Do they serve sweet tea?

[LarryGadget]

Do they serve sweet tea on the cruises?

 

[TeamMom011]

I have heard of "sweet tea" for years but from what I gather it's a southern specialty. If we have it up here in the northwest, it goes by another name. Can you explain what it is exactly? Looking forward to finding out if they do have it on board so we might be able to try it.

 

[TnRobin]

No sweet tea onboard

Sweet Tea 101 - a Southern Delicacy. Southerns add the sugar to thier tea while is is still hot from brewing. This way the sugar melts. You get a smoother taste in the tea. If you add the sugar after the tea has chilled, you get a more "Kool-aid" effect with sugar floating to the bottom of the tea glass. It takes forever (and twice the sugar) to get the tea sweet with sugar The tea does not have a consistant taste. (It is sweeter at the bottom.) Plus after you FINALLY get it sweetened right some waitress comes by and refills your glass and you have to start all over again.

Oh also for out northern neighbors, in the south, true tea must be served cold and over ice. If you want the other stuff, you must specify "Hot" tea.

Larry stop by Tennessee on your way to the port and I will fix you a jug for the trip.

 

[Anita Williams]

Sweet tea is iced tea with sugar. I don't recall seeing it on the ships. My sister in law had to put sweet n low in hers. Anita.

 

[akasleepingbeauty]

Not only do they not serve sweet tea, they don't even serve real brewed tea. It is "fountain" tea (basically made with some kind of tea concentrate) - not as bad as instant but not nearly as good as brewed tea. I verified this with our servers and even saw the dispensers during the galley tour. I managed for the week but I sure was glad to get back home to "real" tea

I should mention that I sailed last year so it could possibly have changed since then. If anyone can verify for sure that this is no longer the case, I would be thrilled to hear it!

 

[westjones]

I just bought some of those 'cold brew' tea bags today to take on the cruise with me. I figured I could fill up with ice water and pick up sweetner at the beverage cart on deck 9, and make my own ice tea!

I am going to bring a mug with me so that I have a nice one to use while I watch the kids in the Mickey Pool!
Debra

 

[ruvidu]

For those of you who are traveling from the Northern states and have never had a glass of Sothern Wine (Sweet Tea) may I suggest stopping at the first Cracker Barral resturant you see coming down and order a glass there. It is almost as good as what my wife makes here at home.
The tea served on board ship is not fit for flusing toilets in SC.

Russ

 

[lUVTOGO]

Along with the iced tea, they have the best breakfasts around, to bad the closest one is 2 hrs away.

 

[MarkRG]

Actually Cracker Barrels are getting further and further north.

We frequent one quite regularly for breakfast, never had the sweet tea, will have to try it.

 

[SueEllen]

Plus after you FINALLY get it sweetened right some waitress comes by and refills your glass and you have to start all over again.

LMAO Robin! SO TRUE!!! I was having withdrawls on the ship for my sweet tea! I start my workdays off with a nice big glass of Hardees Sweet Tea.

The further south you go, if you order tea, they automatically assume that it is iced (is there any other ) and sweetened! My mother doesn't drink hers sweet (what--she can't be MY mother!) and almost choked one time in Georgia at a Cracker Barrell when she ordered tea and they brought it out sweet! I personally loved it. To me, that is the ONLY way to drink tea!

Now for the stuff on the cruise ship--YUCK! In the restaurants for dinner I think I remember them having real brewed iced tea, but yes, you had to sweeten it yourself--THE HORROR! I have found that using Equal to sweeten the tea works better than sugar since the sugar does exactly as Robin described, settles to the bottom and doesn't sweeten the whole glass.

Sue Ellen

 

[disneylover5]

We just got back from the Wonder and the Tea was awful. So, I ordered a glass of ice and a cup of Hot Tea. I sweetened the hot tea and then when the sugar was melted, I poured it over ice and it was wonderful.

I learned this at the Homestead ( a five star resot in southern VA). This is the only way they serve ice tea....they make it right in front of you.

