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13 Perdido Key · 13:40
Field note № 13

Pensacola, USA · May 25, 2025

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