Posted on 06/15/2007 9:47:49 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
If you boil the sugar in the water for a few minutes, it tastes a million times better. Just stirring sugar into the tea tastes terrible.
I’m fine without any sugar at all.
The chains here in east Texas ( even McD’s ) make it sweet.
Sugar - BAD. (EOM)
Forgot the tomato slices and onions.
I used to like poke salad but have decided I don’t like I anymore.
I drank a cold glass just this morning with my breakfast toast. Hot tea with milk and sugar is great too (loved by Anglo-Saxon Southerners).
LOVE sweet tea, catfish and hushpuppies. Best place for that (that I can recall) is “Top of the River” in Anniston, Alabama.
The trick to extracting the best of the flavour out of tea is to put the tea leaves into the water immediately after allowing the boiling water to cool to slightly below boiling point.
Some say that an old teapot with its stains, is critical too, but I’m not so sure.
And Darjeeling tea, by the way.
Sugar in hush puppies - BAD
Sugar in coleslaw - BAD
I drink Sweet Green Tea............Southern Chinese tradition.......
Okay, that makes sense. East Texas is culturally more Southern than Central Texas (where I live).
Sugar in hushpuppies = death penalty!
I agree; it’s not uncommon to have unsweet available in restaurants, but sweet is definitely consumed quite a lot more.
The reason I responded to your post is that I was outside Charleston not long ago and I ordered a glass of sweet tea at a seafood place. They told me they didn’t have sweet tea, and I was utterly stunned. Close to speechless. They explained that they get a lot of Yankee tourists and just don’t sell that much of it, but it just wasn’t a good meal without sweet tea. I wouldn’t go back.
As an aside, Chick-fil-a, hands down, makes the best fast food restaurant sweet tea. It is ALWAYS good, every time.
An old pot does lend a “flavour” to the tea. A new clean stainless steel pot is neutral.............or even a bit metallic.......
Basically a funnel cake with a few corns in it.
Heh, just my thought. Biscuits and white gravy with the fried chicken.
Except for sugar sweet tea, can’t have that anymore but use Splenda instead. Tastes the same to me and now I can drink all the “sweet” tea I want.
I will drink sweet tea, but I don’t like it. It goes back to my childhood, my mother wouldn’t let me drink it, and I acquired a taste for unsweetened (an un-lemoned) tea that persists to this day.
In my twenties, there was many a party where I went thirsty because all the tea was sweetened, however, as I have gotten older, I’ve learned to drink it when nothing else was available.
Unsweetened Lipton tea! It doesn’t get any better than that. It’s the only drink for the hot summer days when your body needs fluid. Tastes better than water, and quenches thirst better, too.
Well, actually I have given up (non-herbal) tea, but the same principle applies to lemonade. Boil the sugar in the water for a greatly improved taste.
My sources (Dr. Hulda Clark, et al) say that artificial sugar induces diabetes and greatly worsens it. Based on her books, I gave up tea, and within a few months, the problem in my lower legs disappeared.
Alternative health rules!
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