Grandma Bean (Tami's Mom) came over to the house the other night and as our nightly ritual goes, I made us a cup of coffee. Our daughter, Tabitha, was also there and we were just visiting about this and that. Grandma had been there for awhile and when she took a drink of her coffee, it had gone cold! While not a good thing for Grandma, it was a good thing for us because it prompted a story.
Grandma said that in the summertime, her Mother's sisters would come to visit. These were her Aunt Una Readdy, Aunt Katheryne Whitstone and Aunt Donese Moten. They were "from Oklahoma" and didn't visit very often. "It would be hot summertime and they would just sit around and drink iced coffee." Tabitha and I both stopped her and said "What? Did you say ICED COFFEE??"
"Why yes. They would pour their coffee and then put ice cubes in it." We were just flabbergasted! We quizzed her some more on why they did it and she seemed to think it was an "Oklahoma Thing." After talking further, I think we determined that one of the Aunts was living in California and that could account for this strange practice!
So... Iced Coffee was not invented by Starbucks, Tim Horton's or McDonald's! The first sip may have been from crock cup, on a hot Ozark front porch, by some ladies that couldn't even pronounce "frappuccino" or "frappe"!!
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