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[damont]

Yesterday was Memorial Day in the USA (May Bank Holiday in the UK, IIRC). Which, according to the traditional Society types in New York / New England near where I grew up, is the Official Beginning Of Summer. (By this standard, summer officially ends on Labor Day.) And, as it is summer, it is now permissible to:

• Wear white outer clothing (this includes shoes). (Official uniforms or parts thereof are allowed to be white as appropriate year-round.)
• Drink, request, and serve iced tea (this includes hot or warm tea poured into a glass full of ice).

(I myself never quite understood these rules, but by the standards of those Societies I've always been a Philistine...)

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[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think Baltimore is further north than St Louis, and Polite Society in Bal'mer is *definitely* Southern in origin... but more of a mix today, as northeastern ways have started to mix in as far south as Norfolk. (E.g., ice tea can be either sweet-tea or unsweetened until you hit North Carolina. Of course there are now *three* iced-tea dividing lines. Biscuits vs rolls depends on what group you're with, from the Mason-Dixon line all to way down to just north of Richmond -- but that was ALL biscuit-only territory until after World War II.)