Sweet tea- in the south USA

[33 IMP]

We make unsweetened sun tea here in Arizona the same way (we have enough sun!) Then drinkers can sweeten to taste, or not.

 

[demonram]

I’ve had coffee black since I was thirteen, don’t like any flavored coffee. Tea has to be sweetened, hot or iced, otherwise it just doesn’t have any taste, to me. Was raised on southern sweet tea.

 

[Photon440]

Hot or cold, I must have sugar in my tea. Lemon is nice, too.

 

[68 Sport Satellite]

Lived in Birmingham, Alabama for 3 yrs in the late 90's. In the south, sweet tea is a staple and is had with just about every meal, at least in the restaurants where I worked as a server. It's brewed sweet, not brewed then sugar added afterwards. Most of the restaurants brew their sweet tea the same way the fountain coca cola is served - with liquid corn syrup injected into the brew mix container. Then for sweet tea the hot water is dripped through the dry tea in the paper filter like drip coffee. At home they use sugar instead of corn syrup.

One memory sticks in my mind - 9 yr old boy with his mom walks in and sits down in my section. He's dressed in camo overalls. He looks about 14 yrs old, big boy, but his mom tells me he's 9. When I ask him what he'd like to eat, he says "sweet tea and cheese pizza, nothin' fancy!" That boy ate an entire large pizza by himself and washed it down with 9 tall glasses of sweet tea. Man that boy could eat!

 

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[vintage chromoly]

I’m an unsweet tea guy.
I was in South Carolina, and couldn’t find unsweetened tea. I asked the store clerk where the unsweetened tea was, and he looked at me like was from outer space.

 

[toolmanmike]

Sweet tea? How's your teeth holding up?

 

[wahya]

We used to make “sun tea”. (put the sugar in while brewing)

 

[Tony Tee]

I've been drinking more Publix sweet tea with Lemon, since all the stores in North central Florida quit stocking Mello Yello......

 

[moparedtn]

Yeah, back in the days my dad owned a couple local restaurants they didn't ask you what you
wanted to drink with dinner or supper - they'd just ask "sweet or unsweet?"

The locals who worked for him had all manner of special procedures for preparing their "sun tea"...
there were vendors who would service the big, familiar tea dispensing machines if we wanted -
but that was simply NOT acceptable to these people.
Oh and nothing BUT real cane sugar - specifically, DOMINO brand cane sugar - was acceptable.

 

[khryslerkid]

Never saw this guy without a glass of tea, until last year. RIP

 

[khryslerkid]

Raised on sweet tea. Is there some other kind of Tea?

Me too! Mom made the best with Lipton tea bags.

Turkey Hill sweet tea, unless having a Yuengling Lager or Black & Tan beer (Pottville PA's finest) for me!!

Turkey Hill Green is what I normally buy

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

I love brewed tea! Sweet or not