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― am0n, Saturday, 28 April 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link

alex in nyc?

― JW, Saturday, 28 April 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

You mean they're like sweet tea, doncha.

-- Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 28 April 2007 21:35 (Yesterday)

AWWW FUCK

sonned in lemonade/sweet tea beef

― latebloomer, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link

just goes to show i'm not a native southerner. when my friend sean (who's lived all his life here) came back from a trip to NYC he was stunned at the lack of sweet tea. it's just something that he was so used to.

― latebloomer, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link

i think to be a true southerner you have to be born with trace of amount of caffeine in your blood

― latebloomer, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link

My wife always talked about how confusing it could get in American restaurants, being asked a thousand questions about one wants their meal prepared. For example, in Australia, they don't really bother asking you what kind of freakin' salad dressing you want.

So you can imagine the blank stare she gave our Waffle House waitress the first time she was asked "sweet'r,unsweet?"

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link

i have a friend from alabama who was totally baffled that there was no sweet tea to be found in montreal. i told him i had never even heard of this sweet tea and he was like "no, you know, sweet tea! you know!" this was abt 2 yrs ago. there is still no sweet tea.

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link

If you find me sleepin' in the shade dear
Will you promise to bring me all your sweetness
All my plans are hangin' in the palms dear
All my thoughts are lost in Pawley's interest
Rock me gently the waves are softly rollin'
Salty breezes blowin' through the screen dear
Pour me some of your old fashioned magic
I can hear you whispering in my ear

Don't try to offer me anything
What it comes right down to baby
Don't tempt me; I'm where I wanna be
Cause on the eighth day, God made sweet tea

Certain things in life I like to savor
Watchin' clouds and waitin' on the rain
If you ever question my behavior
Just a taste will make you feel the same now

Don't try to offer me anything
What it comes right down to baby
Don't tempt me; I'm where I wanna be
Cause on the eighth day, God made sweet tea

We've known each other goin' on thirty years
Seen a lot of joy; we've seen a lot of tears
Still I wouldn't change a single thing that I did
Cause we're here, yea.....

Don't try to offer me anything
What it comes right down to baby
Don't tempt me; I'm where I wanna be
Cause on the eighth day, God made sweet tea

Don't try to offer me anything
What it comes right down to baby
Don't tempt me; I'm where I wanna be
Cause on the eighth day, God made sweet tea

― tehresa, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link

cravin melon omg lmao

― latebloomer, Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link

I always thought the only reason for restaurants to serve unsweetened tea was to allow the calorie-conscious among us to add their preferred artificial sweetener, y'know, as a sensitive nod to customer choice. It never occurred to me that anyone would drink un-sweet tea voluntarily.

― Laurel, Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

haha Laurel otm

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link

So hang on whats the difference between putting yr own sugar into tea (and I dont put much!) and "sweet tea"? Is it like HORRIBLY RLY SWEET?

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I wd be in sunny's shoes if I ever came to the South :(

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Southern "sweet tea" = black tea with lots of sugar. It is often HORRIBLY RLY SWEET. Also it is served chilled/on ice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_tea

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

I did not know this!

The oldest known recipe for sweet ice tea was published in 1879 in a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree. This recipe calls for green tea. In fact, most sweet tea consumed during this period was green tea. However, during World War II, the major sources of green tea were cut off from the United States, leaving them with tea almost exclusively from British-controlled India which produces black tea. Americans came out of the war drinking nearly 99 percent black tea.

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link

OK so, iced tea then thats what I thought. Its just a totally diff thing to normal hot tea!

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Im sorry I sound so britisher :(

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link

i really prefer unsweetened iced tea! it annoys me that it is so hard to find this in bottled/canned form. itoen teas are becoming more available, but always $2+. snapple, etc., all undrinkable nastiness.

― bell_labs, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Bottled/canned sweet tea is generally an atrocity.

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link

We have peach iced tea in bottles here, I inhale that stuff. I love it.

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost awww I suck.

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link

hahaha

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Thats it I'm never coming to visit y'all now!

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link

(cheers from general direction of US)

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link

I've never actually had peach iced tea but I know lots of people who like it. I'm scared to try it.

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link

SNAPPLE IS DOO DOO

― JW, Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link

They dont have that here but we have Liptons which is probably just as crappy... it doesnt taste like tea that's for sure, just like a watery peach flavoured sweet thing. I like it.

― Trayce, Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

The important elements of sweet tea are that a) you add the sugar while it's hot so it dissolves completely and easily, not like having to stir and stir and stir to sweeten cold tea (which is what simple syrup is for), b) you make it REALLY strong with lots of tea bags (altho do not steep indefinitely, that leads to bitterness -- the secret is LOTS of bags and to let them steep undisturbed w/o agitating or squeezing), and c) you serve it over a whole glass of ice with either a sprig of mint or a lemon wedge, so the melting ice dilutes both the strength and sweetness of the tea concentrate and the garnish adds some kind of palate-cleaning freshness. A good reason to have a pot of mint growing on yr windowsill.

