You’re technically correct, but completely missing the point that folks want to be able to actually drink it a reasonably short time after it’s been served.
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HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Sugar will dissolve in unsweet tea, it’s just slower. If you can’t dissolve it in cold tea, then it wouldn’t stay in solution in hot tea that was cooled down.
For someone complaining about northerners not knowing 9th grade chemistry, it sure sounds like they weren’t paying attention themselves.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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[deleted]bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well it kinda is with the ice in there. Then by the time the ice is gone, the tea is watered down and you’re basically just drinking sugar water
willeypete23@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Chemistry knowledge! Sweet tea is actually a supersaturated solution. That means there more sugar in the water than could normally be held in suspension. This is achieved by heating the water so you can dissolve more solute in and then chilling it. Remember theres at least 2 diabetes worth of sugar per glass.
bibli0phage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s kind of disgusting. So southern style sweet tea is basically just tea flavored simple syrup?
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yea, when my family did a trip down south, i asked for some sweet tea, thinking it was like Brisk, but i couldnt believe how sweet it was.
if your drink is sweeter than pop, its… scary.
bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, yes it is. To be fair, what do you think soda is though?
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
According to Wikipedia:
Coca-Cola already has a disgusting amount of sugar. The mere idea of this makes me queasy.
scottywh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on who makes it… McDonald’s, 7-11, and the like use about twice the amount of sugar that’s really necessary and it does not make it better.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Masshole that lives in the south I have no idea how everyone I know isn’t on insulin. Sweet tea is an abomination of sugar.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I lived in the south, everyone I knew was
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Indeed, give em a few years.
Eheran@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Where did you get that? It would be like honey if that was correct. Also, that is not called suspension but solution, since the particles dissolve (unlike fat in milk, but that is an emulsion since the fat is a liquid).
bleistift2@feddit.de 11 months ago
I highly doubt that, since any shock or impurity would cause a supersaturated solution to separate into a solution and the excess sugar.
minorsecond@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I thought a supersaturated solution could easily be brought out of supersaturation by something like sticking a spoon in it? Am I misremembering?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It depends on the nature of the solution.