I think the most important part of making GOOD sweet tea is adding the sugar while it's hot. You can't just add sugar to iced tea and expect it to turn out quite right.

@goodorusty

3 жыл бұрын

You are right about that. I've ordered sweet tea at times at a sit-down restaurant and they'll usually have iced unsweet tea with accompanying sugar packets. Might as well through it down the drain.

@Conner._.Anderson

3 жыл бұрын

You put sugar in the picture then add boiling hot black tea stir until all sugar is dissolved and then add in the water and stir again.

@jbrisby

2 жыл бұрын

Sweat tea is something I will definitely not be trying.

@effveekay604

2 жыл бұрын

And use a lot of sweat!

@UmatsuObossa

2 жыл бұрын

YES! Preferably the sugar should go into the water BEFORE the steeped tea

He sure scarfed it down for it being "not bad."

@BradyPostma

4 жыл бұрын

British understatement.

@vickystanley8853

4 жыл бұрын

In S,E, Ar., most drink ice tea, every day..with varying degrees of sweetness.

@grassfedmilkmomma

4 жыл бұрын

Thats how the addiction starts

@fionagregory8078

4 жыл бұрын

The only tea that is proper is Tetley's.

@lipby

4 жыл бұрын

"Scarfed"? From PA?

Drink only on special occasions, Laughs in southern, we have it at lunch and dinner.

@paulad.patterson4732

3 жыл бұрын

As a Georgian, I drink it for breakfast, dinner and supper.

@pamellamitchell2380

3 жыл бұрын

And of course, at breakfast.

@dahlia3307

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Always a pitcher in my fridge

@JessacaRedd

3 жыл бұрын

Lol as a Texan, it’s sweet tea all day!

@t-ri2582

3 жыл бұрын

And breakfast and supper

I'm a southerner who had to give up sweet tea because of my amazing ability to produce large kidney stones. I had know idea tea contributed to kidney stone formation. But several doctors told me it was the #1 cause of stones in the south and the reason the South is called the Stone-Belt. I sure do miss sweet tea but having stones as big as marbles are PAINFUL AF!!!

@bradleyheck7204

Жыл бұрын

Lemonade (the real, cloudy home-made stuff) breaks kidney stones up and keeps them from forming. Maybe try some Arnold Palmers in Summer?

@debbielewis7341

10 ай бұрын

Milk causes kidney stones as well

@miamilburn8583

10 ай бұрын

If you look up foods that prevent kidney stones, you will learn that bananas prevent the chemicals in your kidneys from forming stones. There are several foods that will help prevent those

@bryanspindle4455

9 ай бұрын

I don't like overly sweet syrupy tea. I like it just sweet enough to take away the bitterness.

@Twerkulies

7 ай бұрын

Anything high in sugar, more commonly drinks, can cause kidney stones. And sweet tea often has more sugar in it then most sodas.

English: I don't get iced sweet tea. American: Experience 100 degree heat, with 100% humidity, and you will suddenly love it.

@mooncatandberyl5372

3 жыл бұрын

where i live in the uk its been 38 degrees centigrade, thats about 100 degrees farenheight, and humidity in the UK in the summer is always high, and our homes and shops don't have any air conditioning, try being in this heat without the air conditioning that you are fortunate enough to have, especially jam packed on public transport. also where i live winter temperatures can reach as low as minus 20 degrees centigrade, although that is rare. i make my own version of ice tea with berry flavour tea bags, and boiling water which cools and ends up in the fridge, as i hate our british hot tea, yes a british person that hates british tea, ice tea is not available here like it is for you, i am jealous, i would love it, if it were available.

@greyfox78569

3 жыл бұрын

@@paxmanjp2765 Some places 9-12 months.

@dpwellman

3 жыл бұрын

@@paxmanjp2765 Two years ago, I kept track: Triple digit heat index from April 27 to September 21. People not from the southeast can't fathom it: It's not the heat, it's the humidity. If it rains, even worse-- just turns into steam. But I wouldn't trade it. Far enough north we get all the seasons, but far enough south to not have to deal with too much winter... Speaking of which, that's another thing north people don't get about winter in the south: sleet and ice storms (kind of how we southerners don't get what's so bad about driving in the rain in Southern California).

@Jaxnay219

3 жыл бұрын

Paxmanjp in Alabama it’s either Hot the whole year or cold! There’s no in between 🤣🤣🤣

@Jaxnay219

3 жыл бұрын

David Wellman I was born in Illinois (like 30 minutes from good ole Chicago aka the Windy City) and raised in Alabama (major humidity and rain here lol!) so the extreme heat and cold never really phase me since I experienced both for awhile! That’s also why my mom is a pro at driving in rain and snow 😂😂😂😂

As long as you don’t drink it every day? Being from Georgia I consider that to be blasphemy!

@ucns

4 жыл бұрын

agree am also from Ga.

@meredithchapman2009

4 жыл бұрын

Agree as well. Georgia gal here.

@revnook

4 жыл бұрын

Gallon a day keeps the doctor away.

@CurmudgeonExtraordinaire

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but I am unlikely to have iced tea with breakfast... For breakfast, coffee... Hot tea just seems *wrong*...

@aaronrobertson8334

4 жыл бұрын

@Phillip Aubin nah

I remember the first time I explained iced tea to my British friend, she was horrified, but then tried it and loved it, then got her grandpa to try it who ended up getting drunk because he kept putting bourbon in it 😂

@teressacooks7928

3 жыл бұрын

Grandpa!!! Oh my 😆

@drew3250

3 жыл бұрын

I use to order a large sweet tea from McDonald's, no ice, drink a quarter of it, then add Jameson till it was back to the full spot. Stir it with the straw a little and kill it. Ah, lunch breaks at Home Depot.

@omniXenderman

3 жыл бұрын

@@drew3250 Jaeger meister and sweet tea pair well, but on break at work I drink a four Loko 😂

@drew3250

3 жыл бұрын

@@omniXenderman can't do Jaeger anymore. Too many in one night. Ruined me forever. 13 jaegerbombs, 4 O-bombs, 5 tequila shots and 6 beers in 3 hours. I was directing traffic on a one way street that night. Cops were pissed.

@omniXenderman

3 жыл бұрын

@@drew3250 look up a song called I can't drink cider any more from Thomas Benjamin wild esquire. 😂

Being from Louisiana, I grew up on sweet tea and pretty much drank it everyday. And, as I’ve gotten older, and traveled quite a bit, I have learned to always have sweetener packets on me whenever I leave my house, especially when I travel. No matter where I go, the tea is not going to be sweet enough so I always try to be prepared.

@shalakabooyaka1480

11 ай бұрын

Yea, it sucks getting "sweet tea" and it tastes like a sugar packet may have farted near the glass. No, no, pour that sugar in.

@Goodish_night

9 ай бұрын

It's like the opposite at southern Chinese restaurants and Hardee's for some reason. It's like tea flavored sugar syrup. But yeah anywhere past Tennessee and I'd be carrying sweetners to

In the South, sweet tea is a daily drink for a lot of people (multiple times a day for some).

