Another place with really wonderful iced tea is Nine Dragons in EPCOT. I think I drank about 4 or 5 glasses during dinner when we were there. Absolutely the best unsweetened iced tea we had on our entire trip.
I know that Contempo Cafe has one of the those Gold Peak tea dispenser machines, and there are 4 or 5 different options. Sweet tea is only one of the options.
Those dispensers are horrible. The tea is not brewed and comes from a concentrate. I can't imagine anyone that likes fresh brewed ice tea wuold even consider drinking anything out of those dispensers.
In many the Southern states, the only option is sweet tea (which is different than just adding sugar to already iced tea).
When I visited Alabama, I didn't know anything about sweet tea - I'm from the Northeast. I ordered tea in a Chinese restaurant. Rather than getting unsweetened, brewed hot tea as we get up here, I got sweet iced tea! Not exactly what I had been expecting!
I drink tea almost exclusively (or water, but rarely soda), and if the restaurant/qs place carries tea of some sort, they will have unsweet. Most of your options are now limited to Gold Peak (which I'm not a fan of either, but I'll take if that's all they've got! ), though nearly all table service and a few quick service places do still brew real iced tea.
Also, yes, while Disney is in FL, it most certainly is not in "The South", so unsweet tea is the default, rather than sweet (I say that having lived in Southern AL for a while, so I know how hard it can be to find unsweet there!).
Those dispensers are horrible. The tea is not brewed and comes from a concentrate. I can't imagine anyone that likes fresh brewed ice tea wuold even consider drinking anything out of those dispensers.
ITA. The Gold Peak tea is not much better IMO than Nestea canned stuff. I'll drink the Gold Peak tea when I'm desperate and have had more soda than I can stand. But really, the only decent tea at WDW is the fresh brewed stuff in the TS restaurants IMO.
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