In the South East, they bring you sweetened (usually far too sweetened for my tastes) iced tea. This is amazingly universal.
I live in NC and have been probing the border for years.
For “nicer” restaurants, the universal sweet tea boundary seems to be precisely at the NC/VA border.
If you want a cup of tea then you’ll ask for a cup of tea. You don’t ask for just paper either, you ask for a sheet of paper. Be specific.
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You’re saying there are tuna that isn’t fish?
Actually I’m saying completely the opposite.
Read your own post, mate, it’s clear as day.
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I’m sorry, friend, but it seems you’ve missed the point, which is that something like “tea” can mean wildly different things - as evidenced by the contents of this thread. That’s why you specify whether you’re asking for a teabag, a cup of tea, iced tea, green tea, chai tea, a box of tea or whatever. Tuna, however, is always a fish. The concept is simple and so is the difference between the two.
Do you get it now? It’s really not that hard.
Minus the iced tea, which is a transformed product you would order by name, those are all just tea. Like most restaurants they would bring you a cup of hot water and some varied sachets including everything you just mentioned and all would be good.
It’s like if you ordered coffee and they brought you a tiramisú, you’d be like
I don’t think you’re getting it and you seem to be a little agitated, are you ok?