@devandestudios128

4 жыл бұрын

As a Southerner, I will attest to the fact that sweet tea is consumed on the daily by many many folks. In summer months, I pretty much only drink coffee in the morning and sweet tea throughout the rest of the day with an occasional Pepsi. And by "throughout the rest of the day", I mean I go through about three or four gallons a day, just me.

@gen.washington1893

4 жыл бұрын

@@devandestudios128 same here, from the Lone star state. No Pepsi for me though.

@harding0010

4 жыл бұрын

Im having some right now with breakfast.

@lVlegabyte

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, my family brew a gallon a day. -A Texan

@kztrekz3329

4 жыл бұрын

@@devandestudios128 as a southerner you drink Pepsi? As a southerner I ask what flavor Coke you want. If you want "cola" flavored Coke you get a co-cola

"it isnt that bad" *proceeds to demolish 3/4 of the glass*

@robinchesterfield42

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I noticed that while she was talking, instead of taking one drink and then being like "Bleck!" he just...kept...drinking it. XD

@scotttaylor7146

3 жыл бұрын

Classic British Understatement.

@epowell4211

3 жыл бұрын

and his eyes - you could see the sugary goodness + caffeine going to work lol

@pixiepianoplayer114

3 жыл бұрын

" not THAT bad " is high Saxon praise. Trust me. I'm Irish.

I remember back in 1956 my family (we live in Kentucky) visited my Aunt and Uncle who lived in Maine. We stopped at a restaurant in Maine and my father asked for ice tea. The waitress looked at him like he was from another planet. She asked him what that was-they didn’t have ice tea. She was very interested though, and asked how to make it. My dad, innocently answered, make hot tea and add lots and lots of sugar and then add ice

My family iced tea recipe is lightly sweetened, but not “sweet tea.” But we’re New Jersey Neapolitans. The first thing I learned when I moved to Texas was to specify Unsweet tea.

I live in Georgia. We drink sweet tea all day, every day, all year round.

@lauraandrews1676

3 жыл бұрын

That's about the shape of it 😂

@ethanjohnson1614

3 жыл бұрын

Same here in tennessee

@jonnycando

3 жыл бұрын

@@ethanjohnson1614 yep Virginia too but for some weird reason Kentucky is not so keen on it....

@crazzyblueeyes83

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonnycando kentucky what? I live in Kentucky and all the Kentucky ends I've ever met love sweet tea

@jonnycando

3 жыл бұрын

@@crazzyblueeyes83 when i was living near Prestonsburg, Jerry’s restaurant served unsweet and acted appalled anyone would want sweet...though they did offer me sugar in packets😦

Being a Kentuckian Sweet tea is at every family dinner table. I and a lot of people hate lemon in my sweet tea.

@tracimackhouse1147

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Sweet tea has always been in my fridge and drank daily. I don't care for lemon with it. It's my grandson's favorite drink, although he wants extra sweet, "freshly made" tea. Meaning, he prefers it warm over chilled, but will drink both.

@dustinbailey9644

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t mind lemon, but I’m not adding it myself.

@kateofone

4 жыл бұрын

I love sweet tea then I discovered iced americanos with extra espresso

@moonshadow--1207

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet tea extra dark, no lemon. Lemonade lots of sugar. Both super cold.

@VioletEnds

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Lemon in sweet tea is blasphemous

I’m glad to see you trying our southern sweet tea. I would be lost without it. A great diuretic and so refreshing on a hot day. Try Luzianne tea if Lipton isn’t to your liking. Each has a distinct taste.

Nevermind Sweet Tea- The Arnold Palmer is where it’s at You can customize, mix and match any variety of unsweetened iced tea with any flavor of lemonade for the perfect refreshing beverage Personally my tea can’t JUST be sweet... Gotta be sweet with fruit flavoring too

@Parker-930

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! It’s much better than Sweet Tea.

@Cent4man

3 жыл бұрын

@@Parker-930:::::::clutching my southern pearls with a look of shock & horror on my southern Belle face:::::::::: oh lawdy! I can't believe you said anything was better than sweet tea! My granny is rolling in her grave!

@Parker-930

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cent4man 🤣😂😅 ❤️

@josetteandres

10 күн бұрын

Arnold Palmers are really good. Love a classic half black tea with half lemonade or half strawberry lemonade.

Growing up in Louisiana, sweet tea was the standard drink served at the family dinner table, including Christmas and Thanksgiving.

@kro8592

4 жыл бұрын

Usually when sweet tea isn't available, is when depression has struck a whole household/family. At least in my experience growing up. Also from Louisiana.

@InsideJobUSSS

4 жыл бұрын

Hi from Lafayette and yes sweet tea is nectar of the gods.

@jade-qw1hi

4 жыл бұрын

I've lived right outside of New Orleans my entire life and I second this statement

@SeesThings

4 жыл бұрын

As a kid, iced tea was cheaper than milk and we couldn't afford soda. It was tea or water out of faucet. As a teen there was nothing like chugging a glass of iced tea after mowing the lawn (humid summers in Maryland with no a/c back then).

@allisonyoung4007

4 жыл бұрын

Grew up in Bama, lived in GA, now FL. It's a staple y'all!😉✌

Refrigerate overnight??? I’ve never known anyone to actually be patient enough to let it sit that long without consuming....

@ShadoeLandman

4 жыл бұрын

You make extra for now and chill the rest for later :D

@TruthMercyBaptist

3 жыл бұрын

It's much better after a night in the fridge. I don't really like it fresh. It has a whole different flavor.

@krich8803

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah mine doesn't last that long. I'll drink it when it's still warm.

@GeckoHiker

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's what the ice is for!

@novaiscool1

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly with the amount of sugar in mine unless drank within a very short period of time you end up with a nice syrup.

I'm from the north but now live in the south. Sweet tea in each if these regions is definitely NOT the same! When I moved to the south I was SHOCKED how sweet it was. I now ask for half and half...half unsweetened, half sweetened...perfect!

@jaysilver9193

2 ай бұрын

I'm from New Jersey, and my mom made it sweeter than the recipe given here.

I'm from America, too, and I'd never even *heard* of "sweet tea" until my first trip south of the Mason-Dixon line. Now I've just gotten into the habit of asking specifically for "unsweet tea" when I go out to a restaurant. 50/50 chance the waiter will give me that weird "what-other-kind-is-there" look, but either way I get what I'm looking for.

@petty7329

2 жыл бұрын

unsweet tea taste like used bath water

@jeepstergal4043

2 жыл бұрын

@@petty7329 you would know this how....?

@jeepstergal4043

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from "up north" as well, and have developed the habit of requesting UNsweet tea. If someone wants to drink sweet tea, God bless 'em. Just don't give me the hairy eyeball when I order unsweetened tea

@willp.8120

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeepstergal4043 Unsweet tea might as well be like taking a stick and letting it sit in a cup of water all day and then drinking it. It's about as flavorful. Might as well take some decaying leaves from your yard and crush them up and put it in water and let it seep. The bland taste probably wouldn't be far off.

@edwarddore7617

Жыл бұрын

When we went down South, my wife and I would mix half sweet and half unsweetened, it was perfect then.

"An Englishman who does not like tea." Isn't that the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse? 🤣

@khathaway414

4 жыл бұрын

No it is just rarer that a Unicorn.

