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  • bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But sugar dissolves in cold water. It just takes a bit longer. This is 9th grade chemistry. At 20°C 203.9g sugar are soluble per 100ml of water.

    Wikipedia: Sugar cites Hans-Albert Kurzhals: Lexikon Lebensmitteltechnik. Volume 2: L – Z. Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-973-7, p. 723.

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    • risottinopazzesco@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And most of all, solubility being a function of the temperature, if you lower it the excess sugar will leave the solution and cristallize.

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      • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I came here to say this, but the best Aqua is without sugar anyway.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It takes time for that to happen and in the meantime you can have a gross oversaturated solution.

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    • MercuryUprising@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you seen how much sugar those hicks put into their tea though? It’s gotta be hot because they put coca cola grade amounts of sugar, to the point where it wont dissolve in the water anymore. Sweet tea contains 36-38 grams of sugar per 16 oz. That’s a fucking soft drink.

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      • bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        16 oz (454ml) can dissolve some 900 grams of sugar, far in excess of 38 grams. Sugar is ridiculously soluble in water.

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      • Mosdef@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Grams per ounce? You guys are savages with your units for concentration.

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      • flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When I make my sweet tea, I use two cups per gallon, which comes out to about 50g of sugar per 16oz. And it’s delicious! It’s definitely not a “drink all the time” type drink. I only make it a few times a year for friends.

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    • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      example: you don't make a pitcher of kool-aid with hot water.

      however, adding sugar to the hot tea does work better than adding it after it's already chilled.

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      • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How? Wouldn’t the excess sugar just come out of solution when the tea cools down again?

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    • strawberrysocial@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s very thoughtful of you to provide the imperial measurements as well for Americans ☺️

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  • d0n7panic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well that explains the diabeetus

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    • JollyG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is really just a map of poverty.

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      • minorsecond@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m going to look at how poverty is defined. You just gave me an idea for my grad school program.

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      • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hawaii doesn’t check out, but they do look very similar

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sugar should be heavily taxed, it’s so dangerous at rates of more than 10 grams a day

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      • MercuryUprising@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It should be taxed on the corporate side. Taxing sugar on the consumer side becomes a poor tax, because poor people will still want sweets from time to time, making those treats now more and more expensive. Well off people will just accept the tax because it’s marginal to them, but when your chocolate bar that you treat yourself to once a week goes from 1.29 to 3.29, then it really fucks your day up.

        What should be done is incentives to provide less sugar/glucose-fructose on the product side and encourage companies to make snacks and beverages that have less sugar content.

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      • xohshoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Whoa settle down there

        Sucrose is 1:1 glucose/ fructose which is near the optimal 0.8 ratio for fueling endurance activities

        I rode 100 miles solo in less than 5 hours Sunday on 360g sucrose in 4 750ml bottles

        It’sa lot cheaper than all that fancy SIS/skratch etc

        Carbs aren’t poison if you move your body

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      • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t doubt the number, that means 0.5l soda is 5 times the daily rate!

        And when you drink sugar free, your body still crave the sugar.

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      • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yes.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Would love to see an updated graph. I feel like everyone gained 50lbs in the last three years.

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    • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      screw you for getting it right

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  • MildPudding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i hate when i go down south and go to restaurants and order iced tea and get a glass of concentrated sugar water

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    • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      diabetus by L Ron Hubbard

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lemmy is now getting reposts. We’ve reached critical mass!

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    • MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t see the point of having reposts here, not like there’s visible karma or anything.

      Also, I loved you in that thing!

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      • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Reposts aren’t just because of karma whoring. It can be a crosspost or someone saw it and just thought it was funny and wanted to share it to a community they liked.

        You may also be one of the first 10,000 today too.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, it’s the gays or atheists. Or “colored” people. Or whoever they are told to hate at that moment. This happens more than you know in this day and age:

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    • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Surprised you forgot “people who might be transgender (wE cAn AlWaYs TeLl)”

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      • Cabrio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Of course they can tell, how else are they going to pick their preferred partners to cheat on their wives with.

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    • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m preemptively not serving gardeners or lawyers just to stay ahead of the curve.

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      • Gilles_D@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I play tennis and don’t serve against gay people. They make me feel funny with their passionate moaning. /s

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      • MercuryUprising@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m swinging back in the other direction and refusing to serve rednecks and people with navy suits and red ties.

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      • elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean… lawyers are pretty terrible. Case in point: most of Congress are lawyers.

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    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve lived in the deep south for over 40 years in small towns, and have never witnessed a single instance of any minority being denied service at any establishment.

      Has anyone reading this actually ever seen that happen in real life?

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      • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is anecdotal but I have seen this as a gay man living in Ohio. My whole family is from the sticks but I live just outside a major city now. There’s a pizza place back home that my fiance and I can’t go to because they won’t serve him (he is, admittedly, quite fabulous). I can go alone, because I blend in, but him they will just quietly ignore and occasionally glance over to check if he’s gotten the hint yet. No yelling, no epithets, but no service either.

