Ice Tea - Sweet or Unsweet?

[Laurajean]

Good God, it's just colored sugar-water like that! You might as well frequent a hummingbird feeder!

 

[pdxblossom]

Depends on my mood, but I prefer unsweet . . .

 

[BarkerChickens]

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Sugar ruins my weeds in water!

I don't want sugar on my iced tea. DH puts honey in our homebrewed iced tea...that pushes the limits. I want it unsweetened with nothing more than a lemon (if anything at all).

 

[ruby]

good tea is brewed luzianne with enough sugar to take the edge off. If you don't make your own tea, it just ain't right!! I tried to teach a Yankee relative how to make it, when he confessed he really liked sweet tea! They were drinking store bought tea! I told him there was better tea, and I would love to teach him. But, he saves that treat for when he visit's the home ground Alabama. And I do believe it is a Southern State law to make your tea (brewed) and sweet. When I grew up in FL all tea was sweet and Aunt Ruth had the sweetest.
So my vote is SWEET!

 

[arabianequine]

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Are you serious? You must have a different mcdonalds then we do around here......

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I like sweet tea for sure....not like syrup though.

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

For those that say they like the sweet tea but they can't handle the sugar, I have a suggestion: start cutting back. All you need is a dedicated measuring cup for sugar. Each time you make tea, use slightly less sugar. If that's too fast for you, each week cut back.

Before we moved and I started having to use well water, I was putting 1/8 cup of sugar in a gallon of tea. I loved it. Hubby doesn't care for really sweet tea, so it made us both happy. Now I filter my well water with the filter pitcher (whole house filter is $$$ away in the future). Currently I use a 1/4 cup measure and shake some of the sugar off/out for 1/2 gallon of tea.

BTW, both of my parents have Type 2 Diabetes. My FIL has Type 2 Diabetes. This means my poor children have three grandparents with adult-on-set diabetes. I'm trying to teach and practice moderation. Go ahead and have something sugary, just don't eat the whole bag of candy, don't eat the whole cake, etc. Slowly cutting back on the sugar in our tea is one way we can enjoy the sweet drinks and practice moderation.

Oh, does anyone else have a dedicated tea pot? I don't mean the thing you boil just water in. I mean for boiling the tea bag in. A few years ago my Dad went and purchased his own tea pot. It's a small pot others would warm vegetables in for a meal. Do not EVER make the mistake of grabbing Dad's tea pot for beans or corn. You will not hear the end of it!

 

[wegotchickens]

Unsweetened, in a variety of flavors, black, green or white. Tea bags during the week, in a littl diffuser thingy on the weekends so I can drink the loose Chinese varieties I've been given.

Brewed strong & hot then poured over too much ice.

Today's flavor is Awake. It's been a bad 24 hours.
It was almost Chai (black variety) but I wanted the extra caffiene more than I wanted spicy flavor.

Tea with lemon and/or sugar makes me

Does anyone else get lectures from the dentist about not drinking tea? I know it stains my teeth but I

it!

 

[Joz]

I make peppermint "iced tea" (herbal infusion, eh?) in the summertime.

I like both sweet and unsweet tea, and can always tell when it's instant. If the tea is self-serve, I usually mix it half and half.

I've been wanting to grow and dry Stevia, so I can use that to sweeten tea (and maybe even coffee) without sugar.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

In "the South"....it AIN'T tea if it AIN'T sweet tea!!

 

[cpegram]

I am originally from NY but .......I love the sweet tea!!!