@Hrafnskald

4 жыл бұрын

5th column of the Apocalypse, Good Omens style :)

@danielleporter1829

4 жыл бұрын

@Scrapyard Ape I'm American who loves tea and I drink enough to make up for Laurence not caring for it.

@elizabethwilcox6490

4 жыл бұрын

That's odd

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

It seems 2020's now collected all of the horsemen, everyone: War, Plague, Famine, Conquest, and An Englishman Who Doesn't Like Tea.

Them: “I wouldn’t drink it every day” My Momma: “ I made 3 extra jugs of tea when I heard you were headed home”

@amybagnall6097

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like my late Mom. She was the best.

@happycook6737

3 жыл бұрын

Please give your mom a big kiss and hug. I miss my mom so much and wish she were still alive. 🤗

@goldilox369

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely my grandma. After every church dinner or social, we always at least 2/5 jugs of tea leftover. Typically one sweet and the one unsweet tea grandma made to be nice. Lol. 😂

@happycook6737

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldilox369 Grandma tea is the best! Very kind of her to make unsweetened too.

She said 1 cup of sugar per gallon! Lol. Come to Alabama where 1.5 cups to 2 cups is the normal

@Saezimmerman

3 жыл бұрын

My aunt was from Alabama. As a Texan, I was stunned to see the layer of undissolved sugar in the bottom of the pitcher. :-)

@Bette_Fontenot

3 жыл бұрын

Y'all measure the sugar?! -North Carolina

@marccrawford2764

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. I wrote it out for our northern viewers. Its basically 5 seconds of pouring from a 5 lb bag, or 2 hand fills and 1 hand full. A hand full is about half a cup

@Bette_Fontenot

3 жыл бұрын

@@marccrawford2764, I figured LOL The further South I've traveled, the sweeter the tea seems to get! I just knew Alabama wasn't down there with measurin' cups!

@Lillypop93

3 жыл бұрын

Yep I'm from Louisiana and we do 1 1/2-2 cups sugar too

"If you add sugar to something, yes it'll taste better." WELCOME TO AMERICA, ENJOY YOUR STAY.

@skellymom

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, same goes for salt here in 'Merica ❤️

@jamesbancroft2467

4 жыл бұрын

except putting it directly in water... that tastes terrible

@johnalden5821

4 жыл бұрын

Right. He finally figured it out.

@Heavywall70

4 жыл бұрын

The three food groups are In no specific order Sugar Salt And Fat If you can get them all in one food stuff item you have achieved “foodvana” Example: BBQ

@markgibson8358

4 жыл бұрын

This Tennessee boy has been making it with Splenda since Splenda was available. My southern ass craves the sweet but I don’t eat sugar at all. Prefer Lipton teabags to Tetley.

Speaking as Laurence’s mum,we never drank tea when Laurence was growing up.

@susanbrown5080

4 жыл бұрын

That was our family’s worst secret.

@deborahdanhauer8525

4 жыл бұрын

@@susanbrown5080 LOL!😊 if that's the worst you've done, you are an angel by most standards.

@johnmarcinko2484

4 жыл бұрын

...and somehow he turned out okay...

@susanbrown5080

4 жыл бұрын

John Marcinko He can still make me laugh.

@TuFargon54

4 жыл бұрын

@@susanbrown5080 That's sweet ♡♡♡ I had a mumsy like you. The sweetest person EVER in my life 🤩😍😘

"That should be good for my 'sturdy British teeth." No man, stop it!🤣🤣🤣

Yeah I've lived here for over 70 years and only tried Sweet Tea once...never again.

I love how he flat out chugged that glass of tea down in no time.

@brimus5

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed the same thing... Lol

@alexlawson4173

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair it was pretty small glass. But yeah, sugary drinks are generally pretty easy to down.

Growing up in the south "Normal tea" is sweet tea.

@dpwellman

3 жыл бұрын

"We have both kinds: with lemon or without"

@Jaxnay219

3 жыл бұрын

Daniel Mcleod yep pretty much! If you go to a restaurant down here, all you have to say is “I would like some tea please” and they instantly know you mean sweet tea😂 but then again I end up saying “sweet tea” anyways cause I love both hot and cold tea.

@GeckoHiker

3 жыл бұрын

YES, what you said! Ice tea IS sweet tea. Don't go to Indiana and ask for it unsweetened because they'll put diet sweetener in it. Ugh!

@toomanyaccounts

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jaxnay219 no you have to say you unsweeted tea.

I’m from north Georgia, family’s been in Appalachia since we came over to the states, roughly the late 1600’s. My family uses *exclusively* Luzianne tea bags for sweet tea lol and absolutely no lemon. I’m sure every southerner has a dedicated way of making sweet tea that must not be altered 😂 we love our tea what can I say

Born and raised Texan here and sweet tea was a mandatory every-day drink in my family in the summer. Esp when my aunt had 5 kids of her own, then babysat me for my single mom and then all our friends coming over. Aunt would make it by the batch. Often having one brew on the stove and another being "sun brewed". Also mandatory- Along with hours of in the fridge, it is brewed not that instant powder. And add sugar when water is hot, not later or you'd get that grainy texture to the tea. I grew up drinking sweet tea. It's only now that I'm in my 50s that I'm trying hot teas brewed for single cups, not an entire pitcher like sweet tea is.

I grew up in Arizona and there I was introduced to the concept of "Sun Tea". Take a clear glass jug, fill it with cold water, put in tea bags and set in the direct sun for few hours. Then chill or pour over lots of ice cubes.

@JGW845

4 жыл бұрын

The same result can be achieved using room temp water without exposure to the sun. The advantage to both methods is the tea will not turn cloudy when stored in the 'fridge. Using boiling water to make tea extracts substances which are insoluble at cold temperature and precipitate out when the tea is refrigerated resulting in "cloudy" tea.

@hotwax9376

4 жыл бұрын

I live in Michigan and have seen this done by family members here as well.

@samcantorcan2246

4 жыл бұрын

Sun Tea is something I grew up with.

@annheath7039

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes I do that too

@albinorhino8732

4 жыл бұрын

Originally from Colorado and grew up on sun tea. Lived in the South most of my life. It doesn't come close to sweet tea!

Sweet tea, is the "House wine of the South".

We grew up drinking sweet tea. We called it "iced tea" or just "tea". My mother also made it with one cup of sugar to one gallon of tea, so good on you, darlin'. That's sort of the official appropriate sweetness that has been accepted from way back, across The South. This was our "go to" beverage when I was growing up, not soda pops! Soda pops or "cold drinks" as we called them were FAR too expensive to drink all day long as many tend to do today. And pops are bad for you, whereas tea, an herb, has things in it that are actually VERY good for you. As testimony -- my father lived into his 80s and my mother, her 90s! And none of us suffered serious health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, etc.! And we were all THIN, because we stayed busy doing something EVERY day!! Great video, Laurence and Tara!!! You're making good strides towards getting your 'Honorary Southerner Badge'!!!

I’m from Mississippi and grew up on sweet tea. Mom also used to make cherry limeade tea for special occasions; 3 family sized tea bags brewed in 6 cups of boiling water, 1 can of frozen condensed limeade and about half a cup (or more) of grenadine (which is a liquor mixer). No need to add sugar because the limeade and grenadine are already sweet. Mix together in a gallon pitcher and add ice to top of pitcher. Enjoy!

