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quantumreality
2008-11-26 01:24 am UTC (link)

That always confuses me (the sweet tea/iced tea thing)... at least where I am (dunno about the rest of Canada, but we tend to be fairly monolithic in some respects), Canadians generally all agree that "iced tea" means a sweetened variant that is not really (or maybe it is?) made from tea.

If you want an idea of what I mean, it basically comes in bottles or cans that look like the pictures on this website:

http://www.liptontea.ca/icedtea_lemon.asp

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	keri 2008-11-26 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Just so you know, that stuff is disgusting. It's not proper sweet tea at all because of the flavor syrups. The worst part is that some chain restaurants down here? That's all they have, the raspberry one, because that's what corporate ordered. D: (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quantumreality 2008-11-26 01:35 am UTC (link)
	Raspberry? Oh, lordly Mclord, I sympathize with you, Proper iced tea is lemon-flavored as far as I'm concerned. XD (though admittedly I don't mind the flavor/taste of the faux lemon iced tea we have here) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kysen_ramses 2008-11-26 02:31 am UTC (link)
	I'm from southern Ontario and I agree with this statement. (I'm reading this thread going 'Unsweetened tea? Seriously? Where can I get some!') (Reply to this)(Parent)

panthea
2008-11-27 02:22 pm UTC (link)

Oh, genuine sweet tea is a completely different animal altogether. It's just tea and sugar (or maybe syrup?), and my middle school chemistry teacher in Georgia used it as an example of super... something? Supersaturation? Fuck, I forget what the word is, but basically the tea is heated to absorb more sugar than it could at room temperature, so it is sweet.

It's really very regionally specific. That's one of the very few things I missed when we left Georgia: real sweet tea.

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