Long Island iced tea (continued)

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Vine <avine at ENG.SUN.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: Long Island iced tea (continued)


>I definitely served L.I.I.T.'s (and drank them) in Houston in the summer of
>1980.  At our restaurant we called them Texas Iced Tea, but when
identifying
>them to customers we said they were our version of L.I.I.T.  Ours was
actually
>served in one of them big ole plastic iced tea glasses with fluting 2/3rds
of
>the way up the glass and a smooth finish the rest of the way.  It must have
been
>a 20 oz. glass, with 10 ozs. of L.I.I.T.  At lunch we had happy hour, 2 for
1.
>People would order L.I.I.T. and get 2 of those monsters.  I don't know how
they
>managed to walk out of the place, much less go back to work.


So the 'Texas' in the name is obviously in reference to the size, as opposed
to the content <g>.

Bruce