Tea -- Sweet vs. Unsweet

Unsweet. Though I can rock out with an Arnold Palmer.

two sugars, two teabags, warm the cup first please love, taaaaa

i hate tea if it's not lemonade iced tea

i'm going unsweet this week to try to lower the excessive sugar I intake lately, but it's like being in the Southern US it's like the Planet of the Apes of tea where people think you're either the owner of a Chinese restaurant or you're mentally disabled if you ask for unsweet tea.

I wear a wristwatch and eat potato salad. Tea's sweetness or lack of it pales in importance next to these facts.

no sugar, wee bit of milk.

Unsweet. Loving the giant 99 cent Dunkin' Donuts iced tea with lemon on these HOT days.

Restaurants down here all try to outdo each other on how sweet they can make their tea -- irritating as hell, it's like the stunt-hopping from craft brewers. I'll take it unsweet...might add a little pink packet, but probably not.

when i worked in a restaurant they had us fill a pitcher up with hot water, then fill a slightly smaller pitcher up with sugar, and mix the two first before putting in the tea bag and starting the machine, so that it was like a 'syrup' when added to the tea.

gross

yep!

if you spilled any on your hand, it would stick kinda like soda.....ick

one of the perks that elevates arby's above other fast food restaurants is that you can get unsweetened tea there next to the soda fountain

unsweet. i used to be all till-the-spoon-stands-up &c, w/four sugars, and then weaned myself off, tea for a while being a sorry substitute for its former sweet self, a warm mug you would cling to for warmth & ritual, like non-alcoholic beer, etc. i made a cup of tea for my friend at an event recently and was kinda in awe of what a great routine it was to do the whole thing (like it had a saucer & he got biscuits, &c) - to go through the whole sequence of the milk-drop mushroom cloud & the quicksand sugar submersion and the stirring w/the whirlpool & the biscuit perching & everything.

there's a pretty badass tea joint here....hot tea > iced tea when outside temperature isn't a driving factor of my choice

if you're talking about iced tea the answer is sweet

if you're talking about hot tea it depends on the tea

surely been done on here but at what stage do you put milk in? i put it in first.

nope, bag then water then milk, to ensure mug warmed sufficiently, except when using good china iirc

sweet duh

mcdonalds sweet tea is actually pretty dope

i don't know if i've had ice tea besides BRISK or some shit.. so my impression is that it's wayy too sweet.

Have started taking my hot tea without ANY milk or sugar, which is...weird. But it's true that I can taste the tea-ness a lot more? Is actually going to force me to upgrade tea-wise, though.

ICED TEA, HOWEVER, IS BOLLOCKS WITHOUT SUGAR, and by sugar I mean it has to be simple syrup.

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Tea is tea. No sugar, no milk. Only way to go.

i go for unsweetened. if i sweeten it, it's with like one packet of splenda or sweet 'n' low.

when i worked food service i got customers who looked seriously confused when i told them the iced tea was unsweetened, like that couldn't possibly be a thing that exists. they'd either walk away or order a regular coke instead.

Hot tea should have cream in it.

chinese black tea - milk and sugar
persian tea - rock sugar
european "black" tea - maybe sugar
iced tea - no sugar or add fruit

always put sugar in black tea, and most of the time milk (except for darjeeling or oolong), never put sugar in green tea/genmaicha.

voted unsweetened b/c I mostly drink it iced & when it is iced I like it plain.

exceptions:
- real southern-style sweet tea @ bbq/soul food joints and such
- hot tea w/ milk and honey
- arnold palmers, which actually would almost have me voting 'sweet,' were it not for the 50% lemonade factor, which kind of negates the general tea-ness anyway. Otherwise, APs are my go-to (non-booze) summer beverage & I love them!

Totally depends upon the tea, but if you're talking bog standard PG Tips or something, milk no sugar, please. But I dislike the rudeness of assuming that's the only way to drink tea. There is definitely a time and place for Builders Tea.

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Oohhhh... the great divide!

proud to be a "southerner" who tipped the vote away from sweet

^^^ traitor

yes

i think these poll results are exactly correct

This really depends for me whether it's hot or iced, but when I voted I presumed we were talking about iced, because it's summertime.

Glad y'all didn't need my vote, as I forgot, but it's real simple: Iced, hot, you know what tea should have in it when you serve it to me? TEA AND NOTHING ELSE. I will add sugar, honey or dairy products as desired.

Southern predilection for sweet tea accounts for

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Oh, I would never want anyone else to sweeten my tea.

ha, Phil, I'm sure you're being a bit facetious but the South's penchant for deep-fried everything is probably more to blame than sugary tea.

a quart of Pepsi is generally the preferred drink anyway

I am drinking diet sweet tea for the first time ever now

it is a weird feeling