Is sweet tea an acquired taste? And if one didn't have access to it as a kid,

[raccoon]

can one acquire the taste for it as an adult?

[Capn Sunshine]

1. Help me out here

Even though I've lived in Texas, I have no idea what "Sweet Tea" is.

[raccoon]

7. Sweet tea is sweetened when it is made. Undrinkable tea, I mean, unsweetened,

is when you attempt to sweeten it AFTER it's made, and usually it's cold.

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19. I don't get the difference between sweetening it when you make it, and

sweetening it after it's made. What difference does it make?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Sugar doesn't dissolve well in cold water.

So what you usually get in the latter circumstance is tasteless brown water with a bunch of granulated sugar at the bottom. Yuck.

[raccoon]

24. After it's made, usually it has been refrigerated, so sugar doesn't dissolve very well. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Sweet tea is an abomination. I used to love it as a kid, but when I grew up, I stopped liking it.

But then, as I grow older, I find myself liking sweet stuff less and less.

Though I will drink the Hawaiian sweetened tea - they do it right.

Southern sweet tea, though? Ewwwww. Might as well shit in your own yard and walk over it barefoot and get hookworms.

[Kali]

21. ...

:rofl:


hookworms: the perfect touch to walking in your yard

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27. Well, when I think 'sweet tea', I think of the south. And when I think of the south,

I think of people shitting in their yards barefoot and thus acquiring hookworms.

[TZ]

3. I never had it as a kid. But I like it as an adult.

I have a serious sweet tooth though..:)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. If it is, I don't think I'll ever acquire it. Yechh. nt

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Actually, UNsweet tea is an acquired taste, and one that I have personally yet to acquire.

Tea is intended to be sweet, and not just to be some sort of brown flavorless water.

[TZ]

6. +1

:hi:

[raccoon]

8. +2. nt

[MicaelS]

12. Easy solution.... lemons

When I was a kid, I would put an inch of sugar in my iced tea. My mother broke me of that, and said, "Use lemons instead." Now my standard order for a beverage is "Iced tea, and a little bowl of lemons, please." In Texas, even in the depths of winter.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. Lemons are okay in small moderation....I like a little lemon and a little sugar.

But straight unsweet tea without any sort of sweetening agent is truly repulsive.

[TZ]

16. Umm sweet and sour tastes are kinda different

Most of us who like sweet tea like it being sweet. Adding bitter isn't gonna appeal to many. Sour brown watery substance...ick...

[pintobean]

9. I only know 1 person who likes it

[Richardo]

10. Not me.

I ordered tea in Georgia once without specifying "unsweetened". It was like drinking cold brown sugar water. x(

They do the same in Texas, so I've learned. I drink tea without sugar anyway - just some lemon, and that's for iced tea only.

[Capn Sunshine]

11. so, it's not an alcoholic beverage?

is that something different? That's the only place I've seen it, in the booze aisle.

[Richardo]

13. Quite the contrary.

Iced tea is the drink of choice at a non-drinking business lunch, especially down here. If you're a yankee like me, you learn that the default setting for tea is 'sweetened' and unsweetened the exception.

Trivia: I heard once that the reason southern tea is so sweet is that during the Civil War blockades, tea was more scarce and expensive than sugar, and sugar was used to stretch a household's tea supply. :shrug:

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On edit: As to your other question, I've seen it in the booze aisle as 'hard' tea.

[Heidi]

14. It was the beverage of choice when I was growing up in Oklahoma, BUT

my grandparents were diabetic, so it was always served unsweetened in my family and ya added sugar to it. (But the sugar always sat at the bottom of the glass, anyway.) I still take both cold and hot tea unsweetened.

[RainDog]

17. from the south, always had sweet tea around as a kid. now drink it straight up

with ice.

with milk and/or honey if hot.

[revolution breeze]

18. Hubby grew up in Indiana

Drank it unsweetened while I grew up in the South drinking tea with sugar and lemon. I now make it unsweetened but use simple syrup to sweeten (or saccharine for my diabetic daughter) and add lemon to my glass. It is a staple during the summer!

[mitchum]

22. The secret to sweet tea is making it with simple syrup (the same for lemonade)

[bamacrat]

23. Unsweet Tea tastes like ass.

I grew up in the south and never really cared for tea, so I was in the minority. I'll have it here and there but only sweet. My aunt Claudia used to make the best sweet tea, and it was about the only tea I would drink. She put 3 cups of sugar per gallon. Mmmm almost like syrup. My dad loves sweet tea but even his sweet tea isnt sweet enough. I never had a fix for caffeine as a child so I always preferred milk, water, or oj.

Unsweet Tea is an abomination.

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[Rabrrrrrr]

26. Or put it this way: Sweet tea is not an acquired taste, it is for people who have acquired no taste.

x(

[rcrush]

28. Any Tea tastes like shit.