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Liquid Refreshments Sweet Tea The South has plenty of unique regional beverages, many of which have since become popular around the world. Tea wasn’t invented in the South, but we perfected it. When you order tea in a restaurant here, it is naturally assumed that you want iced sweet tea. If you want it some other way, you need to ask for it, and then don't get upset when you get looked at funny. When tea is made properly, it has been known to give an unsuspecting Yankee an immediate case of sugar diabetes. Gotta special sweet tea recipe? Post it here. Cold DrinksWe also like to drink soft drinks, except down here we call them cold drinks, or CoCola (which, growing up, was short hand for Coca Cola.) CoCola was a generic term which covered Coke, Pepsi, and other cola type products. Two of these often associated with the South are Double Cola and Royal Crown, or RC Cola. RC Cola goes best with the legendary Moon Pie, while the Double Cola goes best with the Goo Goo Cluster. It’s hard to top a Moon Pie and an RC Cola—that’s good eating no matter who you are. Your town doesn't sell Moon Pies or Goo Goo Clusters? Try Favorite Candies. Whiskey (a.k.a. White Lightning)Of all the beverages that originate from the South, our greatest claim to fame is whiskey. Kentucky is known for bourbon, while Tennessee is known for sour mash. George Dickel and Jack Daniels are fine Tennessee sipping whiskies. If alcohol is a crutch, then sour mash is a wheelchair. They should put some kind of a warning label on the bottle that says “This beverage might cause you to wake up married to your cousin: Please use responsibly.” Dust off that still! Visit the Moonshine PrimerVirginia and North Carolina have whiskey too, but the majority of it is untaxed. Homemade white liquor, also known as “white lightning” or moonshine, is more popular than the store-bought liquors. Making whiskey is considered a fine art here. Running from the revenuer was so much fun that they decided to make a national sport out of it, called NASCAR. Going in Circles with NASCARFolks figured out that they could make more money racing cars than filling them up full of liquor and making a run up to Bristol. The only thing you find filled with liquor at a NASCAR race these days is your typical NASCAR fan. Being drunk is about the only thing that can make an endless series of left-hand turns seem interesting. What NASCAR needs to do is fill the drivers full of liquor and put a revenue man on the track chasing them. If they get caught, somebody goes to jail. If they don’t get caught, and can cross the finish line first, then they win. No yellow flags, yellow flags are for sissies anyway. Maybe some figure-eight tracks would liven things up as well. It couldn’t hurt. History of NASCAR NASCAR wiki