I have lived mostly not in Pennsylvania, and have not noticed iced tea in cartons anywhere else. But if you were to ask average American Joe what part of the country drank the most iced tea, I think the answer you'd get would be, "the south." Not Pennsylvania. I am basing this on absolutely no research at all, and am often completely wrong on just about every one of my opinions. So this must be true.

To extend your pride in PA, you'll be happy to hear that I once saw Rolling Rock in a club in northern England. I was, of course, aghast.

i also reside in mckeesport and know about the local tea dependency. tea cartons can usually be found in the hands of adolescents just before they finish the refreshing beverage & throw the carton in the street or my yard while walking wherever it is they go instead of school. "dude, i need my tea." i suspect the co-go's at the crest of grandview is where they're all coming from.

the turner dairy display would have been happily welcomed by my companion to international village had they been giving the stuff away rather than charging $1 for the plastic bottle (not even the cartons) of tea & something like $14 for a t-shirt. is turner dairy something i'm supposed to want to wear on my clothing? i didn't know.

A large vat of iced tea, made by dipping dozens of tea bags into boiling hot water and allowing it to cool, was de rigueur at large family gatherings when I was growing up. Strangely, I never developed a taste for it until I was an adult.

I'm sure no one cares.

Wait ... Turner Dairy is charging $14 for T-shirts (or would those be tea-shirts) with its logo? Ha ha ha! This I have to see.

(Besides, for only $2.50 more, you could have one with Rainbow Gardens printed on it: http://www.cafepress.com/tubecity.15098118 ... ahem.)

Not long ago, Kerber Dairy in North Huntingdon was supplying iced tea and lemonade to International Village. I'm assuming that isn't happening this year.

Hunky Tea! Beautiful!
This part-Hunky always liked it while working construction or landscaping. But it was always Turner's. In comparison, nothing else was sweet enough.

Turkey Hill sells sweet tea (and lemonade) in small plastic cartons in Virginia, and Kroger sells it in gallon milk-style jugs. Winn-Dixie used to do the jugs as well, but there's no Winn-Dixies here anymore. Still, the tea's fairly popular, regardless of who makes it.

But tell me this: are the gallon jugs of Kool-Aid like drinks popular in your neck of PA? That's a declasse delight. They're all over the place here.

A few years ago (1998, I think) I was on a ski trip to Colorado. Sometime in February, I believe.

I was all alone, without my parents, and I had recently turned 21. Every night I went to this fantastic little restaurant in Steamboat Springs that had a really good homemade brownie dessert, and each night I'd order a Rolling Rock or two. I couldn't drink more because of the altitude; a single gin and tonic at the top of the mountain -- while I was still strapped into my skis -- turned out to be a Bad Idea.

Anyway, I ordered Rolling Rock because it was the only thing that I recognized on the menu. Everything else was either an in-house microbrew (way too strong) or something with a moose, trout, or deer on the label. One night, the waitress mentioned that they had "just started getting" the brand, and that everyone in town loved it.

I told them that I lived about 30 minutes away from Latrobe, where it was made.

The wait staff was in awe.

Then I told them that I also lived pretty close to the Stoney's plant, which had also recently become a local favorite.

I ate for free that night.

i myself am stuck in this southern hell hole called tallahassee fl, im a recent transplant from mckeesport/elizebeth area of pittsburgh
there is sweet tea eveywhere here (and for some reason all the resturaunts. offer you "one to go" as you leave!) anyway, i consider my self a steel city iced tea conesur. my personal favorite is colteryhan iced tea (this is the one with the brown and white carton with the lemon on the side) second would be turners, then schnieders, then galkers, then deans. i have lived in many parts of the country (ok 3 ) and never have i seen iced tea consumed (blue collar or other) like pittsburgh. us pittsburghers drink a ton of it! last year working on a drill rig for gmi over the summer in college the driller and i would stop on the way to the site and buy 1 cup of coffee and 2-1/2 gallons of tea each every morning for $2 but, we werent the only ones eveyone in line some mornings had some sort of tea. wanna see iced tea madness go to the shop and go on 837 in west elizabeth they have a whole cooler devoted entirely to iced tea of the local persuasion. yet i digress, i miss my tea and i miss my city pittsburgh will always be home and as soon as some jobs return so will i. i wanna go home

I was searching the Internet for sweet tea information tonight because I was surprised to learn that here in Georgia we add baking soda to our tea. I had no idea because my mom never did. Anyway, I remember drinking Turkey Hill tea, and you can hardly ever find anything like it here. Bottled tea is usually pretty bad.

Some of our state lawmakers recently proposed a bill as a joke that would have made it a misdemeanor for a restaurant to serve only unsweet tea but not sweet tea.

I just read your article and found it interesting. I am originaly from York County, PA. I now live in Ohio and the tea here is terrible!!!!! I saw a sign not to far from my house advertising for Turkey Hill iced tea... but can't find a store that sells it! Everytime I go home to PA, I try to stock up on gallon jugs of their tea because it is sooooo good! I guess I was spoiled in the snack capital and am missing it terrible! People out here don't know what they are missing!!! If there is anyway to find a Turkey Hill supplier in Stark County Please let me know!!