UNSweet! We call it Yankee tea as most people down south drink it sweet. My son moved back to Michigan to go to college and ordered sweet tea at a small town diner. The waitress looked at him in a funny way while pointing at the table and said, “The sugar is right there.”
@Mehrocco_Mole That’s just not the same; you have to add the sugar while the tea is hot, then ice it down. If you add the sugar when the tea is already cold, the sugar won’t dissolve and it just sits at the bottom of the glass like a sandy seafloor.
Unsweet most of the time and by default, sweet with some lemon, sweet with raspberry, and I once had a semi-sweet cranberry tea that was awesome but have not been able to recreate the recipe.
For hot, I’ll drink strong tea (eg. English or Irish Breakfast) with milk and sometimes with sugar, but I normally prefer hot tea plain or with lemon, and hot herbal teas plain or with a wee bit of honey.
For cold teas, adding milk is simply not an option for me. While I’ll drink cold tea sweetened or even sweet, I really prefer it unsweetened, regardless of how it might be flavored. (My mother was raised near Spartanburg SC and I am well aware of what sweet tea* means.)
*Sweet tea is basically a light simple syrup (one part sugar, three parts water) flavored with tea and possibly with lemon.
The AriZona Arnold Palmer Lemonade half-n-half is bloody frickin’ awesome. That guy is a genius of tea-making. I heard he also played golf, but golf is for losers. Thank G-d he found his true call in tea eventually.
That being said, why no green tea? I love iced green tea. I am offended it’s not listed. Is that because it’s green? That racism has to go.
Also, definitely sour and sweetened. I’d rather take my sugar with tea, than with cakes and candy, thank you very much.
@Ignorant and in the drive through you have to say “tea with no sugar” because if you say “unsweet tea” they give you sweet tea… 'cause they can’t hear the un.
Half and half - not the lemonade/tea Arnold Palmer hybrid but half sweet and half unsweetened. Most restaurants and fast food places will do it for you if it isn’t a DIY place.
@droopus Exactly. I’m Southern true blue but sometimes the tea is just way too sweet. I want something that quenches my thirst and doesn’t upset my stomach. So if it’s too sweet, you mix and…perfection. Of course I drink tea with Stevia at home and try to remember to bring it when we eat out…unles it’s Chick-fil-a or McDonalds tea, then I get it leaded. Popeye’s and Sonic have some pretty good sweet tea also.
@mehbee
I like that there are all these fast food places where you can buy gallon jugs of tea at the drive-thru window. Often sweetened and unsweetened.
I think Rosa’s Cafe does that? And a few chicken places?
@f00l I know Popeye’s and Chick-fil-a both sell gallon jugs…KFC also. Not sure about anyone else. Mickey D’s started to sell them but that didn’t last long at all sadly
@f00l@mehbee@serpent
McAlister’s Deli has 350+ locations across the country; their Famous Sweet Tea is available by the gallon (unsweet available). They have green tea as well.
I prefer their lemonade; maybe I should try half & half.
@f00l Apparently some locations have drive-thru; Camp Bowie in FtW does not. They have the closest thing to a real muffuletta that I’ve found outside NOLA. Kids menu (9 different items) is $.99, incl drink ($1.99 for takeout).
@mehbee
Many DQ’s - at least those in Texas - are individually owned, or similar. As long as they carry the basic DQ menu, they can add items or improve quality if they wish. It comes from the days when DQs up north were mostly just soft-serve summer hangouts that closed for winter, while in Texas at least, many of them were among the largest and busiest full-day restaurants and burger joints in their rural home counties.
The HQ in MN let the Texas DQ’s customize almost anything but the core soft-serve and hamburger menus almost as the owner wished.
In tiny town DQ’s far from big cities there are almost always home specialities available, sometimes an extensive menu. Decades ago I went to one in a town near, I think, San Angelo, that added BBQ sandwiches for lunch and dinner, and t-bones and strip sirloins w baked potato at night.
the quality of the tea can also vary. It just seems to depend on the owner’s relationship to the customers - whether the DQ is just a fast food joint, or is a major social hub of the area.
I went to one - again decades ago - out somewhere between Pecos and Van Horn I think - that had a full breakfast-to-dinner Tex-Mex menu, and an evening steak menu, along with the standard DQ items. All the ranch folk would, after the morning work that started before sunup, come in a few times a week to drink coffee or have breakfast and catch-up on news and gossip. The DQ was as essential as the local newspaper.
