• slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    This seems like a US thing I’m too European to understand

    (aka. they bring us the ingredients, and we make our own tea at the restaurant table)

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Yeah in the US they have this thing called sweet tea (some places have a choice between sweet and unsweetened tea).

      To make sweet tea they just unload a tanker truck full of gum syrup into cold tea. That’s what it tastes like to me.

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      2 years ago

      Sweet tea is a drink prepared hot but consumed cold. The cold part is best done via refrigeration. Bringing hot water, tea, and sugar are not going to achieve the same results.

          • FringeTheory999@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            Have you ever had southern sweet tea? The flavor is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. If you want to drink sugar water and brown coloring why not drink a coke?