Comment on Sweet tea

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• ViperActual@sh.itjust.works ⁨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.

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  • gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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      • gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨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.

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • raptir@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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  • JonVonBasslake@sopuli.xyz ⁨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.

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• ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk ⁨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.

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  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FUCKIN LIPTON

    THAT’S NOT TEA

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    • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      well it ain’t no PG TIPS but it will make a gallon of oddly flavored water cooked in the sun, which when chilled and enhanced with fresh lemon juice and served over ice, is dope

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      • DrRatso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        well it ain’t no PG TIPS but it will make a gallon of oddly flavored water

        Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨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.

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• wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨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 going to achieve the same results.

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  • FringeTheory999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why do you care what sugary drink people drink?

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    • JonVonBasslake@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • FringeTheory999@lemmy.world ⁨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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