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I thought Sweet tea was something similar to Lipton's Iced Tea then I come to find it's not even close to it. I never heard of it until I traveled through the south.
For Gods sake. "Sweet tea" is iced tea with sugar. The amount of sugar you put in it is up to you. You can make it as sweet as you like, or not as sweet. I live in the south and you can get you tea sweetened (sweet tea) or unsweetened in any restaurant. Hence, iced tea with the amount of sugar you prefer.
We never heard of it up here until recently. We had iced tea growing up, which was cold tea with sugar and lemon--or my mother would make the tea and then add a can of frozen concentrate lemonade into the pitcher--and then they started making that premixed stuff, like the powdered Lipton in a can.
I have never had something specifically called "sweet tea", but I understand that it's got a lot more sugar than basic sweetened ice tea.
For years now I've only been drinking unsweetened iced tea because I avoid sugary drinks. However, in the past year or two, they've started to sell something called "Sweet Tea" in big plastic jugs in the supermarkets.
We never heard of it up here until recently. We had iced tea growing up, which was cold tea with sugar and lemon--or my mother would make the tea and then add a can of frozen concentrate lemonade into the pitcher--and then they started making that premixed stuff, like the powdered Lipton in a can.
I have never had something specifically called "sweet tea", but I understand that it's got a lot more sugar than basic sweetened ice tea.
For years now I've only been drinking unsweetened iced tea because I avoid sugary drinks. However, in the past year or two, they've started to sell something called "Sweet Tea" in big plastic jugs in the supermarkets.
That is what sweet tea is. It is made the same way, only you add the sugar while making it instead of putting sugar in the glass after it is on ice. It is iced tea.
I'm from NC and I went to visit New York City and I asked for sweet tea and they gave me a weird look and just gave me unsweetened tea with some sugar packs to put in it.
I grew up in the north (PA) and was 24 before I discovered tea didn't come already made with sugar.
To answer your question, and many restaurants here do the same, you make a batch of regular tea and give the patron the choice to sweeten it. That way the place isn't keeping two batches, sweetened and not, going. Business 101.
Last edited by North Beach Person; 02-23-2013 at 08:27 AM..
Reason: spelling
Too sweet. Not common around here. When I ordered an "iced tea" in NC, they didn't even ask if I wanted it sweetened or unsweetened, just gave me a super sweet one.
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