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Yeah, well, it’s also excruciatingly hot down here. 98 degrees and 100% humidity makes you want to do nothing but sit on your ass with a tall glass o’ iced tea
by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yeah, well, it’s also excruciatingly hot down here. 98 degrees and 100% humidity makes you want to do nothing but sit on your ass with a tall glass o’ iced tea (that’s sweet tea for y’all in the north).
- bigbacaloa 3y ago[dead]
- InvaderFizz 3y agoAfter the elimination of hookworms, air conditioning is what really made the difference in the south when it comes to economic development. Those summers are oppressive. Anyone who grew up in rural areas of the south is generally on the lookout for chiggers, ringworms, ticks, hookworms, and pinworms.
- PopAlongKid 3y ago>ringworms Which for those who may not know is a fungus, not an actual worm
- xeromal 3y agoI grew up in N. GA and I vividly remember shtting out worms in about '98 and running to tell my dad. He called me wormy and that was the end of it. lol No idea what I had, but we did run around barefoot outside and I did until I was around 12-13 when I stepped on a rusty can and damn near cut my pinkie toe off.
- nerdponx 3y agoApparently some worm larvae are small enough that they can get in through the pores in your feet. I remember reading that a big part of the parasite elimination campaigns in the south involved convincing people to wear shoes outside more often. That or there were eggs on some food you ate.
- xeromal 3y agoYeah, we still had some older folk that used outhouses so I wonder if it was through that. I've also considered dogs because we had so many that roamed free. We did grow our food from time to time.
- sandworm101 3y agoBreaking the reproduction/re-infection cycle was key. Pickup up dog turds did make a difference, so too the widespread use of preventative drugs in pets. Not spitting in the street. Wearing shoes. Bathing in clean/chlorinated water, drinking clean water, proper sewage, and tacking any local infections with serious drugs ... all these things add up to cut the reinfection rate to the point that the parasites stopped spreading.
- sarchertech 3y agoYou probably had pinworms, which are much more common. 20% of kids in the US get pinworms at some point.
- kstrauser 3y agoI’ve never been so miserable as when I got covered in chiggers. Poison ivy was less maddening.
- selimthegrim 3y agoWhere is the sweet tea McDonald’s dividing line these Days? Northern VA? Maybe it’s moving as fast as the saltwater intrusion towards New Orleans lately.
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- dmvdoug 3y agoI don’t know but it’s one of my favorite rituals, when northerners come down here and innocently order tea and then gag at first sip.
- dmckeon 3y agoThere is some unpalatable concoction served as "sweet tea" in various chain sit-down restaurants in the greater deep south area that I assume either uses some non-sugar sweetener or some instant tea mix. I now order unsweetened iced tea, and add sugar to taste. see also: "If this is tea bring me coffee, and if it is coffee bring me tea." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/11/11/coffee-tea/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/11/11/coffee-tea/
- Loughla 3y agoIt's not sweet tea if you put sugar in cold tea. It's tea with sugar. Or so I've been told by my southern relatives. I can't really taste a difference.
- mter 3y agoYou put the sugar in when the tea is hot because it allows you to super saturate the room temperature/cold tea with sugar and the tea is more like a syrup. If you just stir in sugar, you can't get the same amount, especially if they bring you chilled tea. You can practically feel the diabetes when you drink sweet tea in the south.
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- CapitalistCartr 3y agoI had to stop drinking sweet tea this year. It's been a tough transition. We have a saying here, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity", but if you're from a place where 85 is hot, you won't agree. When it's still over 80 at 11 o'clock at night, it takes some adjusting.
- psunavy03 3y agoOn the flipside, having been in El Centro, CA and the Persian Gulf region while in the Navy, I could smack anyone who says "but it's a dry heat." When it's 110 degrees, it doesn't matter.
- selimthegrim 3y agoLuzianne half caff and stevia are your friends.
- oooyay 3y agoI grew up in Texas and now live in Oregon where we get something like two weeks of nights where it's 80+ out late at night. I agree with you; the humidity makes things gross but what makes them unbearable is the duration of the heat.
- Zach_the_Lizard 3y agoHere in Texas, it's been 80 degrees by about 8 or 9am for most of the summer. Sometimes earlier or for days. Apparently it currently feels like 110 degrees (air temperature is 101).
- mrob 3y ago>98 degrees and 100% humidity 98 °F wet-bulb temperature (which is equal to the air temperature at 100% relative humidity) will literally kill you. That's higher than anything listed on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Highest_recorded_wet-bulb_temperatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Highest_r...
- kcplate 3y ago> that’s sweet tea for y’all in the north Bless their hearts.
- User23 3y agoWhere are you that has wet bulb temperatures of 98? That’s near or past the point where lethal hyperthermia sets in for otherwise healthy persons.