In the South East, they bring you sweetened (usually far too sweetened for my tastes) iced tea. This is amazingly universal.

I live in NC and have been probing the border for years.

For “nicer” restaurants, the universal sweet tea boundary seems to be precisely at the NC/VA border.

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    From merica, Pacific Northwest. My experience is hot you’ll get some hot water in a kettle with a box of various teas, or iced which is non sweetened, can add sugar if ya want. If I just said “tea”, they’d ask hot or iced. Id feel strange just saying “tea” without being more specific.

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        That’s not how it works.

        Since the voltage is half and the amperage is the same half the wattage is supplied to heat water. This means it takes longer not that it doesn’t work.

        OP also said they received hot water in a kettle not that they received an electric kettle in which to heat it in.

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          Plus I’m pretty sure the world’s simplest circuit would be able to up the wattage. This person would have to believe so many things didn’t work it’s kinda nuts.

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        They don’t work as quickly because a standard appliance circuit is lower powered. Mine is still pretty fast though.

        The bigger reason is just that they weren’t common until the last few years. Everyone just used a teapot on the stove if they wanted tea, but more likely a coffeemaker for the more common hot drink

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            Not from my experience. Kettle is the thing you heat the water in. Teapot is what you’d serve tea out of. Northeast US.

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              So in cafes and restaurants you get kettles at your table to heat water for tea, and at home you put teapots on the stove to cook tea?
              Or were the people I was replying to getting the two confused?

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                Could be either, since I don’t drink tea, but I’ve always known a teapot as the unpowered thing you put on a stove, oftentimes something fancy. Since I’ve seen things you plug in to make water hot, they’re always called a kettle (double checks Amazon). Some fancy China or whatever thing you put on a table is what grandma used for guests and we’d never have such a thing

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                  Stovetop kettles are the og and existed for centuries before electric kettles. They’re all just called kettles though and the heat source modifer is rarely mentioned.

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                I believe they were confused, but I don’t doubt if there are differences between the US and other countries in regards to tea drinking, preparation, and serving standards.