@nathanhill9208

Жыл бұрын

Can't wait to try this

@kathybouziane5269

10 ай бұрын

Wow does that sound DELICIOUS !

No lemon in tea and 2 cups of sugar per gallon. -Mississippi

@zetsumeinaito

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, that's how I did it till I was 30ish. My taste changed and I had to tone down the sugar.

@stephanieoliver8634

3 жыл бұрын

Michigan here. I make "sweet tea" all summer. It can be made by the glass. Instructions:. Make yourself a cuppa hot tea. While my electric kettle get hot enough, I have a quart size mason jar ready to add my full tray ice cubes. When the water is ready make your cup of tea. I use Lipton or Luzianne brand. Then put sugar in the hot tea to your taste. Then pour the hot sweet liquid gold into the iced mason jar. Make your hot tea a little strong because the hot tea will melt the ice and water it down some, so up the strength of your tea in this case. Stir your ice cubes and tea, then enjoy. This is when I'm the only one that wants iced tea or sweet tea. It's delicious. Of course when we have it with a meal I make a pitcher of it.

If your grandpa from West Virginia had a sweet tea recipe, he was probably drinking it every single day.

@agresticumbra

4 жыл бұрын

With how rampant diabetes is in the south & southeast, it would be prudent to reconsider.

@cruellad407

4 жыл бұрын

All day

@mylt1z28

4 жыл бұрын

@@agresticumbra thats not how diabetes works. It would be more prudent to learn that before telling people to reconsider anything.

@lamelama22

4 жыл бұрын

@@mylt1z28 Actually that is pretty much exactly how type 2 diabetes works... take in way too much sugar and don't get enough exercise... that's how you get it, which is what they were referring to; and yes, diabetes is rampant across the USA and much worse in the south/southeast - everything they said was correct. You're right about type 1 diabetes though, that's genetic and there's pretty much nothing you can do about that except take your insulin, but it's pretty rare compared to type 2.

@TracyKMainwaring

4 жыл бұрын

@@lamelama22 there seems to be some connection with infection and T1D. As well as insulin, it's important for them to also eat low carb. No wonder T2D is so rampant when people don't know it's entirely diet related and preventable

I am in the south. Georgia, and I put two cups of sugar per gallon in my iced tea, I make it in my coffee pot using ten tea bags. I buy great value brand tea and I am not picky about the brand. I mostly use black tea or orange pekoe, I walk around with a glass of tea all day long in the summer.

My family is from south Georgia and Alabama and we would never, ever put lemon in our sweet tea. I love lemonade but I tried lemon in my tea once and found myself gagging. By the way, I drink hot tea with sugar or honey without milk too.

@anij8226

3 жыл бұрын

Savannah, GA here and lemon can absolutely be put in sweet tea. It's a personal choice. Also, very popular is mixing equal parts unsweetened tea and lemonade, Half & Half Tea. (A certain golfer was very fond of the drink.)

@petty7329

2 жыл бұрын

@@anij8226 No. I'm from Texas, but that doesnt change the fact that sour does not go with sweet tea. Nobody does that here because we are normal people. 🤠

@matthewcarter2683

2 жыл бұрын

Macon Ga area here, I definitely add lemon slices to my tea on occasion.

@willp.8120

2 жыл бұрын

@@petty7329 Lemon sweet tea is very popular in the southeast. Some brew the lemon with it. Others will get lemon slices and squeeze the juice in the tea. Still others will simply put a lemon wedge in the glass.

@anij8226

2 жыл бұрын

@@petty7329 No one has ever called Savannah, GA “normal”. 😉

"a cup of sugar per gallon" nononononononono that isn't southern sweet darling. if your insulin doesn't go into diabetic shock upon your first sip it's not southern sweet.

@joyfulchristina

4 жыл бұрын

I wanted to laugh at her when she said that. To be fair, I was born in GA and moved to WV. Although I never considered WV to truly be southern (to much snow for that), it is country. Her’s is more like country tea. That is my term for it. Many people in WV do know how to make true southern tea there, but many make it less sweet and think it is the same.

@danagray9709

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, she needs to double her sugar content.

@danagray9709

4 жыл бұрын

@@joyfulchristina I'm from Georgia. I can confirm that we also make our sweet tea extremely sweet. Sorry you weren't able to stick around to discover it for yourself!

@smokeydoke100

4 жыл бұрын

One cup per gallon is half of what you make Kool Aid with, so you've got that going for you.

@calvinroyals6463

4 жыл бұрын

My wife is from New Jersey she says the way I make my tea is too sweet. She should have tried my Grandma's.

As a Southerner myself I love Sweet Tea, however, everytime I go up North they make it wrong by putting the sugar in the drink when they serve it to you instead of putting the sugar in the tea when it just gets done boiling on the stove so that the sugar can melt.

@Catbytes

4 жыл бұрын

I ran into that too. I sat there looking at the glass with the sugar piled at the bottom. I tried stirring and drinking it quick, but it just didn't work, my girlfriend's parent's tea. I changed girlfriends... and that one's mom was an awesome pancake chef.

@SuprousOxide

4 жыл бұрын

That's because you're not actually supposed to add sugar to it, it's not "Sweet Tea", it's "Iced Tea". The sugar packets are just a concession to people who want to drink it wrong.

@dugowt9243

4 жыл бұрын

As usual, the southerners have to be arrogant pricks. Just because it's not made "your way" doesn't mean it's wrong. Different people have different tastes. I know you southerners have big problems tolerating those who are different than you but maybe you should learn.

@robclark3095

4 жыл бұрын

How to make Southern Sweet Tea. 1- boil water. 2- add lots of sugar, the more the better. 3- forget about adding any tea. 4- cool and serve.

@AC-gb7do

4 жыл бұрын

Dugowt Let’s not be that guy in the threads. I’m from the South and I can deal with things and people that are different from me just fine, and I’m pretty sure that a lot of people down South would also say they can be just fine with different things and people as well. We all do not carry weapons, we all don’t have confederate flags, we all don’t think “the South shall rise again”, wear hoods and burn crosses or any other ridiculous stereotype made about us either.

Growing up in Texas, we had sweet iced tea for dinner every single night with our dinner.

I was most surprised to learn she considers West Virginia in the South.

@emeralctygrl

3 жыл бұрын

It is a southern state.

@richardkilburn2253

3 жыл бұрын

Uh, no. It isn’t.

@emeralctygrl

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardkilburn2253 google it. It is not Deep South but it is a southern state.

@richardkilburn2253

3 жыл бұрын

@@emeralctygrl Based upon what definition? In the south, we typically refer to "southern" states as those that fought as part of the confederacy during the civil war. As West Virginia was literally formed out of Virginia to AVOID being part of the south and in order to REMAIN a part of the union, very few southerners accept West Virginia as a southern state. It may be rural or country, but it is not southern.

@volzman2172

3 жыл бұрын

I consider it a little of both north and south.

