Posted on 08/07/2023 6:55:05 AM PDT by devane617
You’re lovin’ it — but is it too good to be true?
A McDonald’s employee revealed how their iced tea is made — and claim it’s a lot sweeter than most customer’s might think.
TikTok user @gia2bad claims she’s letting viewers in on how the beloved drink is really made, leaving them stunned at what they’ve allegedly been consuming.
In the now-viral video — which has garnered 1.3 million views and 101,700 likes as of Monday morning — Gia exposed the fast food chain for putting an entire four-pound bag of sugar into their iced tea.
“If y’all were wondering why the sweet tea so sweet at McDonald’s,” she wrote in the text over the video, which showed her emptying a bag of White Satin sugar into a bucket of tea and stirring it up.
“Yes we use a whole bag sometimes 2,” she added in the caption.
Viewers rushed to the comments to express their shock.
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He doesn't remember how much sweetener was added, but they didn't dump sugar into the tea and stir...
"Cans of diabetically dangerous drinks" is more accurate.
I’d have been fired immediately, and rightly so, if I had ever posted video of my company’s operations without the company’s approval.
than most customer’s might think
ARRRRGH
its less than your average non-diet soda.
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It may surprise a lot of folks if they read the
labels on a lot of diet drinks. More sugar than
they may have expected. Also they can use a non
diet ingredient that isn’t listed as sugar.
Old Wilford mangled that topic and the videos on YouTube are a hoot!
Sweet tea: Pffft!!
There’s nothing more refreshing than plain, unsweetened tea! Tea has such a delicate flavor that adding sweeteners and flavorings ruins it. “Sweet tea” is nothing more than sugar water. You might as well sip hummingbird nectar.
The SMALL print on labels is your friend.
Hubby brought home “Natural” peanut butter — Smuckers, I think. The first ingredient is sugar. “But it says it’s natural.” “Sugar is natural.”
“Southerners have been drinking “sweet tea” for decades”
And it shows
Anytime I drink cold tea I mix AT LEAST 50% non Sweet with the Sweet, usually a lot more.
Centuries, not decades.
But it never was a good thing.
Maybe it wasnt as obviously destructive as we know it to be now, due to different circumstances in past times. For one thing people tended to die of other things before diabetes got them.
Soda drinks are a much bigger problem, true. But they all are problems.
Gee, sweet tea has sugar in it. Stop the presses!
Sweet Tea is and always has been an abomination.
How else are you supposed to make it other than dumping in a s#itload of sugar??
I feel the same way about coffee. If you have to add stuff, you ain't making it right.
Same thing with Orange Juice made from concentrate.
My doctor used to have in her exam rooms the amount of sugar packets all taped together in certain drinks like Coke, OJ, and a few others.
Vaxxes and sugar. Better together.
McDonald’s unsweetened tea, common in most parts of the US, is fine.
That sounds right.
Its a good approach.
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