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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      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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          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.

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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.