I looked at Kardinal on an image search and some of them look red, but some look pink and some look more orange. I think the camera, the culture, and the lighting conditions influence the photographs so it's hard to tell which is really true red. I used to have an American beauty growing up, I thought it was really red, but now I read it's on the pink side. It was not a hybrid tea, it was more like a big huge bush with red roses on it. It's probably good to go to rose shows and nursery to see them in person before selection a color that is the red that you want.

Hello, I'm a 16 year old who lives in North Central Oklahoma. I drink a lot of Red Diamond sweet tea. I buy it every morning at school. I first noticed something was wrong about 3 weeks ago when I realized the tea tasted different. There was a bitterness within the sweetness. I just ignored it and kept drinking it, thinking maybe they just added something new or it was just a bad bottle. After school that day I felt really lightheaded and dizzy. Everything seemed really funny and I couldn't stop laughing. After a few minutes it got to the point to where I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. Finally my friends started slapping me on the back to try to get me to breathe. After it was over, I went to dinner and just ignored what happened. The next week in my 2nd period class, right after I finished half my bottle, I got a weird feeling in my stomach. Like a tickling feeling. The dizzyness came back, and I'd laugh over nothing every few minutes or so. During my 3rd period class the feeling kept strengthening and it moved out of my stomach and into what felt like my lower intestines or something. During this whole time I kept drinking more and more tea (not realizing it was the tea causing it). It just kept getting worse. After about an hour of feeling completely abnormal and laughing hysterically, my nipples became extremely sensitive. When that happened, I got up and ran to the bathroom. My breathing kept speeding up, my heart starting racing. After a minute or two a teacher came in to check on me. He asked if I was alright, but I could barely speak. My speech was slurred. So he walked me downstairs to the office to have the nurse look at me. I kept stumbling and falling because I was feeling really dizzy. I couldn't take 3 steps without falling. When I got down to the office it had gotten to the point to where I was hyperventilating. I was still laughing like a madman and my hands and cheeks had gone numb. I called my parents to come pick me up. The nurse gave me a paper bag to breathe into. I still couldn't stop laughing, and it kept switching back and forth from crying to laughing. I couldn't control myself. Eventually my Dad showed up to take me to the ER. They had to wheel me out of the school on a wheelchair. At the ER, they didn't know what was going on. So they assumed I was on drugs, and so did my parents. And for the record, I've NEVER been on drugs. I won't even drink alcohol. The drug tests came back clean, so they just labeled it as an anxiety attack and told me to go home. I was completely freaked out the rest of the day. And it turned out that a lot of kids at school saw the whole thing, so it was hard to show my face at school the rest of the week. For the next week and a half I noticed that everyday I bought the little bottles of Red Diamond Sweet Tea, the feeling came back. It would stop after about an hour once I stopped drinking the tea. Luckily, I never finished a bottle so the strength of the attack wouldn't get very high. Other people at my school have been getting sick after drinking the tea (but nothing like what I went through. They just complained of feeling sick to their stomach), and everyone has noticed that it smells weird now. The big gallons I have at home don't do this to me, it's just the small bottles. Has anyone else noticed any of these things? Any information would be much appreciated.

Sunflower seeds and homemade ice tea. Our local McDonald's don't have Sweet Tea, I wish they did though. I tried it when I was in AZ and OMG, I loved it! I'd heard about "sweet tea" for years but had never seen it offered here (living in "Southern" California, is not the same as living in "the South" LOL). So glad I had a chance to try it. Now some of you southerners might tell me McDonald's Sweet Tea doesn't count or qualify as true southern sweet tea but I don't care, I loved it nonetheless. Jodi-

Friends gave me a generous-sized box of store-brand ("Pres. Choice", for you Canadians) Turtle-like candy around Christmas, a couple of years ago, that may have been given to them, but had sea-salt on the outside, so they didn't like it. I think that the occasion was when I went to their home to write a cheque for their church, which I appreciate but don't attend. A year or so later, when at their church for a (post-funeral?) gathering, I told them of how much I'd appreciated the candy, and added how I'd re-processed it ... by wiping the salt off with my hands. So figured that, not having returned most of the box and added the advice ... that I owed them one ... (debt unfulfilled, as yet ... but I did get a box of coated cookies for them some time ago ... that hadn't got delivered before they'd probably lost their freshness). ole joyfuelled ... with welcome addition of chocolate, on occasion ... if one can legitimately call that "fuel"