Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
I'm a southern boy raised in Gainesville, Georgia, so it's natural for me to want fast food and sweet tea, but those are the things I've had to cut back on.
I was a big sweet-tea guy.
Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?
Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?
