The yolks (and the cooking) make it smoother and silkier than standard ice cream (which should not be confused with your standard nickel-a-dozen soft-serve ice milk purveyors.) It’s a mouth-feel thing.

Now about that regional braggadacio thing — we have a 95%+ market share on that. You’re welcome to your part, but you need to find something besides chili and beef to base it on. That cheese thing yall got going is good. All the cheese I buy is Wisconsin, except for Mexican ones. Iowa’s good hog and corn country, too.

Now please allow me, as a Southern of geographic and cultural distinction, resolve this South/West issue.

As we get started, please realize that I was born in SC, live in AL and have worked or travelled all over the contentious area in question.

The formula is simple: If, in a major metropolitan area, you can’t find more than half a dozen quality restaurants offering sweet tea, you most definitely ARE NOT in the South.

Hence, Little Rock is not in the South, despite their ridiculous claims of being “Mid-South.” This does not even address the egregious issue of why the Razorbacks soil the SEC.

The southern most counties of Indiana ARE in the South. As one yankee was quick to point out upon realizing he was outnumbered in a Sunday school class: 13 counties from that state seceded during the War of Northern Aggression. And you can find a fine sweetened beverage of choice there as well.

I think that’s pretty close to a perfect qualifier.

The sweet tea urn has made inroads into Texas, which saddens me greatly. We’re now raising a generation of lazy ne’er-do-wells. I, myself, was raised unsweet, and have remained so to this day. Life is hard, dammitt, and you should be thankful to even have tea. If the good Lord has blessed you with sugar, then you should be forced to pause and be thankful for it when using it.

http://www.andysfrozencustard.com/whatisFC.html

To me, frozen custard is a bit like eating a mouthful of sweet lard. But, to each his own I guess. I’m a Texas Blue Bell gal through and through.

Note: When I grew up with sweet tea, it was at home. NEVER at a restaurant. Which is just one more reason why Texas should not be considered part of “The South.”

95 percent? Aren’t you kind of lowballing that figure, scott?