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We usually don't put as much sugar in our tea here, but there are some southern-themed/influenced restaurants in NYC where you can get sweet tea. I've been to the South and I've had sweet tea, and you guys drink your tea really, really sweet. I'm talking an insane amount of sugar. IMO, it doesn't even taste like tea anymore. It tastes more like a soda or soft drink.
And I'm somebody that really loves tea. All kinds of tea.
Agreed. I lived in NC for much of my life. When you order iced tea there, they generally assume you mean sweet. And it is generally so God-awful sweet that it doesn't taste like tea, but syrup. In fact, a lot of people order half sweet/half unsweet, just to make it drinkable.
Agreed. I lived in NC for much of my life. When you order iced tea there, they generally assume you mean sweet. And it is generally so God-awful sweet that it doesn't taste like tea, but syrup. In fact, a lot of people order half sweet/half unsweet, just to make it drinkable.
Yeah, I'm a huge tea drinker and I think doing this to the tea just ruins it. I get that some people like to add some sugar or sweetener or something, I do it sometimes too, but they use way too much of it in The South.
Two comments of a native southerner:
1. I LOVE REALLY SWEET TEA. McDonald's tea is YUCK! CHICK-FIL-LA has decent bought out tea. My wife puts two 1/2 cups of sugar into a gallon of tea. The only "too sweet" tea I have ever had came from Melear's Bar-be-que (a defunct restaurant that once had locations in Fayetteville and Fairburn, Georgia both southwest Atlanta suburbs.) and I didn't even find THAT "undrinkable"
2. My mother told me that "sweet" cornbread IS NOT a "color divide", at least not in Metro Atlanta. (She should know, as it was a Black cook who taught her how to cook as a child) Her experience was it was "upper south people" i.e. those from Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas that put sugar in their cornbread.
Two comments of a native southerner:
1. I LOVE REALLY SWEET TEA. McDonald's tea is YUCK! CHICK-FIL-LA has decent bought out tea. My wife puts two 1/2 cups of sugar into a gallon of tea. The only "too sweet" tea I have ever had came from Melear's Bar-be-que (a defunct restaurant that once had locations in Fayetteville and Fairburn, Georgia both southwest Atlanta suburbs.) and I didn't even find THAT "undrinkable"
2. My mother told me that "sweet" cornbread IS NOT a "color divide", at least not in Metro Atlanta. (She should know, as it was a Black cook who taught her how to cook as a child) Her experience was it was "upper south people" i.e. those from Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas that put sugar in their cornbread.
I've had BBQ at Melear's.
No one in my family or my wife's family put sugar in cornbread. If you want sweet bread bake a cake.
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