Posted on 06/01/2005 8:07:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Yeah, in Milwaukee, not only did we drink soda instead of pop, we get our drinking water from bubblers instead of drinking fountains.
I'm pretty sure that's just a MKE thing. I've lived in Madison for the past 12 or 13 years and I forget if they are "water fountains" here or "bubblers."
LOL!
You're too irrelevant for them to even bother. :)
Now I don't have to try to be witty. What a relief!
When I first went down south and ordered Iced Tea, I was surprised to learn there was something called sweet tea. I had know idea what they were talking about since where I live they give you the tea with the sugar on the side. Now I have to be careful cause I hate tea with sugar in it.
interesting. I don't order iced tea much but I prefer to avoid sugar too. In hot tea, I like a little honey, though lately, I've been using less and less, trying to find the point where the tea is still a little bitter but not as bitter as w/o any.
When it comes to iced tea..I'm a sugar addict...
"There's a BBQ chain here that's infamous for its tea - they put in just as much sugar as will dissolve; it takes up almost 1/3 of the volume."
You aren't in Alabama are you?
I have to admit I was very bad about it. Somebody offered me some iced tea and when I took a sip, I spit it back into the glass, that's how much I hate sugar in my tea. This was before I knew everybody in the south loved sugar in their tea. Now, I love sugar, too much, just not in my drinks.
WHOOO HOOO...I'm originally fro about 5 hours west of you! LOL!
I learned to drink sweet tea while at Ft. Stewart, Ga.
In Enterprise, Alabama there is also a BBQ place famous for it's sweet tea...made just the way you describe.
It got me to wondering.
I'm serious...I cannot log in to post over at MM's forum!
Obviously, I click on "log in", then of course I enter my login name, then my password...then it's like I never even did that! A couple of times I've been able to log in (I see my name at the top), but by the time I click over to respond in the forum I've been logged out.
I swear, I can be slow sometimes, but this is ridiculous. Any ideas on what it could be?
LOL, what a strange site! i added my soda vote to the main page; it looks like it won't change the colors any.
thanks for posting this.
Did you check the FAQ's??
Yeah, that's a toughie. I can think of two ways at most. In "It's a Wonderful Life," didn't Jimmy Stewart call out, "Mary! Mary!" with an /a/ as in "pan"? (as opposed to the /a/ in "hair," like most people say it).
I thought everybody in Milwaukee drank beer.
The beer that made Mel Fammie walk us???
LOL, beer is big, to be sure, but beer seems to be big everwhere. In fact, some credit beer with the whole reason the Sumerians became a civilization, though I would disagree with that, based on some recent reading.
I checked with a friend of mine and he tells me "bubbler" is used in north east WI too. He wasn't sure about western WI, though.
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