Sweet Tea

[Ron]

My Pastor and his wife drink sweet tea, or as we call it in Canada "Iced Tea."

If you go into a restaurant in Canada, unless you asked for "Iced Tea" specifically, if you ask for tea, they will bring you a pot of hot water and a cup,
and a tea bag.

Iced Tea is a Southern drink for sure.

BTW I do like it on occasion.

[Truly Blessed]

Originally Posted by Ron

My Pastor and his wife drink sweet tea, or as we call it in Canada "Iced Tea."

If you go into a restaurant in Canada, unless you asked for "Iced Tea" specifically, if you ask for tea, they will bring you a pot of hot water and a cup,
and a tea bag.

Iced Tea is a Southern drink for sure.

BTW I do like it on occasion.

So, iced tea and sweet tea are the same thing? If so I have had it many times and like it.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

I'm a coffee drinker myself, but I like tea with apple pie and other deserts. I prefer Chinese tea myself. I don't know as I have ever had sweet tea. I like iced tea. Speaking of sweet. I tried a cappuccino at Tim Hortons the other day. I couldn't believe how sweet it was! How does anyone drink anything that sweet?

Cappuccino or a Cafe Latte? Cappuccinos usually are just coffee with frothed milk. Cafe Lattes have sugar and sometimes they put whipped cream in it. IN fact I get more of a caffeine fix from a cup of coffee than I do from cafe lattes...it's the sugar though...can make me ill sometimes

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Ron

My Pastor and his wife drink sweet tea, or as we call it in Canada "Iced Tea."

If you go into a restaurant in Canada, unless you asked for "Iced Tea" specifically, if you ask for tea, they will bring you a pot of hot water and a cup,
and a tea bag.

Iced Tea is a Southern drink for sure.

BTW I do like it on occasion.

Iced Tea here is just black tea (Liptons) that is cold. Nothing in it unless it's bottled and it says it has something in it. Otherwise if you sit down at a Dennys or something and order iced tea you get cold black tea, no sugar

If you want Hot tea you say hot tea....they don't serve sweet tea here that I know of

[Praxeas]

Note: There is a difference between tea that has been sweetened and "Sweet Tea"

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

So, iced tea and sweet tea are the same thing? If so I have had it many times and like it.

The truth is that it really depends on the area in which you live. I was raised in TN and if you go out and ask for iced tea mostlikely it will come sweet. I now live in Az and if you asked if the Iced Tea is sweet they look at you as if you are crazy. The truth is that Iced Tea is either sweetened with sugar making it sweet tea or it is not sweetened with sugar then it is still Iced Tea though it could be called Unsweetened Iced Tea.

Some people love tea with Lemon in it. I love my Sweet Tea with oranges in it. I will take it brewed with oranges or just added later, but I love it with orange in it. I guess that is a byproduct of being raised in Knoxville with Tennessee Vols football being the biggest thing going and the known slogan heard around town is always, Go Vols or Go BIG ORANGE. So naturally adding oranges to Sweet Tea is just a given.

[rgcraig]

I love sweet tea!

I love flavored teas, iced too! My favorite during the summer is Berry Black Cherry tea - - with crushed ice!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I love sweet tea!

I love flavored teas, iced too! My favorite during the summer is Berry Black Cherry tea - - with crushed ice!

I don't care much for a lot of sweetened flavored black teas, but I do like flavored teas like Apricot Ceylon, Strawberry Cream..CoffeeBean and Tea Leaf Co has a pomegranate blueberry tea that is good. And non caffeine tea like Swedish berries. They have a black tea that makes great iced tea called Tropical Paradise

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

I don't care much for a lot of sweetened flavored black teas, but I do like flavored teas like Apricot Ceylon, Strawberry Cream..CoffeeBean and Tea Leaf Co has a pomegranate blueberry tea that is good. And non caffeine tea like Swedish berries. They have a black tea that makes great iced tea called Tropical Paradise

Oooooh, those all sound really good!

[Sherri]

I make a gallon of sweet tea every day or two. I use three family size tea bags to a gallon, and add 1-1/2 cups of sugar. It's really sweet and really good. I can't have caffeine, so I use the caffeine free stuff at home. I do miss ordering it in restaurants though!!

By the way, I was raised in Illinois and had never had iced tea in my life until I started dating Eddie and going to his home. They didn't even ask if you liked it; they just assumed that everyone does.