Sweet tea on Magic?

[inkkognito]

Gack!! I am a Chicago transplant to FL, and it took a while for me to learn to order "Unsweetened tea" in restaurants. I discovered that if you don't specify, you're served a drink that makes your teeth jangle and that will buzz you for the next week. Sad thing is, even when I DO specify "unsweetened," my husband can verify that 50 percent of the time they give me sweet tea anyway. He always knows it has happened again when I violently spew the drink back into my cup.

 

[iwannabeminnie]

LOL. I totally agree. Sweet tea makes me pucker and spew like I'd been given poison. However, being a Southerner, I do drink my tea morning, noon, and night. First thing you do when your feet hit the floor is head for the fridge to pour a glass of tea. The last thing you do at night is pour a glass to sit on the nightstand in case you wake up thirsty in the night.

 

[tvguy]

Well, you know, a cruise is supposed to be when you get AWAY from all the things from home and try new things!!!

 

[Thumper's Mom 06]

Here in Mississippi, we drink sweet tea for every meal, including breakfast!!

OMG! You are in my hometown! It is a small world!

I don't like to give out a lot of personal details on message boards, but couldn't figure out how to send a private message.

 

[LCTsMom]

Gack!! I am a Chicago transplant to FL, and it took a while for me to learn to order "Unsweetened tea" in restaurants. I discovered that if you don't specify, you're served a drink that makes your teeth jangle and that will buzz you for the next week. Sad thing is, even when I DO specify "unsweetened," my husband can verify that 50 percent of the time they give me sweet tea anyway. He always knows it has happened again when I violently spew the drink back into my cup.

Same here! Not sure about the rest of the country but here in SW Florida, McDonalds now sells sweet tea. Every time I order my unsweet tea I have to do the dipstick test with my finger to make sure it's really unsweet.

LOL. I totally agree. Sweet tea makes me pucker and spew like I'd been given poison. However, being a Southerner, I do drink my tea morning, noon, and night. First thing you do when your feet hit the floor is head for the fridge to pour a glass of tea. The last thing you do at night is pour a glass to sit on the nightstand in case you wake up thirsty in the night.

Morning, noon, night and all hours between. Unsweet tea runs through my veins!

 

[professorandmom]

You can learn a lot about cultural food differences by ordering at McDonalds. Made a horrible mistake by ordering iced tea in Charlotte...wow...

Oh, and in New Mexico, the cheesburger came with hot peppers....

sorry there is no sweetened tea onboard (for you folks) but there didn't used to be brewed iced tea of any kind (only the soda fountain stuff that tastes horrible) and the DCL saw the light....so perhaps there will be sweetened in the future!!!

Perhaps you can put that on the wish list for the new ships!
Barb

 

[LCTsMom]

I agree!

We were just in New Mexico for a wedding! I didn't realize that about the peppers!

The Mc Donalds sweet tea is sweetened with sugary syrup. They pump it like crazy (in their iced coffee too)!

 

[Monica D]

Does anyone know if they carry Sweet n' Low on the ship (California native ducking the rotten tomatoes )?

 

[CruiseBoundnKY]

I don't drink tea either but dh and ds love it.

So here's how you get it on the ship...

You ask for a glass of hot water and a glass of tea and you mix it all yourself with your own sugary concoction. My dh did this and I thought he was going to drive that poor girl nuts. But he got what he wanted, just took us conducting chemistry at our table to get it right.

 

[MyLove4Disney]

Sorry, I drink my tea straight up. I my version of a diet drink that I actually enjoy. Now hot tea, I do love to add honey and lemon. Something different about it being hot I guess. To each their own. There is a lot to select from.

Tea sweetened at the table just isn't worth drinking, IMO! I will make some concentrate to bring on board, then mix it and keep it in the room fridge. That way we can have it some of the time, even if not at meals. My next question is... how big is the fridge? (Comparable to the ones in the mod resorts?)

The frigs are not frigs they are just cool boxes, if food is cold it will stay cool. There is no refrigeration. If you need stuff to really stay cold you need to keep it in Ice. Room stewerds can provide for you on a regular basis, just let them know. The cool boxes are very small, they are not very deep about about the size of a 2ft cube.

Does anyone know if they carry Sweet n' Low on the ship (California native ducking the rotten tomatoes )?

Yes they have all 3 of the low cal sweeteners. The pink, blue and yellow packets.

as to the rotten tomatoes comment are you from northen cali where the smell of rotten tomatoes in the summer time can be smelled for miles.?????

