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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.
That is very unusual. I have always been asked if I wanted sweetened or unsweetened tea in every restaurant I have been to in the south.
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.
When I was a kid, before there was such a thing as "Iced Tea Mix", that's how you made it. You put the sugar in the bottom of the pitcher with the tea bags and then poured the boiling water over it and let it steep. Then you got the big slotted spoon and removed the tea bags.
We didn't call it "sweet tea", though. It was just iced tea.
The ONLY places I have ever seen them hand you a glass of unsweetened iced tea and some sugar packets is in a diner or other restaurant. It doesn't work, because the tea is already cold and the sugar doesn't dissolve.
I looked at the link--that's pretty much the same thing, only I think my mother used only a cup of sugar. Find it hilarious that they have a "recipe" for iced tea, though.
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.
If you put sugar packets in it, it won't taste the same. It needs to be brewed with the sugar in it at a higher temperature. Sugar doesn't dissolve properly in cold water, esp water with ice. Didn't anybody else do saturation point of sugar in water in chemistry class? :I Saturated/Super Saturated/etc...
Also, the tea needs to be relatively fresh. It's like coffee, if it isn't brewed fresh it goes bad. Also, Nestea, Lipton etc and any of those taste absolutely terrible.
My relatives in eastern Ohio make sweet tea (all natives to the area). Otoh my late mother who was from the deep south never made sweet tea. I don't know the whys but once again the opposite culture ways can be found crossing the mason dixon line. I usually cocktail it (a little bit of sweet tea in a glass with unsweet the rest of the way). Straight sweet tea is often too sweet for my taste.
When I was a kid, before there was such a thing as "Iced Tea Mix", that's how you made it. You put the sugar in the bottom of the pitcher with the tea bags and then poured the boiling water over it and let it steep. Then you got the big slotted spoon and removed the tea bags.
We didn't call it "sweet tea", though. It was just iced tea.
The ONLY places I have ever seen them hand you a glass of unsweetened iced tea and some sugar packets is in a diner or other restaurant. It doesn't work, because the tea is already cold and the sugar doesn't dissolve.
I looked at the link--that's pretty much the same thing, only I think my mother used only a cup of sugar. Find it hilarious that they have a "recipe" for iced tea, though.
I didn't call it sweet tea either. We always called it iced tea or just tea. I am not sure where "sweet tea" came from. The only time I use the term sweet tea is when I am in a restaurant, and prefer my tea sweetened. And you are right, one cup of sugar is fine for me.
I don't understand how people drink unsweetened tea, it's beyond nasty bitter, tart, I can't even find the words. My understanding growing up Tea is sweet Tea. I had to learn people drink it with out sugar.
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