"Well that should be good for my sturdy British teeth." I had to paused the video, and left the room laughing after you said that! 😂😂

I live in Georgia and when eating out ask for half sweet tea and half unsweetened. To me, pure unadulterated southern sweet tea is way too sweet. Some restaurants have more moderately sweetened tea, but virtually everyone...including fast food places where you serve your own drinks, carry unsweetened as well as sweet.

@Rammstein0963.

4 жыл бұрын

There's a reason for that, it's because ice waters sweet drinks down, the increased sugar is to offset that.

@rekietabeatslc9980

4 жыл бұрын

I've never gotten an iced tea in the south that wasn't extremely sweet. Ok occasionally on a brutally hot day-but FAR sweeter than I'd make it at home.

@ChrisinOSMS

4 жыл бұрын

Agree, that ratio is more like 2 cups of sugar/ gallon.

@MsCatstaff

4 жыл бұрын

As someone who once worked in fast food in Atlanta, I can confirm that we carried unsweet as well as sweet tea. That said, both versions arrived in-store the same way all the drinks did - in the form of large boxed 5 gallon bags of concentrate. Punch the perforations out of the carton to access the screw-cap on the bag, and attach to the corresponding hose for the drinks dispenser, which would then dispense the concentrate along with water/carbonated water into the cups. The hose attachment for the sweet tea was always one of the stickiest in the place, right up there with the ones for the slushies. The other big problem was the sweet tea carton and the unsweet tea carton looked way too much alike so it was easy to confuse them, especially if whoever was changing them was in a hurry. We regularly got complaints that customers got the wrong tea out of whichever dispenser. (This was years ago, well before Covid shut down self-serve drinks stations.)

@susanparilis7756

4 жыл бұрын

I make it with half the amount of sugar that Tara recommends. Just right for us.

This is definitely a different recipe than I drink as a child in Texas. We do not use any lemon and double the amount of sugar per gallon. We also would make the tea and put ice cubes in to drink it immediately.

Let me say that I absolutely love your channel and adore you both. Here in the South we have been drinking sweet tea since the 1700's. I live in Summerville, SC which is the birthplace of sweet tea. We have been drinking the same type of tea since1888, when Dr. Charles Shepard founded the Pinehurst Tea Plantation in Summerville, SC. Also White tea, Green Tea, and black tea are not different plants; they all are made from the same species of tea shrub, the difference is in the life stage of the leaf and how it's processed. We would love for Y'all to come down and visit the Charleston Tea Garden on beautiful Wadmalaw Island and try the Souths Original USA grown tea known as American Classic.

@kathleenstoin671

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Summerville for several years, and I have always missed it terribly. Especially in spring, when the azaleas are blooming. There used to be a white dogwood with a wisteria vine growing up in it. When they bloomed at the same time, it was a breathtaking sight!I grew up in Aiken, and learned to make proper sweet tea from my mother. I still make it the exact same way. Luzianne is best, in my opinion, but I have recently discovered PGTips, a British tea brand.

Sweet tea is the house wine of the south.

@gingerelainefrodsham831

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe I need to move South. So many people on the west coast love wine, but I can't stand it, and much prefer sweet tea! 😋

@cocotaveras8975

4 жыл бұрын

In the North, we often drink unsweetened iced tea a lot! I know I sure do!

@kathy2trips

4 жыл бұрын

@@cocotaveras8975 Only when dieting. But I like hot sweet tea, too. Don't judge

@sinjun1973

4 жыл бұрын

I have never seen a sweet tea disappear so fast!🤣 Yes I know there's editing... Love sweet tea and sleepytime tea and tension reliever tea and gingerbread tea

@OldFashionedAF

4 жыл бұрын

@@sinjun1973 Believe it or not, that segment wasn't edited for time. He really did drink it that fast!

As a child, in the late sixties in Georgia, we had iced tea every day with our meals in the summer. I still prefer it to any soft drink, but now that I'm older, and heavier, I shun all sugar so I drink iced tea with lemon. Quite thirst quenching. And I prefer Luzianne and when I can't find that, I get Tetley. Tara, I love your hair!

@skeetersaurus6249

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I grew up in the South about the same time, too...and every supper was served with iced sweet tea (we just called it 'tea', as most everything else was sacrilege, anyhow). We did Lipton tea bags...mother had a single old 'tea pot' (1.2 gallons) that it was SOLELY dedicated to making 'tea, and nothing but tea' (seems that to make tea in something, will carry tea over to other foods...and vice versa, well-washed in-between or not...so DEDICATED TEA POT). Old and retired now, I live in the Desert Southwest...and it gives a WHOLE NEW MEANING to 'sun tea', too...where with 110-F temps and 11-15 UV, you can 'brew a pot of tea' in an hour or so!

@dayeti6794

4 жыл бұрын

As a kid I liked sugar in iced tea. Can’t tolerate it in tea any more. Love iced tea though.

@petty7329

2 жыл бұрын

I didnt hear about lemon in sweet tea until i started looking at how other states did it, and that my grandfather did it. In Texas we just make it with sugar.

At the end of Goodfellas, Henry Hill laments, "I ordered spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles with Ketchup". As a southerner, that's how I feel about trying to order sweet tea. Anywhere else and I'm lucky to get unsweet and a pack of sugar on the side.

@mahna_mahna

3 жыл бұрын

You can get Milo's outside the south, and it's not too bad for store bought. Raising Cane's has expanded all over the place, and they have sweet tea as well.

@dimlightbulb10

2 жыл бұрын

@@mahna_mahna I'll have to try those out, because my general experience with store bought has been like drinking tea flavored syrup. Pure Leaf has the strength right, but it's still too thick.

@mahna_mahna

2 жыл бұрын

@@dimlightbulb10 We always made our tea with one cup of sugar a gallon, and those aren't too syrupy for me. I can't stand anything that's packaged for longer storage, though. I think _real_ tea just can't last that long (as you know if you make it and it doesn't get drunk quick enough).

Informative tutorial on sweet tea. Learned something new today. THANK YOU!!!!! Carry on.....💌

Try an Arnold Palmer. A mixture of sweet tea and lemonade, usually about half and half. I usually water down my sweet tea if it is too much like syrup by adding unsweet tea to improve the taste.

@TheLibran1

4 жыл бұрын

Been doing this since I was a kid, its THE BEST.

@TheLibran1

4 жыл бұрын

Also like Rooibos Tea.

@kokofan50

4 жыл бұрын

Most fast food places that’s exactly what I do.

@namelessone3339

4 жыл бұрын

I like peach black tea mixed with limeade.

@myboyz9391

4 жыл бұрын

Drinking that right now. Lol

Southerner here. When explaining chemical saturation in a solution, my high school chemistry teacher told us that he always stirred the sugar into his tea while it was still hot. And, he knew he had enough sugar when he reached the saturation point. You didn't use enough sugar is what I'm saying. 🤣

@courtnearainey6135

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Proper (Southern) sweet tea is a supersaturated solution.

@alonespirit9923

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't the formula roughly one pound of sugar per tea bag per cup of water?

@robinrinsmith

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I thought I was only one who knew that you put the sugar in before the cool water!