So the iced tea from a small town DQ might be very good. Big cities, it might be colored water.
Unsweet, because usually sweet tea is too sweet, and I can substitute something non-caloric for the sugar. Also, I do love a hot Earl Grey from time to time.
My Aunt makes sweet tea so sweet you can hear teeth crack from across the room.
[edit] I live down south.
Unsweetened please. I like to save my empty calories for booze and pie.
UNSweet! We call it Yankee tea as most people down south drink it sweet. My son moved back to Michigan to go to college and ordered sweet tea at a small town diner. The waitress looked at him in a funny way while pointing at the table and said, “The sugar is right there.”
@Mehrocco_Mole That’s just not the same; you have to add the sugar while the tea is hot, then ice it down. If you add the sugar when the tea is already cold, the sugar won’t dissolve and it just sits at the bottom of the glass like a sandy seafloor.
Tea[m] Hot.
I like my sweet iced tea to be hummingbird food certified.
Unsweet most of the time and by default, sweet with some lemon, sweet with raspberry, and I once had a semi-sweet cranberry tea that was awesome but have not been able to recreate the recipe.
Free Life Tip: Sweet n’ Low is a loathsome, foul substance that ruins everything into which is is placed… except!
Iced tea. Try it next time. I didn’t believe it either, but it tastes great.
@droopus I LOVE sweet n low in iced tea!
@uraqtc Right? But it’s nasty in anything else. Weird…
I like lots of different tea flavors: w/ lemon, peach, raspberry, or mixed with lemonade…
Why you no have unsweetened with lemon?
@baqui63 That’s exactly how I like it. Don’t even try that milk-in-tea shit with me. I’ll vomit.
@looseneck For me, it depends if we are talking hot or cold and whether it is some form of Camellia sinensis or some other type of “tea” (eg. mint, Tilleul, assorted “Zingers”. etc.)
For hot, I’ll drink strong tea (eg. English or Irish Breakfast) with milk and sometimes with sugar, but I normally prefer hot tea plain or with lemon, and hot herbal teas plain or with a wee bit of honey.
For cold teas, adding milk is simply not an option for me. While I’ll drink cold tea sweetened or even sweet, I really prefer it unsweetened, regardless of how it might be flavored. (My mother was raised near Spartanburg SC and I am well aware of what sweet tea* means.)
*Sweet tea is basically a light simple syrup (one part sugar, three parts water) flavored with tea and possibly with lemon.
don’t no why they call it sweet tea. It’s actually tea syrup.
The AriZona Arnold Palmer Lemonade half-n-half is bloody frickin’ awesome. That guy is a genius of tea-making. I heard he also played golf, but golf is for losers. Thank G-d he found his true call in tea eventually.
That being said, why no green tea? I love iced green tea. I am offended it’s not listed. Is that because it’s green? That racism has to go.
Also, definitely sour and sweetened. I’d rather take my sugar with tea, than with cakes and candy, thank you very much.
Unsweetened. Pissed at places that sweet is the default and you need to specify unsweetened.
@Ignorant and this habit of pushing sweet tea as the default seems to have spread more in the last 5 years.
@thismyusername yep
@Ignorant and in the drive through you have to say “tea with no sugar” because if you say “unsweet tea” they give you sweet tea… 'cause they can’t hear the un.
@thismyusername or say “not sweetened”
6 tea bags Red Rose + 1 tea bag of Constant Comment in a pitcher of water. Set in sun for a while.
Drink on ice with lemon wedge and/or mint sprig.
Unsweetened whether cold or hot, though I do like those Lemon Brisk things if I’m desperate and have two dollar bills for the vending machine.
Half and half - not the lemonade/tea Arnold Palmer hybrid but half sweet and half unsweetened. Most restaurants and fast food places will do it for you if it isn’t a DIY place.
@carwinew Half sweet - half unsweet? Isn’t that just “less sweet?”
@droopus Exactly. I’m Southern true blue but sometimes the tea is just way too sweet. I want something that quenches my thirst and doesn’t upset my stomach. So if it’s too sweet, you mix and…perfection. Of course I drink tea with Stevia at home and try to remember to bring it when we eat out…unles it’s Chick-fil-a or McDonalds tea, then I get it leaded. Popeye’s and Sonic have some pretty good sweet tea also.
@mehbee
I like that there are all these fast food places where you can buy gallon jugs of tea at the drive-thru window. Often sweetened and unsweetened.
