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[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I was curious about this whole sweet tea thing as well...I love iced tea - but I always put sugar (splena or sweet and low) in it Do people actually drink tea with no sweeteners in it at all ?

Yes! LOL. I have found that when I travel up north and ask for tea, it is always without sugar. Whereas when you ask for tea in a southern resturant it comes with sugar (unless you tell them otherwise).

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

So is sweet tea just tea with sugar in it or is some different type of tea specifically?

Well the tea bags you buy for sweat tea are different than tea bags you would buy for hot tea.

[DrummerDeanna]

Right - but like Lipton has tea you can make hot or cold

I think I'm getting a clear picture now.....I wouln't like my tea to come to me sweetened...I need to sweeten it to my own taste and liking

[amber]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I was curious about this whole sweet tea thing as well...I love iced tea - but I always put sugar (splena or sweet and low) in it Do people actually drink tea with no sweeteners in it at all ?

I do. And coffee, if I have it. It's from back in the day when I wasn't eating refined sugar or dairy. Sometimes I would put honey, but quickly got used to having my beverages w/out sugar. But then, I don't drink ice tea often, usually warm tea, which tends to be more naturally flavorful. And I don't drink warm coffee often, usually iced.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Right - but like Lipton has tea you can make hot or cold

I think I'm getting a clear picture now.....I wouln't like my tea to come to me sweetened...I need to sweeten it to my own taste and liking

I boil water with 8 Lipton tea bags in it. While that is boiling, I put sugar and ice cubes in a pitcher. I pour the hot tea in....and just fill the rest of the pitcher up with hot water....I taste it....if it needs more sugar, I put more in. Sometimes I add lemon.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I boil water with 8 Lipton tea bags in it. While that is boiling, I put sugar and ice cubes in a pitcher. I pour the hot tea in....and just fill the rest of the pitcher up with hot water....I taste it....if it needs more sugar, I put more in. Sometimes I add lemon.

I love lemon in mine! GREAT

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I boil water with 8 Lipton tea bags in it. While that is boiling, I put sugar and ice cubes in a pitcher. I pour the hot tea in....and just fill the rest of the pitcher up with hot water....I taste it....if it needs more sugar, I put more in. Sometimes I add lemon.

You eat refined white sugar and you have abs - I officially am so jealous that I think I hate you

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I boil water with 8 Lipton tea bags in it. While that is boiling, I put sugar and ice cubes in a pitcher. I pour the hot tea in....and just fill the rest of the pitcher up with hot water....I taste it....if it needs more sugar, I put more in. Sometimes I add lemon.

And that's? sweet tea? It's just regular tea to me lol....I mean that's just how one makes tea no?

Well - except I don't automatically add sugar to the whole pitcher lol...I leave that up to whoever's drinking a glass...

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I think I'm getting a clear picture now.....I wouln't like my tea to come to me sweetened...I need to sweeten it to my own taste and liking

That's basically it. Iced tea is just that- regular Orange Pekoe tea that is chilled. Here in LA, if you order tea that's what you get- just plain tea. At drive through joints they'll ask you "Do you want lemon with your iced tea?"

In the South, if you order "iced tea" you automatically get this nasty swill that been loaded with some kind of sweetener- usually regular sugar, but I have had it with stuff that's gotta be something else. I dunno, maybe Karo syrup (corn syrup) or something....

I like iced tea to be just iced tea- tea with ice. No lemon, no sugar, no honey, no Karo, no raspberry flavor- just plain tea.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

And that's? sweet tea? It's just regular tea to me lol....I mean that's just how one makes tea no?

Well - except I don't automatically add sugar to the whole pitcher lol...I leave that up to whoever's drinking a glass...

We call it sweet tea here. Regular tea is no sweetner.


Tea is confusing.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

We call it sweet tea here. Regular tea is no sweetner.


Tea is confusing.

Okay - I think my brain is now fully wrapped around the sweet tea concept Good to know in case I ever visit the south

[Miss Vicky]

Originally Posted by Lux

I'm thinking that tea over here is not like what you're talking about. Tea here is English tea, that being hot, either black or white and often without sugar. I have mine white (that means milk, not creamer or whatever it is over there), no sugar and I avoid teabags. The looseleaf is so much nicer. Anyway, that sounds like I was putting in an order.

Yeah, it's totally different over here.

Americans (from what I gather, I'm not a tea or coffee drinker myself) don't usually put anything but lemon and/or sweeteners in their tea. Creamer or milk is typically reserved for coffee.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by Lux

I'm thinking that tea over here is not like what you're talking about. Tea here is English tea, that being hot, either black or white and often without sugar. I have mine white (that means milk, not creamer or whatever it is over there), no sugar and I avoid teabags. The looseleaf is so much nicer. Anyway, that sounds like I was putting in an order.

mmm..my sister brought some English tea home from her trip to London a few years ago...SOOOO good.

She made it and then put milk in it and insisted we drink it the way she was taught to drink it in England...and damned if it wasn't the best damn tea I EVER had

[skcin]

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

Yeah, it's totally different over here.

Americans (from what I gather, I'm not a tea or coffee drinker myself) don't usually put anything but lemon and/or sweeteners in their tea. Creamer or milk is typically reserved for coffee.

I always put milk in my hot tea. I do get some strange looks, though.

[estranged4life]

either straight (No sugar or ice) or sweetened (No ice), That's the way I have drank it all of my life and will until someone decides it's time for me to go terrorize those in the afterlife