 

[Monica D]

as to the rotten tomatoes comment are you from northen cali where the smell of rotten tomatoes in the summer time can be smelled for miles.?????

Nope...just lots of garlic. We don't have sweet tea here but I live off of iced tea and Sweet n' Low...some people think it's gross but I love it!

 

[inkkognito]

I would have iced tea hooked up intravenously 24/7 if I could. The irony is, I used to drink iced tea with so many packets of sugar that it was gritty...I always knew I should have been born in FL, but the stork delivered me to the wrong place. But then I gave up ALL sugar for a few months and totally lost the taste for it in drinks. I can't stand it in coffee, either, although I'll take all the cream I can get. Now, sugar in iced tea sends me over the edge. I guess I'm like a radical ex-smoker!

 

[laura_hattaway]

First of all, I find it hysterical that this topic is now three pages long.

Also, I grew up in the south and never latched on to the passoin for tea. I hit the floor drinking diet soda, and have it around ALL day (and I frequent the necessary room as an unfortunate side effect).

All of that to say...

Sad thing is, even when I DO specify "unsweetened," my husband can verify that 50 percent of the time they give me sweet tea anyway.

Until about the past year, the same held true with my ordering diet Coke at restaurants. Good grief, thank goodness I'm not diabetic. Do they think you won't notice? I mean... as if the mass quantities of caffeine aren't enough; think I need to be hopped up on all of that sugar, too?! I'd never sleep! (But I might get a lot more done.)

 

[iwannabeminnie]

In what part of the South did you grow up? I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world who knew what the "necessary room" was anymore! These Yankees are impossible to communicate with!

 

[laura_hattaway]

In what part of the South did you grow up? I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world who knew what the "necessary room" was anymore! These Yankees are impossible to communicate with!

I grew up in northwest Arkansas.

 

[LCTsMom]

I would have iced tea hooked up intravenously 24/7 if I could. The irony is, I used to drink iced tea with so many packets of sugar that it was gritty...I always knew I should have been born in FL, but the stork delivered me to the wrong place. But then I gave up ALL sugar for a few months and totally lost the taste for it in drinks. I can't stand it in coffee, either, although I'll take all the cream I can get. Now, sugar in iced tea sends me over the edge. I guess I'm like a radical ex-smoker!

Are we related? I used to drink Nestea by the gallon growing up in NJ. Now I can't stand the stuff!

First of all, I find it hysterical that this topic is now three pages long.

 

[iwannabeminnie]

Northwest Arkansas isn't all that far from Northeast Texas!

 

[disneegrl4eva]

Must respond
I am still new to the board, but not so much to sweet tea. I was not born in the south, but was raised in the south. I finally realized when I was in my early thirties that it wasn't worth trying to get sweet tea on vacation. It was always too much of a gamble, if the places had it. Using sweetener, well, it doesn't melt right. My sister likes sweet tea, but only with a tiny bit of sugar. Yuck, not for me. I like it sweet, and I like Lipton. I tried Luzianne and didn't like it. I think it's because my mom used Lipton. I am planning to try Red Diamond, because their commercial said it was the best. I'm open minded enough to try one time....

same here, I only drink Lipton... I grew up in Michigan but both of my parents were from the south...KY and GA...I went to GA every summer so I know well about the sweet tea...thats the only kind of tea my mom would drink...however, when I turned 18 and moved to cali I stopped drinking sweet tea altogether...even as a kid I only liked it when it was still hot and I could add ice and cool it down but once it was in the fridge that was it...didnt want any of it...now i drink it by itself with no sweetener at all...hot tea the same...

Does anyone know if they carry Sweet n' Low on the ship (California native ducking the rotten tomatoes )?

Nope...just lots of garlic. We don't have sweet tea here but I live off of iced tea and Sweet n' Low...some people think it's gross but I love it!

what part of cali are you from monica??? I can smell both garlic and tomatoes... I hate that smell....reminds me too much of the heat

 

[mommyz]

This is so funny. I LOVE sweet tea and what a difference when it's not. I never get iced tea from a restaurant (live on the east coast now grew up in tx) because I end up putting a ton of sugar and it never dissolves and then that last 1/4 is this big glop of sugar

You know what's really good too Thai iced tea

 

[iwannabeminnie]

Hey mommyz! I grew up in Texas too, but now live in Indiana. Ah, the things you do for love.