We go through a lot of these up in heah.
Posted on 02/02/2022 9:34:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
KNOXVILLE, TN—A southern man was immediately rushed to the hospital yesterday after being served unsweetened tea, believing it to be sweet tea.
The ambulance arrived at Litton’s restaurant at approximately 2:15pm after being called by another restaurant patron. The man was found completely unresponsive due to an immense shock to his senses. According to others having lunch at the time, the man seemed to be perfectly normal and healthy, until he took a small sip of his drink.
“He was just sitting there enjoying his meal, until all of a sudden he just violently collapsed onto the floor, spilling food and drink everywhere!” said Opal Maynard, a Litton’s waitress. “Next thing we know he’s convulsing on the floor and foaming out the mouth.”
The man remained in critical condition until he arrived at the University of Tennessee Medical Center where doctors noticed his dangerously low blood sugar levels. Nurses quickly administered an IV of McDonald’s sweet tea, saving his life.
At this time, Fountain City PD does not suspect any foul play led to the man being served tea without any sugar. They have requested that the restaurant update their beverage labeling and have instructed them to add an extra bag of granulated sugar to their tea per mix, just to be safe.
The individual is expected to make a full recovery and has already returned to drinking tea the proper way, so sweet you can chew it.
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OK, you had me until I saw it was The Bee. LOL
i’ve seen it, and it ain’t pretty...
Tea should be sweetened with honey.
They got me until I looked.
This is about Neil Young being incapable of digesting normal life... what a shock.
I like 1/2 sweet mixed with 1/2 unsweet.
Neil Young asked “Does anybody need me around?”
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Lordy how I love The Bee
LOL! Thanks for posting!
Until I got near the end, I was sure the writer must have lived in Knoxville at some point, what with Litton’s Restaurant and the waitress’s name. But, while Fountain City is a real area of Knoxville, there is no Fountain City Police Department (all KPD) and — horror of horrors! — McDonald’s iced tea! From Micky D tea, dear heaven, preserve us!
Everyone around K-town knows if you are dealing with a life-and-death siruation like this, and simply *must* resort to fast food iced tea, you’d go with Bojangles with real lemon. It’s not proper sweet tea without the lemon slice.
For truly proper sweet tea, you brew it yourself at home, add cane sugar (not that Yankee beet sugar) and serve with fresh lemon slices and sprigs of fresh mint.
I am a confirmed southern man an I cant stand sweet tea!
Except for the dead part “Small Town Southern Man” is close to me.
Way further south than Knoxville but not so far South that a yankee is anyone north of Franklin, Louisiana, East of Thibodaux or west of Abbeville
Mama called it “plain tea” and drank it plain. I discovered that a tiny pinch of the pink packet was all I needed.
I’m not that much of a tea drinker but I still use the tiny pinch of the pink packet to this day. Sugar burns my throat, it always has.
We go through a lot of these up in heah.
Actually, I think you may have worded that wrong.
*Those are the primary drugs the hospital administrators are ordering doctors to use to kill people* would be more accurate.
Kind of like blame the shooter, not the gun.
ROTFL, had me too for a minute. I live near Knoxville and have lived in TN for 50 years. I drink my tea without sugar. We ate in a restaurant close to Knoxville once and I ordered unsweetened tea. The young guy that was waiting tables said “what kind of sweetener do you want?” I said “none.” He muttered under his breath, “lady, you are weird.” LOL
He didn’t taste any sugar - first thing that comes to mind is COVID!! (Lack of taste).
When I first moved to New Jersey I ordered a cup of coffee to go at the diner. The gal asked me “regular?” I said yes.
She put it in the to-go cup with the lid on it and I walked out the door. I took a sip and gagged and spit it out on the parking lot.
I went back inside. “Excuse me. I asked for regular coffee - this has cream and sugar.”
“That’s right honey. ‘Regular’ is cream and sugar. Your not from around here are you?”
I can’t recall if I got black coffee or just did without.
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