@pbryant1360

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, however, with diabetes also a pandemic, we must make note. There are 201 g of sugar in a cup. Per gallon. If you use 2 cups double it, etc. here’s the clincher, that’s 50g appox per quart and 25g of sugar in a pint. We should all carbs to 180g per day. Two pints of tea sweetened with 1 cup sugar/gallon =50g or 100g if sweetened with two cups/gal. Over half the daily limit. Cutting back is as simple as refrigerating it longer using half. Still good and refreshing and you avoid the scourge of diabetes.

@thecomeric9148

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it needs at least 2 cups per gallon

I live in the south and I love sweet tea, however I have always sweetened it with simple syrup as opposed to granulated sugar.

You two are great together! Funny & entertaining

For a true southerner, sweet tea is all day, every day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner (or is that breakfast, dinner, and supper?) Non-southerners always comment on how everything seems to move slower in the south; that's because everyone has a glass of sweet tea in one hand! Enjoy your videos, y'all!

@cs-mh2dh

4 жыл бұрын

I am not a southerner, but sweet tea is everyday all year. On the coldest of winter days, hot tea (with sugar) is a replacement. Sweet tea is not just for cold tea, but honey can replace sugar for hot tea, especially when you have a cold.

@fshn4x4

4 жыл бұрын

The insulin crash may contribute to the laid back pleasantness ^_^

@jaredwilliams1173

4 жыл бұрын

As a southerner (I'm from deep east texas) nothing is better than a glass of ice cold sweet tea after working in the texas heat in the middle of the summer (it can easily get to about the lower 100s to the mid 100s in temp. In the middle of the summer)

@actuallyNo...

3 жыл бұрын

Breakfast , dinner , and Supper...finally, someone says it right. GEEZ PEOPLE...HKW HARD IS IT?! ..& it is required at all 3, plus snacks.

@blazebox71

3 жыл бұрын

Breakfast Dinner and Supper for sure

Luzianne is the brand of tea to buy for making sweet tea. I take my iced tea half and half at the restaurants when I go out. Half sweet and half unsweet. I’m a Southerner and drink this on the regular. I love hot teas, too.

@stuart.whiting

4 жыл бұрын

It's great to live in an area where you can just say "half & half" at any restaurant and everyone's on the same page

@TheGorignak

4 жыл бұрын

Some places make it too sweet or I want to pound it from heat and thirst, so I'll get it half and half. BTW, if you are in the south and want to buy it pre-made, try Milo's.

I really want to see your reaction to Komboucha! Thanks for the fun vids!!!

I grew up drinking iced tea. My mother would make a pitcher of iced tea. She would put a cup of sugar in a half gallon pitcher, hot boiling water, tea bags, some cold water and lots of ice cubes. It would taste so good on a hot summer day. My dad would take a large thermos of iced tea to work with him. He worked outside. Memories…

This video: One cup of sugar per gallon = sweet tea. Me: *laughs in Southern* Bless your hearts.

@laurahudson8210

3 жыл бұрын

I never liked sweet tea but I married a country boy from Alabama, and learned to make it. His mama use two cups sugar per gallon. I was horrified. Using Stevia, I was able to cut it all the way down to a quarter cup of sugar per gallon with a little bit of stevia. Until I went lower than that he couldn't tell the difference in taste. And, I did get his permission to do this.

@cherylann9781

3 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆😆

@Null_Experis

3 жыл бұрын

*laughs in diabetes* Bless your struggling heart.

@roxannebarton9740

3 жыл бұрын

Right! That's not sweet tea. Scrap that lemon.

@angelastewart5342

3 жыл бұрын

Sweet tea , to me is 2 cups of sugar per gallon. No lemon.

i live in southern california my mom would often make sweet tea by leaving the glass jug outside and letting it brew that way. We always call that version sun tea

@kaldo_kaldo

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, we call it sun tea in Missouri as well

@jeremygenslinger4874

3 жыл бұрын

I call that soure fermented tea and it's Disgusting but I guess if you don't know how to boil water or are too lazy go for it.

@kaldo_kaldo

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeremygenslinger4874 Wow bro, you failed at making tea and you're taking your anger out on everyone else?

@bookworm3696

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeremygenslinger4874 I'd slightly agree if it weren't hot enough outside to grill a steak in.

@zuzax1656

3 жыл бұрын

When I lived in NM, we made sun tea as well. Because the water doesn't boil, you don't 'burn' the tea, which releases the bitter oils in tea, so you get a cleaner, crisper flavor. Much more refreshing when it's 105 in the shade.

I started using green tea to make my sweet tea about 5 years ago. AND NOW I can tell people who make it their business to tell me I'm not drinking "authentic" Southern sweet tea. That they are really the ones not drinking "authentic" Southern sweet tea. 🍵🧊🧋😂

I prefer unsweetened cold brew myself, but sweet tea is definitely a Southern thing. It's the default value there, whereas in the West the default tends to be unsweetened and often sun tea or other cold brew. Either way, smooth, dark and cooler than you are is a wonderful thing anytime.

Yes I’m a big fan of what we call iced tea here in Texas. I take mine half sweet and half unsweetened, which can be made in restaurants or homes where both versions coexist from equal parts of sweetened and unsweetened tea, or simply by adding less sugar.

Sweet Tea is Kool-Aid for adults.

@mandystory4275

4 жыл бұрын

Mmmm kool aid.

@KYoss68

4 жыл бұрын

Well.. kool-aid for this adult is sweet tea with bourbon :D

@cisium1184

4 жыл бұрын

@Root 66 Kool-Aid's good. Especially Tropical Punch.

@BradyPostma

4 жыл бұрын

How many down-thumbs must this comment have to have 54 up-thumbs and still be out-ranked by another comment with only 4 up-thumbs!?

@sophiedash4026

4 жыл бұрын

Same sugar recipe lol

Now, if you had a bag of boiled peanuts to go with it....

@Catbytes

4 жыл бұрын

yes yes yes!

@bradbutcher3984

4 жыл бұрын

You'd throw up.

@waynepurcell6058

4 жыл бұрын

@@bradbutcher3984 No that's sweet tea and spaghetti. Don't ask me how I know. That was 40 years ago and I just started eating spaghetti again like ten years ago. I still can't stomach tea. That vomit episode was bad, I mean REALLY bad.

@bradbutcher3984

4 жыл бұрын

@@waynepurcell6058 spaghetti is nasty too.

@Perktube1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, a Florian thing, those peanuts.

I enjoy listening to both of you… you both have pleasant distinctive voices😊

I am a 72 y.o. Texan who has been drinking tea for most of his entire life. Until last year I had never heard the expression "sweet tea",having always known the beverage as "iced tea". It wasn't until I got to Europe and made the mistake of ordering tea that I found out not everyone is fighting Texas heat. I do not care for Lipton tea either. Almost any other brand is better. I drink Lusianne.

"Luzianne, the right tea for iced tea"

@jeanineels

4 жыл бұрын

Luzianne beats Lipton 👍

We never called it "sweet tea" just "tea" if it was unsweetened or hot, you had to specify.

@mahna_mahna

3 жыл бұрын

We called it ice tea in north Alabama.

@tampazeke4587

3 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!

@DanOKC

3 жыл бұрын

Spoken like a true southerner, but tea is without sugar just like coffee, adding anything to either is just making it soda-pop without the fizz. And yes I know you add the sugar while hot not after it has cooled down.

