jezi-belle:

So I have a genuine curiosity:

What do people in the US outside the South drink with meals at home? Like, growing up every day, what got served as a drink with dinner? Obviously at a restaurant you order soda and stuff, but what was common at home? Do they keep sodas and such at home and serve it consistently, or what?

I know down here it’s sweet tea, and I know that’s foreign to the rest of the country, so I’m curious. Reblog if you can, I’m interested in as many responses as I can get.

Outside of Philadelphia, a centuries-old farm town which became the core of rootless culdesac suburbs as I grew:

My father and I took milk at home (my mom tried to step us down to skim but we stabilized at 2% iirc) and usually at restaurants. If not available I took water with lemon, he diet cola.

My mom took water, Diet Rite (the original diet soda, off RC Cola) or caffeine free Diet Coke.