McDonald's Sweet Tea

[OceanAnnie]

On a hot day, it's the best! I like to get half sweet and half unsweet. Really quenches your thirst and the price is right!

 

[BellvilleDad]

On a hot day, it's the best! I like to get half sweet and half unsweet. Really quenches your thirst and the price is right!

It's just a little too sweet for me, but it has a good flavor. I add a little water and it's just right!

 

[OceanAnnie]

It's just a little too sweet for me, but it has a good flavor. I add a little water and it's just right!

I do that too.

 

[lucas]

I love it just as it is!

 

[DIS_MERI]

At our McDs you can get one of the big coolers (5 or 10 gallons) full of sweet tea for $5

 

[Jennasis]

I've tried...I really have. I tried to like sweet tea. I just can't. Makes me feel like an outcast here in NC. DH loves it though.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

Sweet tea? Where I live, it's just called "tea". The sweet is assumed!

However, Bojangles tea is highly superior to McDonald's. I don't drink the stuff very often but sometimes a Bojangles tea just hits the spot!

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Chick-Fil-A tea is better than McD's, but McD's is much cheaper! After 8 years of marriage I have finally convinced DH that there is a difference between sweet tea, and adding sugar to unsweetened tea!

 

[herdtoDisney]

Sweet tea? Where I live, it's just called "tea". The sweet is assumed!

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LOL, where I live, you HAVE to specify sweet or you will NOT get it! I developed a taste for sweet tea after a visit to the Outer Banks, but here it's usually served unsweetened. When McD's first came out with the sweet tea a couple years ago, I went to get one and ordered sweet tea. The cashier then asked me, sweet or unsweet I also tried to order a sweet tea at Dunkin Donuts, but the lady gave me some fruit flavored tea.

It's hot today, I think I might go get one at McD's!

 

[ChiCat]

Sweet tea? Where I live, it's just called "tea". The sweet is assumed!

UGH! I hate when I go to a restaurant and ask, clearly is the tea unsweetened and they say yes, and then bring me sweet tea anyway I hate sweet iced tea. It's soooo good and refreshing with no sugar added.

But yeah one of my favorite summer time post bike ride treats is an ice cream cone from McD's and a large unsweetened iced tea. It's pretty much the only thing I will eat from there.

 

[princesspiglet]

I love me some sweet tea, I pretty much live on it. That is all I drink besides plain water. However, I don't like the calories of sugar so I make mine with splenda. I lived in NC for 2 years and learned to make real sweet tea while working at The Midtown Cafe & Dessertery in Winston-Salem. Up until then I was just adding my sugar after the tea was brewed. Now that I know the right way to make it, it is sooo much better!


The McD's one is very good when I am craving one out and about. That is the only thing I will order from there.

 

[DisneyCher]

I absolutely cannot do sweet tea. It has to be unsweetened with some lemon.
Sweet-tasting beverages don't quench my thirst when it is hot outside (and that includes diet soda).

 

[MIGrandma]

Blech.

Never acquired a taste for sweetened tea, I like it just plain and with a slice of lemon.

Have to ask specifically for UN-sweetened at McD's now, since they have both. Last time I went thru the drive-thru and stressed UN-sweetened, they gave me sweetened. Thankfully I took a sip before I got out on the road so I could go inside and have them change it.

 

[HonnyDipp]

Its good only if its made right. I'm a southern gal who loves her sweet tea. So I'm really picky. I make sun tea at home. I put the tea bags in a big jar add water and place it outside in the sun. Old family recipe and it still works!

 

[ols386]

I like sweet tea, but McDonalds sweet tea is a bit to sweet even for me. I've only had it once. Never thought about asking for 1/2 sweet and 1/2 unsweet. Good idea!

 

[Sandy321]

addictive!

230 calories, but no HFCS!
(and that is for a full cup of ice, as opposed to my favorite - "easy on the ice/lite ice" )

We used to be able to DIY with the tea, now all the tea is in the back, and they cant seem to get my 1/2 sweet and 1/2 no sweet - easy ice recipe

Also-
when you make it yourself - do boil water, add sugar to that water, because sugar crystals do not "melt" in cold water, they will always fall to the bottom.

and Sun Tea is great - as long as you use a "cheap" tea bag - the Lipton cold tea has instant tea and really ground tea "leaves" otherwise, for another good flavor - you throw those tea bags in that boiling water to get the flavor out of them too!!

 

[Straitlover]

Mmm, sweet tea! Only drink it rarely becasue of the calories.

A funny - I was at Moe's Southwest last night (Welocme to Moe's!!!! ). I noticed they have the signs on their tea urs as Northern Tea (unsweet) and Southern Tea (sweet).

 

[Wall-E1]

I went through an addictive stage with McD's sweet tea. My new addition is the green tea at Panera Bread. It's amazing! They don't add sugar to it, but it is naturally sweetened by the fruits used when making it. It's perfectly sweet and refreshing on these 200 degree Florida afternoons.

 

[AKL_Megs]

Southern girl by blood who loves her sweet tea! I don't think I've met a sweet tea yet that I didn't like.

I also make sun tea. I've been going through a gallon every day and a half lately! I like it straight up, or with fresh muddled mint from the garden!

 

[luvmy3]

I reall like McD's sweet tea but I can't drink it because it gives me a horrible headache.