I think Rosa’s Cafe does that? And a few chicken places?
@f00l I know Popeye’s and Chick-fil-a both sell gallon jugs…KFC also. Not sure about anyone else. Mickey D’s started to sell them but that didn’t last long at all sadly
@mehbee
And perhaps Chicken Express?
@f00l @mehbee @serpent
McAlister’s Deli has 350+ locations across the country; their Famous Sweet Tea is available by the gallon (unsweet available). They have green tea as well.
I prefer their lemonade; maybe I should try half & half.
@compunaut
But do they have a driv-thru window???!!!
Pls don’t skip essential details!
Also are they so good it’s worth going inside?
@mehbee
@compunaut
Some Sonics do this (gallon tea, sweetened or unsweetened, brought to your car window), if I remember. I don’t know if all of them do.
@f00l Apparently some locations have drive-thru; Camp Bowie in FtW does not. They have the closest thing to a real muffuletta that I’ve found outside NOLA. Kids menu (9 different items) is $.99, incl drink ($1.99 for takeout).
@f00l Possibly, I’m not sure we have those here
@f00l I’ll have to ask my Sonic! Worse comes to worse I can get two or three route 44s!
@compunaut Hmm, will have to look to see if they are in Georgia.
@mehbee 8 or 9 places I think. Macon, N Atlanta, Augusta, Kennesaw…
@compunaut
You said “muffuletta”.
Out the doorz. See ya laterz.
@mehbee
some DQ’s do this. DQ’s have a lot of latitude with the menu.
@compunaut Cool, thanks
@f00l DQ tea is yucky…at least here.
@mehbee
Many DQ’s - at least those in Texas - are individually owned, or similar. As long as they carry the basic DQ menu, they can add items or improve quality if they wish. It comes from the days when DQs up north were mostly just soft-serve summer hangouts that closed for winter, while in Texas at least, many of them were among the largest and busiest full-day restaurants and burger joints in their rural home counties.
The HQ in MN let the Texas DQ’s customize almost anything but the core soft-serve and hamburger menus almost as the owner wished.
In tiny town DQ’s far from big cities there are almost always home specialities available, sometimes an extensive menu. Decades ago I went to one in a town near, I think, San Angelo, that added BBQ sandwiches for lunch and dinner, and t-bones and strip sirloins w baked potato at night.
the quality of the tea can also vary. It just seems to depend on the owner’s relationship to the customers - whether the DQ is just a fast food joint, or is a major social hub of the area.
I went to one - again decades ago - out somewhere between Pecos and Van Horn I think - that had a full breakfast-to-dinner Tex-Mex menu, and an evening steak menu, along with the standard DQ items. All the ranch folk would, after the morning work that started before sunup, come in a few times a week to drink coffee or have breakfast and catch-up on news and gossip. The DQ was as essential as the local newspaper.
So the iced tea from a small town DQ might be very good. Big cities, it might be colored water.
@compunaut Thanks for the tip! There are unfortunately none in my state though…
@f00l Bush’s Chicken does here. They also have 32oz cups of tea for .39 cents from 3-5 every day.
Eral Grey. Hot.
@ThatsHeadly
@ThatsHeadly I’m the Dkue of Eral.
@SSteve And now the song is repeating itself as such in my head… and now the cranial bleeding begins…
sun tea over ice
Tea should be hot.
Any decent fresh ice tea unsweetened. Green, black, purple, whatever. Ok to put lemonade in it.
Love it when it’s really tannic.
But not from @shrdlu cause maybe it would be monkshood. I don’t think Sweet N Low can fix that.
@shrdlu would serve monkshood to Moon Moon? Even Moon Moon?
/image “poor Moon Moon”
@f00l I don’t harm animals (unless they are delicious, but even then, it’d be quick and clean, not a bad death from poison). It’s people I don’t like.
@Shrdlu
Moon Moon is reassured.
unsweetened with lemon slice. or… southern style sweet tea, you all know what i mean, but i still prefer a slice of lemon in it also, if available.
I put apple cider vinegar in it, to help with the hot flashes and to help control my blood sugar, so I really need a little sweetener in it, too.
Unsweet, because usually sweet tea is too sweet, and I can substitute something non-caloric for the sugar. Also, I do love a hot Earl Grey from time to time.
i take it up the butt.
uh, what are we talking about?
Haha, classic @no1
Without the tea please.
Unsweetened with creamer. Yes, creamer. No lemon.
With Snapple