Hope and I honeymooned in NOLA 8 years ago last month, and it was one of the best weeks of my life. Not only was it our honeymoon, but we had some great meals. Yes, iced tea is beverage of the gods. We've tried Luzianne a few times when the grocer was out of Lipton, but it always seems just wrong somehow. My sisters, whom I've long suspected of being strange, tend to use these awful iced-tea brew machines that alway overdevelop the tannin.
Hope loathes lemon in iced tea.
As for sugar, well, yes, I like some, though not so much that it makes your teeth ache, which is the preference of many Southerners. Strangely enough, for home-brewed iced tea, we use some sugar, but when I drink iced tea in restaurants I never add sugar, as it' s nearly impossible to satisfactorily dissolve sugar in iced tea. I'm also picky about the kind of ice used to make iced tea. If the ice is too big, it creates those nasty tea dams, and you end up with it all over your shirt. Now that will ruin a good dinner at Mary Mac's right fast.