a glass of sweet tea. All enjoyed from a rocking chair on the front porch. Can't you see some great front porch scenes at Andy's house if they'd had sweet tea? Why I bet Mr. Tucker would have come around a lot sooner if we'd just put some sweet tea in him. dan _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