@tampazeke4587

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanOKC When in Rome... You're not in "Kansas" anymore Dorothy.

@tampazeke4587

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanOKC English people add milk to both tea and coffee. I don't add milk to either tea or coffee. I would that those aren't tea or coffee but milkshakes. LOL

The only place in the US where tea is grown is at the Tea Plantation on Wadmalaw Island just outside Charleston South Carolina. The tea farm was bought by Bigalow Tea company. You can visit the Tea Plantation where they have tours. You can learn how tea is grown and made. In the spring they have a festival called the First Flush. The plantation is open all year long for tours. You should come visit.

love cold sweet tea anytime summer or winter---live in NH..Thanks for your great videos enjoy them tremendously!

As a southerner, I'm from Mississippi, there is only one kind of tea (we just call it tea) which is often described as a little too sweet and a little too strong. We jokingly say the spoon should stand up in it. Lemon is never involved though, unless you are from up north. I have northern family members, New York state and Ohio, so I can sympathize. We use Luzianne bags in our house, 3 family sized should do it, for a gallon of tea. We also put closer to 2 cups of sugar per gallon, but we pour it over ice which waters it down a bit. Great video by the way, keep up the great work!

@jeremyhagen7684

4 жыл бұрын

Brett Johnson I have a coffee maker just for making tea. 1 full pot of tea, 2 cups sugar stir thoroughly then fill 1 gallon pitcher to the top with ice and stir again

@brettjohnson6807

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyhagen7684 This is exactly how my mother makes her tea, it is the correct way after all.

@rodneydavenport4646

4 жыл бұрын

Brett Johnson Brett, my mom used to make her tea with Luzianne tea bags. I’m from Atlanta so sweet tea was a mainstay at Sunday dinner after Church.

@jenniferbailey1580

4 жыл бұрын

My mother met her Southern in-laws 45 years ago as part of their honeymoon tour. One of her mothers in law (I technically had a step grandmother) had heard she liked hot tea. Being hospitable, Hazel or Marie presented her with a cup of hot water with a Luzuanne iced tea bag in it. Being fully versed in Midwestern politeness Mom drank the thing. I somehow missed the gene for enjoying any type of tea (or coffee) despite Mom’s family consuming both hot and iced (they didn’t however add much sugar; Mom asked for unsweetened while we were visiting my aunt and I remember her surprise at the 5 sweetener packets. Aunt told her that she was *obviously* a diabetic). And those were Mom’s adventures without even crossing the pond (and yes I’ve tried Southern level sweet tea. My family has despaired over my tastebuds)

@CkYAll1anc3

4 жыл бұрын

No wonder you all have diabetes

I can't speak for all southerners, but most people I know drink Luzianne brand sweet iced tea.

@tricityladytn

3 жыл бұрын

100%!

@squiresam

3 жыл бұрын

Red Diamond, at least among my family that drink tea. I can't stand the stuff myself.

@tubapoon09

3 жыл бұрын

Tetley here

@queerdor

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely

@Jaxnay219

3 жыл бұрын

Pit Wizard I’m a massive Milo’s Tea fan. If I’m buying store bought tea, that’s the only tea I’ll buy but if it’s homemade, I get the tea bags and make iced tea myself.

My Minnesota Version of Sweet Tea is add the sweet when it's Hot and I use a mix of Honey with the White Sugar, also I use a blend of Mint and White Tea.

Sweet tea! Love it. I was shocked when I went to Massachusetts in 2007 and the told me they only had sweet tea "in season". All year is in season for a nice cold sweet tea.

Just my 2 cents, Luzianne is the best for making Sweet Tea.

@robtheroadie2240

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@juliamaddox4408

4 жыл бұрын

Luzianne works, too.

@nipplecream3099

4 жыл бұрын

Luzianne is vile

@gayleeidson6724

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 👍. Luzianne is the best, and I use 2 cups of Sugar !!!! Love and sweetness from Tennessee USA ❤️, y'all !!!

@annaleabrown4588

4 жыл бұрын

@@gayleeidson6724 EXACTLY!

Sun tea, is a method we always used when making sweet tea. It gets hot enough here in TX to not have to use the stove to make it.

@ChaoticButterfly

4 жыл бұрын

I had neighbors in Missouri who made sun tea.

@robleffler6584

4 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, that's how we made it in Southern Illinois as well, let it sit in the sun and steep all day.

@TheTabbylyn

4 жыл бұрын

My mom used to make sun tea all the time, but she didn’t put that much sugar in it, so not sweet tea. She would drink plain hot black tea in the winter. Maybe a Delaware thing?

@kaldo_kaldo

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChaoticButterfly Yeah in Missouri we make a lot of sun tea. Idk why there's so much Texas circle jerk on the internet.

@pawwalker3492

3 жыл бұрын

We made sun tea on the fire escape of our apartment in Brooklyn

There is also an American tea that the native people made from the Yaupon Holly that spread to the colonial population after that Tea incident in Boston and was common in rural areas until tea bags it is having a resurgence in places like Austin Texas and is a mild tasting beverage from a plant many thought of as ornamental.

I usually do like a half sweet tea and put just a dash of honey to give it a more floral flavor and I swear by Luzianne tea bags but you gotta give them a quick rinse to help get rid of some of the tea dust. Also always store your tea in an air tight container it helps to keep it fresh.

I had sweet tea in my baby bottle. That is how true southern mamas did it xx years ago. 😁

@louchat333

4 жыл бұрын

Rebekah Johansson every night for supper growing up.

@dayeti6794

4 жыл бұрын

Still have all your own teeth? Or teaf?

@tishdyer1

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

We live on sweet tea down here in the South. We drink it several times a day and there is always a gallon of it in the refrigerator.

@TheRustyAntlers

3 жыл бұрын

SAME! I'm from NC and we know our sweet tea. Until my dad got diabetes, there was an ever present pitcher of tea in the fridge. I stopped drinking it after working in restaurants and having to make HUGE batches of it every day for years. I still respect it and can't stand hearing midwesterners bragging about their bitter version of barely sweetened tea.

@petty7329

2 жыл бұрын

Thats how we do it in Texas. Every resturaunt you go to, no matter how fancy or cheap, will have a sweet tea option on the menu. 🤠

@ii_tfnwrmarmy7564

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRustyAntlers I can confirm since i'm from North Carolina aswell, near the Triangle area.

Thanks for sharing the recipe!

Here in Arizona we make "Sun Tea" take several bags or one large bag (Lipton Family size) place in a gallon glass container filled with water, place outside in the hot Sun for a few hours bring inside and chill.

My favorite "tea" is an Arnold Palmer. Gotta love the half iced tea, half lemonade taste.

@CloudslnMyCoffee

4 жыл бұрын

AGREED

@jackiepierce1467

4 жыл бұрын

Not a fan of straight lemon in my tea. But, I do love that mix.

@tonyahancock9863

4 жыл бұрын

Those are good too.

@louchat333

4 жыл бұрын

Very good.

@gatamadriz

4 жыл бұрын

My utter favorite!

"I wouldn't drink this every day." *I would drink this every hour.*

@deniseroe5891

3 жыл бұрын

Every day all day. Louzianne

@shelleythompson-brock6412

3 жыл бұрын

Right? I go through a pitcher a day, myself, alone.

