[AppyPappy]

You are right. As a hot tea drinker, I can tell you that tea (the leaves) should never be allowed to boil. It makes the tea bitter.

People put too much sugar in tea. It's undrinkable. The tea at Stamey's in Greensboro is horrid and wretched. I've been drinking it for decades and it hasn't gotten better.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Glad to know others know not to boil the tea bags. (Source of disagreement sometimes with others who come to my home and watch me prepare sweet tea - or for that matter - unsweet tea). Stamey's in Greensboro? Been a long time since I've been there.

Now that I have been drinking unsweet iced tea for all these years - sweet tea does seem sooooooo sweet. And, it can be totally sickeningly toooooo sweet.

But at Captain Stanley's and some of these BBQ places - on a hot summer's day - it is JUST right! (but only as a special treat pour moi)