[Supes]

Where is the BBQ sauce or the HP sauce for that matter?

Why do you limit the chicken so? It is such a wide ranging foul that I should even extend myself to the tomato sauce... ah yes, American audience, I mean ketchup!

[Slade]

If you call ketchup tomato sauce, what do you call actual tomato sauce?! Probably something as crazy as your other wrong words for things, so I'm going to go with paste, even though tomato paste is something completely different, and is a paste, and tomato sauce is a sauce. Because that's just what you'd do!!

[Ninja Duck]

Let's not forget that lemon soda is lemonade even though it's NOT LEMONADE.

[civilian_number_two]

A pet peeve of mine when I am having breakfast in the US is that when I ask for a cup of tea I am asked the followup question "hot tea?" Are you fucking kidding me? There is an adjective in the phrase "iced tea" for a reason. When I want cold tea, I will say "Iced tea." Otherwise of course I want it hot. You wouldn't ask me if I wanted my coffee hot. Besides, this is breakfast, shouldn't you take it for granted that I want "hot tea" with breakfast? Yeesh.

This is only loosely related to the tomato sauce/ketchup thing, but you know me.

[Slade]

Really, Civ? I've never had someone think I might have meant iced tea when I asked for tea. It's always been hot unless I explicitly ask for iced tea in every place I've ever eaten at where tea has been on the menu. Though to be fair, I don't often ask for tea, and contrariwise, usually they say tea and iced tea separately if they're reading the drink menu.

[civilian_number_two]

Yeah, maybe it's a Washington State thing. I get it every single time I ask for tea. Even when they serve it, they say "One HOT tea," as though to remind me that I'd been ambiguous when I ordered it the way I did.

[Supes]

If you call ketchup tomato sauce, what do you call actual tomato sauce?! Probably something as crazy as your other wrong words for things, so I'm going to go with paste, even though tomato paste is something completely different, and is a paste, and tomato sauce is a sauce. Because that's just what you'd do!!

No WE call tomato sauce, tomato sauce. It's you crazzy American's that seem to call tomato sauce ketchup... or maybe it's just the traveling ones. Kind of like we tell stories about everytthing in Australia that will kill you, you change the words for different things.

And tomato paste is for pizza!

When I want cold tea, I will say "Iced tea." Otherwise of course I want it hot. You wouldn't ask me if I wanted my coffee hot.

Iced coffee anyone?

This post has been edited by Supes: 04 July 2008 - 08:15 PM

[Ninja Duck]

In times of doubt and confusion like this, it's best to turn to Wikipedia.

Ketchup, tomato sauce and tomato paste are all different things. If ketchup and tomato sauce were the same thing, I'd be wary of eating pasta in Australia.

And here in Florida, we tend to order say "sweet tea" when referring to sweetened iced tea. I guess people get iced tea that isn't sweet, but I haven't seen anyone do that in a long time. That's kind of weird, if you ask me. If you went to some breakfast place and just asked for tea, my guess is that they'd know what you mean. I'll have to try it to make sure.

This post has been edited by Ninja Duck: 05 July 2008 - 12:33 AM

[J m HofMarN]

Its a southern thing. South Carolina has a law on the books that says restaurants can be fined for not serving sweet iced tea.

Never heard of it as breakfast fare though.

[Spoon Poetic]

Down here - in any southeastern state - you ask for tea, it will automatically be brought to you as iced. And you better specify if you want unsweetened iced tea or else it will be sweet iced tea. If you want it hot, they will look at you like you are from Venus or something, and they might even have trouble getting you hot tea. Maybe it will come in a coffee cup because they don't have teacups. Once a friend of mine, after being properly chastised for not being Southern enough, received his hot tea in a glass, and it was very diluted - it was like they stuck a glass of iced tea in the microwave.

And people are asking if you want your coffee hot or cold, at least around here - frozen coffee drinks and iced coffees are the big fad, especially in the summers.

[Dorothy]

Up in Treasureville, most restaurants don't serve sweet tea. You must sweeten it yourself. When I want hot tea, I usually say "hot," just so there will be no confusion. I don't order tea often.