13 Perdido Key · 13:40
Field note № 13
Sweet tea is not a drink. It is a setting.
The glass sweats faster than you can drink it.
Sweet tea is brewed strong, sweetened while still hot, and poured over enough ice to qualify as a small lake. Down here it is not a beverage; it is part of the temperature. The fish camp had screen doors that slammed. There were six tables and a chalkboard menu and a man cleaning a redfish at the back.
I had two glasses. The waitress refilled the second one before I asked.
Drink Sweet tea, no question
Place a fish camp off Perdido Key
Cost $2.50 with refills