Last Saturday, I was in the mood for an iced tea (as always on Saturday) but didn't feel like going out for lunch or driving to one of our usual haunts out in the suburbs, so I put Robert on the task of finding a good, fresh-brewed iced tea near where we live. You have to understand: the Midwest is not iced tea country. We stopped at a Kentucky Fried Chicken for iced tea once and they did not serve it, not even the crappy Lipton out of the fountain. I mean, seriously? KFC does not serve iced tea up here?
But Robert came through. There is a coffee house 2 blocks from here that serves a very nice iced tea - a blend of Earl Grey and English Breakfast tea. They sell it in 3 sizes. I got the largest one. Robert got an utterly decadent and delicious mocha frappe. There were lots of empty tables, mostly with people quietly working on their laptops but I situated us near a table with 2 kind of loud old guys trying to figure out their laptops where I didn't think we'd bother anybody by talking. (We talked mostly about adjunct professor pay, inspired by Robert, an ex-adjunct, reading this post on the topic.) I didn't know how the refills would work and thought they might charge the full price each time (like happens often in bars). But instead the refills were 55 cents, so that was cool. I think after-lunch iced tea at the coffee shop down the street is going to be our new Saturday ritual. (They also sell some food, including a crazy-good looking fruit yogurt parfait and dark chocolate covered espresso beans, both of which are Sally-compatible but that I doubt I'll get any time soon.)
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Maybe where you are now is more coffee country. It's so cold most of the time that iced tea wouldn't be so desirable. In any case, I'm glad you found a place so close to home with good iced tea. I hadn't been drinking iced tea for a long time, so the last time we ate out I had iced tea and it tasted really good.
It is funny to get an iced drink in the winter but snow makes me crave hot fudge sundaes, so who am I to judge :)
Man, iced tea is always good. And so is ice cream. I don't have seasonal variance in my interests in these things. I think I do like hot drinks more in winter than in summer (though when I drank coffee, I always got hot coffee year round; I've not been able to get on board with iced coffee). Jen, while I drank my iced tea, Robert drank a big mocha frappe, so my cold drink looked reasonable in comparison. :)
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