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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

Haha, yes. I don't think yr supposed to use any GOOD tea for iced, it's just a different beast than a hot cuppa -- you're adding so many other flavors, and serving it cooled, which makes things taste different too. No reason to use a premium brand.

xposty DUDES I am totally coming to that wedding, I love bonfires.

― Laurel, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Luzianne >>>> Lipton

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link

I wonder what green iced tea tastes like? It is so bitter. Hm... iced jasmine tea. That would be awes.

― Trayce, Monday, 30 April 2007 06:00 (sixteen years ago) link

/ is.

― remy bean, Monday, 30 April 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link

trayce ever have green tea ice cream

― JW, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Luzianne >>>> Lipton

-- Curt1s Stephens, Monday, April 30, 2007 1:42 AM (6 hours ago)

spoken like a true southern person who grew up watching locally targeted commercials!!

laurel i think salada comes in a big box of not-individually wrapped bags.

― tehresa, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

speaking of commercials, i never tried tetley, how dat is?

― tehresa, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Doesn't a true Tennessean use Sweetouchnee?

― Laurel, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Guys you know what tea is really good iced? CHAMOMILE.

― nickalicious, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link

I've actually never seen Luzianne commercials tehresa! It's just what my family uses.

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link

trayce ever have green tea ice cream

Yeah that stuff is really tasty.

Also omg Nicka is OTM! Chammomile iced tea! OK I have to try this.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link

bell labs OTM way upthread. for those of us who prefer our iced tea unsweetend ITOEN is the shit. out here you can get a 24 pack at costco for like $7.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link

no sweeteners or artificial shit. just fucking tea in a can.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link

dick in a box has ruined/lol-ed a lot of things for me, but 'fucking tea in a can' is comedy

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link

seriously though!

http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com/browseproducts/Itoen-Oolong-Tea-Can-11.5-FZ.HTML

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link

ooh i missed that upthread! i LOVE LOVE LOVE the itoen rose tea and have for years! for some reason that variety is often less available than others, but they're all awesome, and not sugary :)

SO GOOD:
http://itoen.com/img/products/215.jpg

― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link

i looks like they have a fancy-pants flagship stire in NYC:

http://www.itoen.com/store/index.cfm

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link

store

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link

styre

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link

i drank some of that itoen tea in a plastic bottle when i was in nyc! but it was not rose flavoured. it was just straight up green uh both good and bad and i almost finished it before i could not deal with it anymore.
i like that black oolong can. (i don't like drinking from cans though!)

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

we never got this comported

― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link

please

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link

trayce ever have green tea ice cream

My fave type of icecream.

― nathom, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link

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