 

[taswira]

Yep - Cracker Barrel is getting further and further up north! Since I live about 60/40 in Idaho and FL, I suffer "sweet tea withdrawals" when I'm up north. Low and behold, it's been a couple of years now at least since they built a nice Cracker Barrel in Boise ID. So where do you think I go to get my "fix?" I, too, take Cold Brew bags when cruising. But I also brew hot tea in my big insulated mug and then add ice. I wish DCL would take a hint about the tea. Does anyone LIKE their dining room ("dispenser") iced tea?

 

[tlt]

We thought the tea was awful also. Up by the pools, at the drink station, they have a wooden container with lots of different kinds of tea bags to choose from. We always made our own iced tea from those tea bags. We took our own insulated cups onboard (we got them at Walmart) and made tea from those tea bags and filled it with ice...it was great iced tea. You could take those to dinner and ask for a cup of hot water and a glass of ice and make your own...or order hot tea and a glass of ice. We thought the coffee was decent, but the tea is horrible.

 

[pjpoohbear]

I had a really hard time on the Wonder, this past May. We only get sweet tea when we order iced tea in Toronto. Asking for iced tea and getting a bitter glass of brown stuff was not a happy moment for me.

I make my own sweet tea at home and use a sugar syrup, (melt a cup of sugar in a cup of hot water and you have simple syrup great for adding sweetness to any drink) to sweeten it when it is still hot, so heading south is great for me.

When will those northerns get the whole iced tea thing right!

 

[ennazus]

I like mine fresh-brewed, unsweetened.... so I can sweeten it myself with just a little sugar in the cold tea (I like the crystally effect of the tea not quite melting. LOL)

I HATE THE FOUNTAIN TEAS!! THEY ARE A DISGRACE TO TEA LOVERS EVERYWHERE! LOL!!

I also hate it when I go to a restaurant & they say that they have no iced tea. What do they mean they have no iced tea? Do they have tea bags & hot water? Do they have ice? Then they could have iced tea! DUH! LOL

*just a little nerve was hit, here! LOL*

Guess I'll be making my own tea on the Magic.

 

[Tluvs2talk]

I am a sweet tea connoisseur and admit I like my tea sweet but can drink it with equal too. The only tea I despise is weak tea, and canned tea.( Sorry Lipton the canned tea is not the same stuff.) The tea on the cruise is actually pretty good, or has been on our last 3 cruises.

 

[LarryGadget]

So did we come to the conclusion that they DO serve brewed to on the ships, but it is not sweet tea? Is that right? (I hope, I hope, I hope). I can handle putting equal in some good brewed tea - but if it is canned or from a fountain I am really bummed.

If not, I guess I'll just have to drink the spirits more than I planned.

 

[ruvidu]

My favorite place to get sweet tea at home is a deli called McCallisters. They only have one size and and it is huge, like 20 oz. They make the tea fresh, strong and sweet, every 4 hours pouring out the old when they make new. They have straws you could slide a pencil into. There is a poster in the dinning room explaining that the large straw helps areate the tea and enhances the flavor. Works for me. They will give you enough lemon wedges to get you though a meal. All of this and a club sandwich made with honey mustard and potato salad.

Anybody want to discuss "shrimp and grits"? I get excited about that too.

Russ

 

[SweetSpot]

I have to ask. Last year when we drove to WDW from NJ we were amazed at the number of Cracker Barrel restaurants along 95. I'd never heard of the restaurant before that trip. We never stopped at one but I have to admit I am really curious, other than their sweet tea is the place worth eating at? Cracker Barrel has finally come to New Jersey is it worth the trip?

 

[ruvidu]

We really like the food there. It is a basic meat and 3 veggie for lunch and dinner. Breakfast is served all day with biscuits and sawmill gravy being the staple on most plates. My wife and eat there most Thursday mornings and we usually share a breakfast of a meat, 3 eggs, grits, hashbrown cassarole, fried apples, buiscuits and gravy. For lunch or dinner try the country style steak or roast beef with mashed potatoes. Their hamburger is about a half pound and you can get it on a toasted sour dough bun with real chedder cheese.

I would like to know if they are offering the grits in their Northern locations.

Oh yeah, there is also a very nice shopping area where you can purchase country themed articles and some old timey toys and music,

If you travel a good deal you may want to check out their audio books. You purchase the book on CD or tape and then return it at any Cracker Barral location for a refund minus $3.50 I think it is.