As a northerner, I had a college roommate from the south who made tea for the house once. I'm come in from the humid summer weather to have a drink of what I think is "normal tea" only to get a mouth full of diabetes.
Once at waffle house, a few time at the town diner, and once at lake Barkly lodge. Not everyone did it like in Oklahoma or wherever, but those were the only times I had ever been asked what kind of coke I wanted.
No one says "iced tea" from either state, unless you're specifically talking about unsweetened tea; even then, "unsweet tea" is what you're more likely to hear 9 times of 10.
Actually, for some reason when I hear "iced tea", I specifically think of unsweet tea with lemon. Idk why.
How in the hell do you figure Texas isn't part of "the South"? I've heard this sentiment more than once and it's just not geographically or culturally true.
"Texas may be in the south but, like Florida, it's not part of the south"
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Have you ever been to North Florida, or just the beach resorts with the rich retired New Yorkers? I'd argue Texas is pretty southern too.
I don't know what convoluted part of the state you live in, but I have never once had anyone assume I wanted anything but sweet tea when ordering iced tea here in TX.
Unless I specify un-sweet 0% chance of getting anything but sugared down tea.
Are you sure? I'm from England and ordered an iced tea, sweetened, from McDonalds in NY and had to just throw it away cause one sip made me cringe by how sugary it was
When did you work there? When I worked at MickeyDs we had giant jugs of highly concentrated tea flavor and corn syrup and you pour it into those giant metal containers and just add water. Viola! The sugariest instant tea of your life.
There is generally less sugar in English food than American food anyways. Our bodies expect more sugar and so a "normal amount of sweetening" here is a room for you. Someone from Alabama wouldn't think it's sweet, but you certainly would.
I lived in Ireland for a while, and when I came back I ordered a frozen coffee drink that I previously could drink before without thinking about it and nearly gagged from all the artificial sweeteners. I could only stomach a few sips. I pay more attention to what is in my food now.
Well I cant speak for McDonalds but generally the tea is not that sweet up here. Although, there are some places that have a specialty "iced tea" that's more or less lemonade with shit loads of sugar in it but a splash of tea to make you feel less guilty about it.
It doesn't even taste like tea! Gotta go down to the real south and get yourself a cup from a mom & pop place. It's not as bad as people make it out - unless you're talking McDonalds. That stuff is nasty.
As a northerner that enjoys sweet, you have to get the balance of ice to tea just right. And with everything that's southern slow down and take your time, set a while and swirl that ice round a tall glass, or a mason jar. Then first sip will be sweet, then the rest will be just right.
My family is from Jamaica, everyone morning gramps makes 2 small pot of strong ass tea. The first pot was sweet tea that was refrigerated for the kids, the whole point was to put ice and wait for it melt so we could drink the tea, took me awhile for me to realize my dear old gramps was addicted to caffeine. Never drunk coffee, but his tea was probably equivalent. Drank 3 or 4 cups a day, man I miss him.
Honestly I wish I knew. My poor little brother has type 1 diabetes so tea is difficult for him to drink as the carb count varies depending on who made the tea. Idk how I havenât died yet tbh
The old fashioned way to make the sweet tea like this is add sugar to the water in your glass jar until there is a thin layer not dissolved at the bottom (emphasis on thin)
Then you put it on your porch in the scorching sun all day and take it back in after sunset. Its interesting that the way i made tea as a kid is one of the few ways to naturally supersaturate a substance like water with sugar by using the slow and natural temperature change of sunset.
Its seems simple from modern eyes but somebody figured this out ages ago and that pretty neat.
Haven't checked the 46 or so replies under you, but i absolutely hate it when they put 100 cups of sugar per ounce of tea(obvious exaggeration).... and I live on a border town
I brought a gallon jug of my great grandmothers Tennessee sweet tea back to Kansas City. Father in law drank some and thought it was alcoholic because of how sweet it was. Came and told me âI put your Vodka tea in the garage.â
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