@maggiesays7827

3 жыл бұрын

It's all I drink but mine really is sweet!

@barbaramatthews4735

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, except I like "Yankee tea". I don't use sweeteners in my tea.

@t.b.gonzalez3581

3 жыл бұрын

@@barbaramatthews4735 That sounds like Japanese tea

I'm a diabetic, so i cant drink sweet tea, but some tea is so sweet, you might as well drink a bottle of kayro syrup, so unsweetened is what i drink

I'm from north Florida, born and raised. Sweet tea, or iced tea, (the same thing here), is a household staple. It's as normal as milk in everyone's fridge, everyone drinks it, morning, noon, and night. Especially in poorer households that can't always afford to have sodas on hand. It's served in every restaurant, including fast food ones. It's as neccessary as clean drinking water to the people of the deep south.

Southern Tea: Luzianne brand - Boil water, add two family-size bags, steep for 1-2 hours, add 2 cups of sugar and water to make 1-gallon. Drink all day, every day. (It's not called 'sweet', it's just "tea"...)

@user-cl5sp4ik3s

4 жыл бұрын

I love to use regular Tetley tea for sweet tea.

@stephendanley1858

4 жыл бұрын

Bingo

@TheJg2pto

4 жыл бұрын

From New Orleans. Not a big fan of sweet tea. But Luzianne, straight up, add sugar to personal taste, all day long. That way people can make it as sweet as they like.

@patrickstracener5329

4 жыл бұрын

That's EXACTLY how I make mine.

@adiarainfoster

4 жыл бұрын

When I was growing up, we called it "iced tea." That was between 30 and 40 years ago though :)

Every so often I like making Sun Tea. Put 8 tea bags in a gallon jug, fill with water, attach lid and set out in the sun for the day. Add 1 cup sugar for half-sweet and 2-3 cups for full sweet.

@ruthsaunders9507

4 жыл бұрын

I used to do that in the desert. My tea would be ready in an hour!

@chuckcartwright1328

4 жыл бұрын

True, though I go ahead and leave it into the night, so it gets a lot of latent heat from the cinderblock wall(placed for maximum exposure). It gets an almost opaque reddish black. Yum.

@elizabethbutler4649

4 жыл бұрын

Are you from the Midwest?

@Sgt_SealCluber

4 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethbutler4649 If you mean me, Florida.

@philomelodia

4 жыл бұрын

Sun tea is awesome stuff. You really want to wait for a very hot day to make it though. Direct sunlight. The kind of heat that you get in Texas or the Southwest. I don’t think it gets hot enough up north to properly make it. Anybody up north make sun tea?

Here in the Midwest on hot summer days I gotta bring atleast 2 or 3 big bottles of tea to school or I just can’t make it through the day 😂

Try the Arnold Palmer. Sweet iced tea mixed with an equal amount of tart lemonade. Especially bracing in August in Mississippi. I also like a big glass of iced sweet tea and squeeze the juice of a whole lemon or lime into it. A fine cold remedy? A mug of hot tea with lots of honey and the juice of an whole lime. It sooths the cough and the vapor opens the sinuses, the honey has some indefinable but documented health benefits, and the astringent lime freshens your mouth.

Wouldn’t drink it every day. Laughs in southern.

@peteywv_usa6703

4 жыл бұрын

Right 🤣😂

@agresticumbra

4 жыл бұрын

With how rampant diabetes is in the south & southeast, it would be prudent to reconsider.

@irisheyes6363

4 жыл бұрын

agresticumbra in my experience, they use artificial sweeteners.

@agresticumbra

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps those you know do, but no one I know who makes large batch sweet tea uses artificial sweeteners, and I can’t imagine how gross that could be. The only ones I know who use artificial sweetener in tea is in single serve teas, like from a restaurant. Not sure why do many are adverse to tea in its own. Maybe they’re using crappy tea?

@doofinator4285

4 жыл бұрын

agresticumbra The difference in diabetes rates between CA and NC is less than 2%. The only states with a drastically different rate are WV (high) and CO (low). Considering a typical soda has DOUBLE the sugar of sweet tea, I find the seemingly judgmental comment that seems to be copied and pasted several times on this thread to be laughable.

Growing up in TX, the beverage of choice in our home was Lipton sweet tea. And it was a cup of sugar per gallon of tea.

@robtheroadie2240

4 жыл бұрын

Im more of a Luzianne guy if I had to choose.

@sparkyjones560

4 жыл бұрын

It's the same recipe as kool-aid.

@bushcraftguru682

4 жыл бұрын

Go figure. Just like bbq, you're doing it wrong. It's TWO cups of sugar to ONE gallon of tea

@annaleabrown4588

4 жыл бұрын

@@bushcraftguru682 Thank you! I was getting worried.... We do 2 C. and I was concerned by all the 1 C. comments.

@louchat333

4 жыл бұрын

Louisiana here. I pretty much like any black tea for iced tea but it has to be sweetened because it can be bitter if it is too strong.

Definitely grew up having sweet tea here in the midwest. However, as I've gotten older, and started watching Spiffing Brit, I have moved more towards hot tea with a small bit of sugar and honey. Typically either go for Yorkshire gold or red, or Oolong tea which is my personal favorite variety, especially the darker Oolong blends. I do also enjoy most of the Taylor's of Harrogate, I've really been enjoying the English Breakfast, Lemon and Orange, and for late night tea times I go for Chamomile. I just really love tea tbh

I agree with Tara about Lipton. It tastes like the sweepings off the floor of some other tea packaging facility.

When my daughter was seven, we took a trip into Germany, Switzerland and Austria. She was raised on unsweetened iced tea, mostly to keep her away from soda, and she prefers it. Try explaining to a German or any European, that you want tea with ice in it.

@Hermititis

4 жыл бұрын

I went on a trip to Ireland years ago. When I would order a soda, it would come without ice. I started ordering it "with ice" and it would have ice...one single cube, to be precise. 😆

@Sleipnirseight

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hermititis That is hysterical! I can't wait to visit

Grew up in southern California, never had sweet tea until I married my husband who grew up all over the south and now I'm hooked 😂

@johnnarogers5636

4 жыл бұрын

that's insane because me and my mom grew up in southern California and we would always have it (usually let the sun heat it up to brew but it still had the same amazing amount of sugar)

@allisonyoung4007

4 жыл бұрын

Bless your heart! 😉

I only use Tetley tea. I use 6 family sized bags to a gallon of water and 3/4 cup of sugar. I place the bags in tea kettle. Heat it almost to a boil without boiling. Shut off. Let steep 2 mins, remove tea bags, pour over sugar in pitcher, stir good and finish filling pitcher with water. We live in SC, we drink sweet tea every single day! Add a bag of your favorite individual tea for some flavor or add a slice of lemon or some bruised mint leaves.

@arthurc1971

3 жыл бұрын

I live in SC too. Since becoming diabetic i’ve stopped drinking it, I miss it.

I can understand American southern sweet tea not being for everyone. But a lot of people out there just say “ ugh!” without ever having tried it. As a southern American myself, I prefer my tea hot and unsweetened to lightly sweetened depending on my mood but if you give me a sweet tea I’m still going to drink it.