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Posted on 10/31/20 at 8:31 pm to
Posted by ELLSSUU
Member since Jan 2005
8147 posts
Posted on 10/31/20 at 8:31 pm to
Sweet with Lemonade added to it as GOD intended -- Louisiana
Posted by Meticulese
NeLa
Member since Jul 2020
748 posts
Posted on 10/31/20 at 10:15 pm to
Unsweet - Louisiana
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
151509 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 12:17 am to
Sweet

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Unsweet
Posted by andouille
A table near a waiter.
Member since Dec 2004
11728 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 8:40 am to
Unsweet - Louisiana

The problem with sweet tea is that it's too damned sweet. I'll add my own thanks you.
Posted by LSUZombie
A Cemetery Near You
Member since Apr 2008
29739 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 9:38 am to
Unsweet - Louisiana

I’ve never liked sweet tea and always find it to be so sweet I usually need water after to get the sugar taste out of my mouth. It also annoys the hell out of me how the default tea option is “sweet.”
Posted by Big Chipper
Charlotte, NC
Member since Sep 2008
2984 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 9:43 am to
Grew up in Metairie and Lafayette. Always drank tea unsweetened. Moved to Charlotte when I was 17 and tried sweet tea for the first time...it was nasty. Though over the years, I've gotten to where I can drink it either way.
Posted by TigerFanatic99
South Bend, Indiana
Member since Jan 2007
36397 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 12:40 pm to
Sweet, Indiana. Lived in a until I was about 25 though. Only been here about 12 years.
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
10247 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 12:57 pm to
Alton Brown, in "Feasting on Asphalt", came to New Orleans and since New Orleans is in the South, hew assumed the tea would be sweet. It was not.

I don't know if it's a NOLA thing or not, but I'm from NOLA, and I drink it unsweetened. I view it as an advantage because you really get to taste the different variations off teas.
Posted by Darla Hood
Near that place by that other place
Member since Aug 2012
14108 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 2:41 pm to
I think all over south Louisiana you can choose between sweetened or unsweetened tea. Another way that we’re a unique part of the south. Visitors from all over are usually pleasantly surprised, unless they’re from a sweet tea state.
Posted by Pintail
Member since Nov 2011
12160 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 2:48 pm to
Unsweet. Too many places like to make is sugar water with a splash of tea and ruined me.
Posted by rebel cat
Member since Mar 2020
1565 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 4:27 pm to
Unsweetened tea has no taste? Sweet is a no brainer you live in the south. It’s custom.
Posted by ClampClampington
Nebraska
Member since Jun 2017
4051 posts
Posted on 11/1/20 at 11:25 pm to
Unsweet is my favorite drink in the world, sweet tea is probably my least favorite. It is terrible. Probably influenced by my first job at McDonald's when I turned 16 and had to brew some of their sweet tea. I think they changed it since then, literally would dump a 7 lb bag of sugar into the sweet tea container and mix for 5 minutes. I think a regular drink had 80 grams of sugar.

Fricken disgusting.
Posted by Hat Tricks
Member since Oct 2003
28973 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 6:55 am to
Most restaurant tea is obnoxiously sweet so half sweet half unsweet for me.

If there is lemonade available 1/3 lemonade, 1/3 sweet, 1/3 unsweet.
This post was edited on 11/2/20 at 1:58 pm
Posted by greenwave
Member since Oct 2011
3879 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 9:21 am to
Unsweet - Alabama.

Cut out soft drinks, and added sugars a while back. Everything is too sweet now.
Posted by Pintail
Member since Nov 2011
12160 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 11:06 am to
quote:

I think they changed it since then, literally would dump a 7 lb bag of sugar into the sweet tea container and mix for 5 minutes. I think a regular drink had 80 grams of sugar.

Fricken disgusting.


Yep. I think it was Canes sweet tea that did it for me. Way too much sugar for one drink.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20357 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 11:38 am to
Unsweetened-------La.


I've had sweet tea so sweet it was almost like drinking syrup, frick that!!!!!!
Posted by Tidemeister
Member since May 2016
1234 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 11:44 am to
sweetened tea (with sugar) = candy bar in a glass. Road to diabetes, just like any regular consumption of added sugars. But I do partake a glass now and then, but usually stay with unsweetened and add couple packets of Splenda. I also like to keep a bottle or two at home of Lipton Citrus Diet.
Posted by auzach91
Marietta, GA
Member since Jan 2009
41488 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 11:51 am to
Sweet- Georgia

Don’t drink it but maybe 4-5 times a year now though. Growing up used to drink it and kool aid more than water
This post was edited on 11/2/20 at 11:52 am
Posted by Haydo
DTX
Member since Jul 2011
3005 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 11:56 am to
unsweet with lemon - TX
Posted by SSpaniel
Germantown
Member since Feb 2013
29658 posts
Posted on 11/2/20 at 12:23 pm to
Milo's no calorie sweet. Tennessee
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