Being from the South, the culture of sweet tea has a monumental impact on your eating and dining habits. It is almost unheard of where I am from to visit a restaurant without having iced sweet or unsweet tea as an available drink option. The constant convenience of these choices always produces some kind of culture shock whenever I leave the South. When I started my study abroad, one of my goals was to find somewhere that had sweet tea despite it not being common at all. There were two key problems with this quest. The first is if the country prefers tea or coffee, which would, in turn, affect the availability. Secondly, most European places do not put ice in any of their drinks. The first country was England which always responded with an offer of hot unsweetened tea that would come nowhere close solving this problem. France was even less helpful than the British as it was less common to have tea altogether. Finally, I made a discovery for the ages. Portugal has Lipton tea virtually everywhere with a variety of flavors like lemon, mango, and peach. Every convenience store and restaurant was able to offer at least some flavors of Lipton and it was more than enough to solve my problem. They also seemed much more open to the idea of putting ice in drinks as well. While I never did find my authentic Southern sweet tea, Portugal offered an acceptable temporary substitute in a recognizable tea brand served cold.