Comments on: Subpar

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:25:35 +0000

(still catching up after a two-week vacation)
Charlene, whether you can get unsweetened bottled iced tea depends on where you are. In New England, I never see it without sugar and flavoring (the closest to “plain” iced tea is usually sweetened with lemon).
But I’ve gotten iced tea with no sweetener or other flavor in it at highway rest stops in Ohio and/or Indiana.

And restaurants in New England often make iced tea with just water and tea bags, and let customers add their own sugar.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:31:35 +0000

Pardon me for being dense, but I still don’t get the “subpar” joke, for either meaning.

By: RobynS8971

RobynS8971 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:07:55 +0000

Jeff S. - when a Southern ‘friend’ complained his tea he bought “Up North” wasn’t sweet, my son replied “Because Northerns aren’t so presumptious that everyone wants a pound of sugar in their gallon of tea.”
And Charlene, down here you can get sweet tea, un, sweet with lemon , decaf ice tea (sweet or un) and my fav (from Wawa) - lemonade tea, which is (full circle here) an Arnold Palmer! Ta da!

By: Marshal

Marshal — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:22:43 +0000

Charlene:
An Arnold Palmer is probably just a variation on a lemon tea.
Lemon tea might be stronger though depending on how much lemon you
add to the tea.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:12:53 +0000

Doesn’t all commercial ice tea contain lemon? I mean, every single brand on the store shelf?

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:39:20 +0000

RobynS8971, there is no such thing as unsweetened iced tea in the South. It’s a myth. My dad used to be an iced tea drinker and he was a diabetic too. During each trip we took to Florida, he had to switch to water because no one knew you could make a gallon of iced tea without adding a quart of sugar to it.

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:48:49 +0000

i had never heard of an “arnold palmer” iced tea, though i’ve heard of the golfer, mostly because my dad’s a fan of the “sport.”

i thought this was a shameless plug for Arizona’s Arnold Palmer Iced Tea, but maybe that’s only because I work for a supermarket.

Thank the gods I’m on vacation next week.

By: Mitch4

Mitch4 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:27:20 +0000

I used to get this mixed up with “Long Island Iced Tea”. An unsafe confusion …

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:04:10 +0000

Huh! So a half tea, half lemonade really is called an Arnold Palmer? Did not know that.

By: Dan V

Dan V — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:27:57 +0000

It did take a while to get used to the new look, but I think the strip is generally funnier than it used to be. I was about to drop it from my queue when the change happened. Maybe Brian Basset writes better when he’s not drawing, too.