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cane sugar= 16 calories/teaspoon. How many teaspoons in a glass of tea do you need?
Tablespoons, not teaspoons and the answer is "I don't know until I taste it". It's properly sweetened when the tea is roughly the viscosity of cold maple syrup and your hands shake uncontrollably after drinking a glass. My grandmother made the benchmark for sweet tea. I remember she had a pitcher that probably held about a gallon and a half & she'd use about half a five pound bag of sugar to sweeten it. When she got the sugar dissolved the spoon would almost stand up on it's own. It was gooooood! Holy popsicles Batman. Freeze that stuff and market it to kids. Half a teaspoon of honey in my hot tea is more than enough. 14oz mug. Can't imagine tea with tablespoons of sweet stuff in it. Might as well just tear open the sugar packets and pour them in your mouth like a Pixie Stik.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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You folks take this tea business pretty serious. Sammo, the majority of these folks is Southerners. Sweet tea is like the elixir of life itself to them. Pre- Air Conditioning it's what kept Meemah and Peepah alive. Meemaw had a GE fan with metal blades that would cut your finger off at the joint and they drank Tab, black coffee, and grapefruit juice.
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You folks take this tea business pretty serious. Sammo, the majority of these folks is Southerners. Sweet tea is like the elixir of life itself to them. Pre- Air Conditioning it's what kept Meemah and Peepah alive. Meemaw had a GE fan with metal blades that would cut your finger off at the joint and they drank Tab, black coffee, and grapefruit juice. Jimmy Bob, Don't you EVEN think about puttin' that cat's tail in that fan now, ya hear.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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cane sugar= 16 calories/teaspoon. How many teaspoons in a glass of tea do you need?
Tablespoons, not teaspoons and the answer is "I don't know until I taste it". It's properly sweetened when the tea is roughly the viscosity of cold maple syrup and your hands shake uncontrollably after drinking a glass. My grandmother made the benchmark for sweet tea. I remember she had a pitcher that probably held about a gallon and a half & she'd use about half a five pound bag of sugar to sweeten it. When she got the sugar dissolved the spoon would almost stand up on it's own. It was gooooood! Holy popsicles Batman. Freeze that stuff and market it to kids. Half a teaspoon of honey in my hot tea is more than enough. 14oz mug. Can't imagine tea with tablespoons of sweet stuff in it. Might as well just tear open the sugar packets and pour them in your mouth like a Pixie Stik. That last couple of glass fulls was killer. Make you want to split your head open on the trampoline. We called it ‘the slimy’ 👍 If tea had a worm....
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Yeah well, I think you are all a little odd for drinking it cold, seriously...weird!
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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Yeah well, I think you are all a little odd for drinking it cold, seriously...weird!
I like iced tea as much as any other American, but I do tend to enjoy a good hot cup of Irish Breakfast with a splash of milk too. It's all good.
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Yup.
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Lipton, sugar. Still too cold for ice tea here.
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PG Tips, Typhoo, Red Rose. Sweet & Low. All day long.
Luzianne is decent tea.
I don't know wtf you could classify lipton as, but wouldn't call it tea.
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Luzianne, pure cane sugar ^^^^THIS^^^^
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Luzianne or Lipton?
Sweetener; artificial or cane sugar? Luzianne and cane !
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Sweet iced tea is my drink of choice in restaurants. I have not made tea at home in probably 30 years.
Sam......
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when i'm going the tea route, i like to make 1/2 crystal light ice tea and 1/2 crystal light lemonaide. i love sweet tea but coupla sips and i feel like i'm getting the beetus.
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Lipton. No sugar.
My blood sugar stays at 75 all the time.
I am MAGA.
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Let the heavens open, And angels sing, Hah-lay-louuuu-yer. Hah-lay-louuuuuuuu-yer ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/8CbQvS32/B25957-C9-F47-C-49-EF-95-C8-089526-D89-B2-B.jpg) Milos is the ticket. You’re welcome.
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Iced tea (NOT to be confused with sweet tea) is like steak and coffee, if it needs something added to taste good, it's not the right stuff to begin with.
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Luzianne slow brewed at room temperature or as "sun" tea. Extremely smooth and with NO sweetener!
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Lipton with ice. no sugar or lemon
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For gallons, it’s the Lipton Gallon-size bags from Costco. Steep in about two quarts of nearly-boiling water for five minutes, then remove the bag and add ice and cold water to fill the jug. No hard-water scum when prepared this way. No sugar; sweet tea makes me gag.
The China Doll makes fruit juice from what we grow. If any is handy, I may add a bit if it for flavor. It’s pretty sweet, but the amount I add doesn’t sweeten the tea appreciably.
When she goes home for a visit every few years, she fills her bags up with snack foods and tea on the return trip. Most days she makes herself a cup and me a pint and a half of whatever she pulls out of the stash. Usually, I drink mine iced, which makes me a barbarian of sorts.
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Whatever store brand. Some kind of fake sugar.
My wife struggles some with the blood sugar.
I drink water and beer.
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