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[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

This seems like a US thing I’m too European to understand

(aka. they bring us the ingredients, and we make our own tea at the restaurant table)

[-] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

What's called sweet tea in the US is overwhelmingly sweet. That was my reaction to it the first time I tried it. It's so sweet, the only way you can get that much sugar in it is if you dissolve that sugar in hot tea.

[-] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

The trick is to order half sweet/half unsweet. Otherwise you get Aunt Jemima on ice.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that is my trick too. Or half sweet tea and half water.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if you need to be told this.

Pay the money and buy real maple syrup, not 'pancake syrup.' Real maple syrup is one of the best tastes on the planet.

[-] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I'm aware of the existence and superiority of maple syrup. I only use Aunt Jemima in this example because that's what oversweetened tea tastes like to me: shit.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I bow to your sagacity

[-] raptir@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Sweet tea can have as much sugar as soda. You would need to add 10-15 sugar packets to a single glass of iced tea to have the equivalent amount of sugar.

[-] JonVonBasslake@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Not true about being able to only dissolve the sugar in hot tea, because if it was, the sugar would fall out once it cooled. You can dissolve the sugar into cold tea, it just takes more effort (so time and mixing) than doing it with hot tea and then cooling it. Cold water can hold approx. 1.7g of sugar per gram of water.

[-] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago

If I order a cup of tea, I don't want to get a cup of hot water and a tea bag. Bloody continentals.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah in the US they have this thing called sweet tea (some places have a choice between sweet and unsweetened tea).

To make sweet tea they just unload a tanker truck full of gum syrup into cold tea. That's what it tastes like to me.

[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sweet tea is a drink prepared hot but consumed cold. The cold part is best done via refrigeration. Bringing hot water, tea, and sugar are not going to achieve the same results.

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

it’s best not done at all to be honest. Just drink a soda like a regular person.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why do you care what sugary drink people drink?

[-] JonVonBasslake@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Some people like the taste of tea over the taste of soda, even if both are equally sickeningly sweet.

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Have you ever had southern sweet tea? The flavor is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. If you want to drink sugar water and brown coloring why not drink a coke?

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