To be fair, the alcoholic menu us typically like this too. 95% of the menu is beer, wine, or vodka and and some kind of syrup.
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eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
and the options are sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar or water
Godort@lemm.ee 5 months ago
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Even if it’s not on the menu, it’s not like you can’t get X neat or on the rocks.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 months ago
^ This. Diet Coke/Pepsi if you’re LUCKY. Otherwise, water.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 5 months ago
Do you people’s restaurants not serve iced tea?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
In some states iced tea would also be full of sugar. And “hot tea” is a dry teabag next to a cup of warmish water.
Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As an iced tea enjoyer, who has been to almost 40 states that is absolutely untrue. I’ve never been to any restaurant that serves sweet tea but does not serve unsweetened as well. Some places especially in the north don’t consistently have either, but in my experience, if they have one they always have the other
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 5 months ago
I have been all over the continental United States of America, except California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, and that other state up there between California and Washington that I always think is Vermont, driving a truck and have literally never been to a place that had sweet tea but not unsweet.
I’ve seen a few the other way around, but that was in New England, about as far from sweet tea culture as you can get.
Maybe a gas station or a fast food joint that use the syrups instead of brewed, but you don’t want to drink that shit
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The trick is “Unsweetened Ice Tea”, which not everyone has. :(
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean, I just annoyed that milk isn’t even an option in a lot of restaurants. It’s something so basic, like.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
actually milk is slightly acidic
jk
akakunai@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Sorry, the milk is for the kids’ menu. You can’t order from that.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Check the menu for items that require milk as an ingredient. You might be able to order a glass even if it isn’t on the menu.
christophski@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Like milksteak?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Like anything with a bechamel-based sauce or gravy, or custard/pudding/flan, or pancakes, etc.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 months ago
To order for a kid? Or the sloppy steak?
kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 months ago
OMG - i had forgotten the sloppy steak!
electric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve been in plenty where you could just order milk. 🤷
Though usually those are chain restaurants that prioritize breakfast, might be why.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Despite what Lucille Bluth believes, vodka doesn’t bad in a few days after opening bottle. Milk goes bad quickly.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
They usually have the milk on hand for cooking, or just the kids menu. If my family of 4 can easily go through 2 gallons a week, I can’t imagine a resteraunt having problems using up milk before it goes bad unless they over-purchase
Wogi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If the restaurant has a kids menu, it also has milk.
WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I like how the small fraction of adults that drink milk is downvoting you for actually giving helpful advice. Lol
tiramichu@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This annoys me SOOO much.
I don’t drink carbonated beverages, so when I go into a place and don’t want beer then my options are basically coffee or water.
Fine in the mornings, but I don’t want a coffee at 5PM. So I guess it’s just water then huh
kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 months ago
i’m a hydrohomie, i would be/am more than fine with that.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Afaik, the only other options for beverages anywhere is coffee and tea. And depending where you get them, may as well just be sugar too.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, coming from a tropical country to the US was a disappointment there. I used to be able to get a variety of freshly squeezed juices almost anywhere, and the only thing they serve around here are bottled OJ’s that barely taste like orange.
Wogi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Most juice has a lot of sugar. The ones that don’t don’t generally taste that good.
But bottle OJ tasting like shit is a real thing, they have to do so much to it to get it to last for more than a week on the shelf that all the flavor is sucked out of it.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
idk, I make them at home with no sugar and it’s pretty good
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Juice is still pretty sugary, even fresh squeezed.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mocktails, a whole new world
joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Don’t forget fake sugar.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I honestly hope you are making some attempt at a joke, and I’m just failing to get it…
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I think it’s a high fructose corn syrup joke, but that’s more like squeezing all the sugar out of a cob of corn and pretending it’s juice concentrate in my mind.
cm0002@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What’s wrong with water? I usually just get water and ask for lemon slices to squeeze into it. Which is a game changer and they always have on hand because of the alcoholic drinks lmao
Wogi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And diet sugar
abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 months ago
’ll have a number 6 with extra dip. Big Smoke: I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda. Make that diet, I’m trying to watch my weight.