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      • AppaYipYip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I grew up in FL and was denied service 2 separate times for being mixed race. This occurred in the early 2000s. Both times the restaurants were subtlety segregated and they refused to seat us in either section.

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      • remotelove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep. I grew up in the mountains of NC. When I was a kid, the mayor of our town was the head of the local KKK sect. Needless to say, non-white people were generally not found in that town.

        Attitudes did change over the following years, so that was nice.

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      • strawberrysocial@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It might be because you aren’t a visible minority that you haven’t witnessed it, you don’t notice it happening because it’s not on your radar that it could happen.

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      • KrapKake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I am not from the deep south but close enough. I haven’t seen anything like what people online seem to think it’s like around here, it’s overly exaggerated. That’s not to say discrimination doesn’t ever happen, I’m sure there’s pockets here and there. I personally don’t know a single person who is ok with that crap.

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    • CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Stay in the cities (50k and up), its the small in-between towns that can get bad. Bigger the better

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      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No thanks, my town has less than 6000 population, and I can easily afford my mortgage on my house that sits on an acre of land. It’s nice being my own landlord, and I can do whatever the fuck I want here.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨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)

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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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      • 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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    • 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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  • Souroak@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a server, southerners stare at me in wide eyed awe when I pour a disgusting amount of simple syrup into a glass of iced tea.

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    • Pokethat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do they think they do at the factory?

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      • Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Factory? Hell nah, we home brew in this household

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      • zaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re not buying tea in jugs, dear.

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      • boeman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Corn syrup

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    • Speiser0@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      simple syrup

      Wait, do americans use glucose syrup in kitchen?

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • willeypete23@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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  • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “four seasons-having piece of shit” lol I’m going to start discriminating people based on their seasons. "

    “Everybody is welcome at my house!.. as long as you’ve experienced snow, that is”

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When I moved to L.A. from Indiana, I met people who had never seen snow up close. It was so weird to me.

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    • Aphroditusss@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As a person who has never seen snow, I’m feeling very discriminated lmao

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  • Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Damn, I knew sugar was bad for you, but boy it looks like it can make you really irritable. Stop drinking so much sugar y’all. It’s nasty.

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    • sigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      honestly I’m straight up addicted to Nestea Zero. My teeth aren’t rotting out and I’m not worried about diabetes but I need to get off this stuff

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s OK. I don’t eat 'em.

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  • Mefek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean it would be inconvenient but they would still dissolve, they aren’t super saturating sweetened tea in the south.

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    • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s exactly what they are doing for tea in the south.

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    • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t give them ideas

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  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sweet tea is fucking disgusting and anyone who drinks that shit ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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  • MrCrankyBastard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perhaps the real tea is the shitposts we made along the way.

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  • ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe the amount of sugar that cold water easily accepts is the correct amount to not taste like shit

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    • Elderos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, and if you saturate hot tea, won’'t the sugar simply materialize back as the tea gets colder? Seems to me that nothing about this has to do with saturation.

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  • notatoad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the correct response to somebody trying to order sweet tea in the north is and always has been this quote from 30 rock:

    “I’m gonna come back in 5 minutes, if you try to order off menu again I will slap those glasses off your face.”

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  • raptir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also are we going to talk about the fact that I’ve never heard anyone outside of the south pronounce pecan as “pee-can?”

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    • Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What? Canada pronounces it “pee-can” instead of “peh-cawn”.

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    • Uno@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ✋ I’m not from the south and I pronounce it pee-can along with everyone I know

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  • rjthyen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And I hate when they have only sweet tea…

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  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I kinda like the sugar at the bottom, but I’m a degenerate like that. (I’ve mostly excised my sweet tooth now. My dad is in his 50s and almost died from diabetic shock, with no knowledge of his condition)

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s mostly water?

    I don’t have to heat up the lemonade to make the sugar dissolve in it; why would tea be different?

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  • m625@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sweet tea is trash anyway. Might as well just dump sugar into the water and drink it why even have the tea in it at all

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  • BabyBearPixie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sweet tea is extremely common up north. Wtf you talking about?

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  • Djtecha@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It would dissolve you just have to be more patient!

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  • jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We got Union as hell on this post, didn’t we. Every time I come back it has more comments.

    I’m still mad as fuck that I can’t get my precious Lipton Instant Tea at Walmart, because I really was raised in a trailer park, so maybe that’s why I had to delete my own giant shitty comment about this.

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  • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    most ares of the u.s. you gotta pick one, sweet or not sweet. since I rarely if ever add sugar to anything, sweet tea is to me an excuse to drink flavored sugar water. but cheaper than soda and it doesn’t go flat.

    so sweet iced tea is a perverse adulteration of a refreshing yet bitter, tasty beverage. i mean, add some lemon fer real. if i’m south of certain landmarks, i know i won’t drink tea unless i make it myself.

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  • nomadjoanne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lawl. There was a point somewhere in that rant. I went to university in the South and I do miss the food on occasion.

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  • BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Based

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  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now that’s a person that has heard, “Bless your heart.”

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  • giacomo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s pronounced “diabitis”

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  • Kinyutaka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As they say, pick your battles.

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