Southern sweet tea — это вам не ваш остывший в гранёных стаканах на подносе чай с сахаром из советских столовок.
In the early 1900s, sweet tea was an item of luxury used as an exhibition of wealth due to the expensive nature of tea, ice, and sugar. Ice was possibly the most valued of the ingredients since it had to be shipped from afar at a time when access to cool drinking water was already a relative luxury.