― Laurel, Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link

cravin melon omg lmao

yo i totally saw them open for edwin mccain for the last show evar before they imploded gville memorial aud. major lolz!

― tehresa, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:44 (sixteen years ago) link

i think g. singleton had a sweet tea poem that was much better but i can't find it :(

― tehresa, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link

okay how laurel described it sounds good!
the steeping time for regular tea is key to its goodness yeah. but i would still not put all that sugar in. i didn't even drink tea until i was in my late teens and never had a thing for that iced tea in cans or restaurant fountains. but i don't even know what we drank when we were kids - juice? water? milk? yeah. not iced tea. i bet this is mostly b/c it was the pacific northwest and we weren't spending all day sweating in the sun. and the hippie healthfood factor.

so i am going to make iced tea and maybe iced coffee this summer then! it is so exciting my new full-blown caffeine love and its possibilities.

― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

i think the fact that i only like completely unsweetened tea means i probably don't actually like tea

― ghost rider, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link

i like the tea they serve at chinese restaurants.

― ian, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link

otm

― ghost rider, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link

My sweet tea recipe, courtesy of Cook's Illustrated: use 10 bags for every 4 cups of water (I make like a gallon at a time). Pour ROOM TEMPERATURE water over your total number of bags and let the bowl sit UNDISTURBED for about 45 minutes. Don't squeeze the bags, just lift them out, drip a bit, then dump into the sink (squeezing them will flood the bowl with bitter tannins).

To sweeten, I make a simple syrup of equal parts sugar and water. Put shug & water & flavorings into a pan together and heat over medium until sugar dissolves (does not have to boil). Let cool to room temp, then remove flavorings (see below) and strain, if necessary. Pour into an empty glass bottle and store in fridge for up to a week or so.

*Flavorings: I really like a handful of bruised mint leaves, or a couple of springs of thyme (ESPECIALLY good if you're sweetening home-made lemonade). Have also heard of using lemon or other citrus zest, or a cinnamon stick. I bet if you liked, say, star anise or ginger, those would be cool things to put in.

Sweeten yr pitcher of tea with the syrup & serve over ice, then be buzzed until 2am because you can drink about three pints of tea on a hot day without even noticing. The room-temperature part of this recipe is really awesome, too, b/c is saves you from ever having to boil anything or make yr kitchen any hotter.

― Laurel, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link

i feel like you've posted this before?
what about SUN TEA? tea that harnesses the power of the sun

― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link

sun tea is AWESOME!

― tehresa, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link

and then you become solar energized

also, 10 tea bags for 4 cups of water!! it is possible that i am too poor/frugal for this (tea and water are the only things i drink! and beer/alcohol obv sometimes). are these regular orange pekoe bags that are usually good for a 2-cup regular pot of tea? or, like, 1-cup twinnings bags?
tea.

― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link

yo i totally saw them open for edwin mccain for the last show evar before they imploded gville memorial aud. major lolz!

-- tehresa, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:44 (1 hour ago)

how did mccain get on i love the 80's is what i wanna know

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link

no way! that is weird. he is totes early-mid 90s noticon anyway.

― tehresa, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link

he's one of the talking heads/commenters/"funny" people

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link

I am going to have to try that recipe now

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link

and then you become solar energized

also, 10 tea bags for 4 cups of water!! it is possible that i am too poor/frugal for this (tea and water are the only things i drink! and beer/alcohol obv sometimes). are these regular orange pekoe bags that are usually good for a 2-cup regular pot of tea? or, like, 1-cup twinnings bags?
tea.

-- rrrobyn, Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:07 PM (1 hour ago)

we should probably get married, you and i

― river wolf, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I like the sound of proper Southern sweet tea from that recipe. Huh.

― Trayce, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link

but seriously, thank you guys.

― remy bean, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link

I've definitely posted it before, but it keeps coming up. :)

― Laurel, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link

And incidentally, Cooks' Illustrated determined that Lipton teabags made the best and roundest iced-tea flavor of the mainstream brands. My problem is that last time I bought a box, the bags were individually wrapped in paper which is a huge waste. New mission: to find Lipton teabags boxed up without their jackets on. (Yes, Robyn, they are individual regular tea bags.)

― Laurel, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link

we will get married in the heart of a dying sun and it will burn bright again

xpostxpostxpost
tea.

― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:12 (sixteen years ago) link

i buy president's choice teabags that just all come in a box together, so no needless packaging. but i think pres choice is just cdn? it rocks btw. i am kind of annoyed with twinnings b/c they are now using this shiny thicker paper for the individual teabag wrappers and i have a bad feeling about its recycleability.

i know that loose tea is the best way to go though, esp for green tea, but for quality in general. but it is usually expensive. this tea talk is making me feel like a britisher.

― rrrobyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link

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