When we are eating out anywhere and ask for iced coffee(outside of NE) and they look at us like we had two heads...we just ask for a glass of coffee and a 2 glasses of ice

Gail, you're hilarious! Now that you mention it, a lot of the herbal tea does, indeed, taste like swamp water!!!!!!!!

Seetheworld, yea, I'm sure you're right about the iced coffee not being available in decaf at Starbucks. I never thought about that. But I don't think most places that offer iced tea offer it in decaf either.
Glad I like my caffeine. I'm waiting for Starbucks to do the "quickie" special -- a hypodermic filled with caffeine for a quick injection. Skip the coffee all together.

Someone mentioned if chain restaurants serve the same drinks everywhere, and I know it's not true. I was at IHOP in Colorado and received the 'you must have two heads look' (love the description!) when I ordered sweet tea. Not worth getting into the discussion that sugar won't dissolve in cold water history of sweet tea, so I ordered the unsweet and added Sweet-n-low. Don't like the aftertaste but I needed my caffeine.

Gosh, iced coffee is such a really ingenius invention, I can't imagine it would be available in the South. Do they have iced tea north of DC?