Sweet Tea

[excitedfordisney7]

Quick Question:
Is there sweet ice tea at Pop Century to put in the refillable mugs?!!?

 

[shelleybell]

When we stayed, there was only regular tea. Plenty of sugar/artificial packets though.

 

[goofyernmost]

Quick Question:
Is there sweet ice tea at Pop Century to put in the refillable mugs?!!?

Gosh, I hope not. Sweet tea should be banned from the country completely. That stuff could send one into a diabetic comma. I have often wondered about flavored, lemoned and sweetened tea. If one doesn't like the taste of tea, why get it. Kool Aid will give you as much sugar as anything else.

 

[Skye23]

I think sweet tea is pretty much a cultural thing - if you ponder the economics of the south in general during say the period of time from the revolutionary war - oh, gee the 1950's? Tea was expensive, sugar was expensive (particularly white once they started making it), and ice was expensive - ergo serving chilled, highly-sweetened tea was in effect serving a very expensive luxury type product. Sure its cheap now, but it wasn't then. As time passed the product in question got sweeter, colder and was served in larger quantities (from lightly sweetened hot tea in small cups to huge glasses of highly sweetened cold tea). Giving your guests something that pricey was definately an act of hospitality and generosity, and being given something like that was actually considered a mark of your status with the hostess. Most regional and national cultures have a few products like this, some are still expensive, some are cheap now...

Interestingly enough the Pennsylvania Dutch have a similiar product they serve that is made by boiling mint leaves in a sugar syrup - so its just about as sweet but only uses mint leaves, no tea. I'm rather fond of it myself.. incredibly refreshing after you've been out picking something in a field or doing other work.

 

[NC State]

Gosh, I hope not. Sweet tea should be banned from the country completely. That stuff could send one into a diabetic comma. I have often wondered about flavored, lemoned and sweetened tea. If one doesn't like the taste of tea, why get it. Kool Aid will give you as much sugar as anything else.

Maybe because it's a Southern thing, thank you

 

[canda]

Gosh, I hope not. Sweet tea should be banned from the country completely. That stuff could send one into a diabetic comma. I have often wondered about flavored, lemoned and sweetened tea. If one doesn't like the taste of tea, why get it. Kool Aid will give you as much sugar as anything else.

Only a yankee could say something like that.


But, to the OP there is no good ol sweet tea in WDW.

 

[rapriebe]

The only place in WDW that we have been able to find sweet tea was at Trails End which is located in Ft. Wilderness. They have the best tea and will even give you a cup to go!!!!

 

[canda]

I think it is funny that 3 posters who post about sweet tea are from NC.

(goofyernmost, I know your post was a joke and I hope you think my other one was too.)

 

[bags6490]

If you dont like sweetners you can ask your server at a TS to heat some water for you so you can melt your sugar...then make your own sweet tea at the table. I have done this before and it was alright...still the water down there ruins the flavor to me.

Very good post about why sweet tea is so popular in the south. Akso consider that sweet tea is the House wine of the south since drinking with company was frowned upon. Muslims in Iraq do the same thing except they drink VERY sweet hot tea. Taste just like southern sweet tea.

 

[kaysmommie]

I'm from NJ originally and they don't serve Sweeet tea anywhere in NJ. We moved to TN last July and I love sweet tea! Gained 8 lbs. drinking it though. Even McDonalds serves it which was very strange to me being a Yankee and all.

 

[princesspiglet]

I'm a yankee, but I LOVE sweet tea...the sweeter the better. We lived in Greensboro (kernersville) NC for 3 years and I got addicted to it down there. It is very hard to find "real" southern brewed sweet tea up here. I was hoping to get my fix at WDW! We may have to make a pit-stop in Savannah on the way down. We ate at this restaurant on main street that had the best sweet tea I have every tasted. I think I must have drank at least a gallon!

 

[Tam1067]

I'm from NJ originally and they don't serve Sweeet tea anywhere in NJ. We moved to TN last July and I love sweet tea! Gained 8 lbs. drinking it though. Even McDonalds serves it which was very strange to me being a Yankee and all.

On our first family vacation to the real South (South Carolina) last year, I was shocked that the iced tea I ordered at good ole McDonald's was sweet, and that there was no regular tea to be had. And gosh, was it nasty...after that rude awakening, I asked everywhere we went if they had unsweetened tea before I ordered!

 

[Sandy51]

On our trip last month, DH asked for sweet tea at Prime Time Cafe. Our server told him that they don't serve sweet tea on Disney property. We were in there a few days later and saw a glass of tea at another table. DH asked our server (a different one) about it and he was puzzled about what we were told. Seems the misunderstanding came from ordering "sweet tea" when he should have just asked for iced tea. Live and learn.


Sandy

 

[BluOrchid2]

I think sweet tea is pretty much a cultural thing - if you ponder the economics of the south in general during say the period of time from the revolutionary war - oh, gee the 1950's? Tea was expensive, sugar was expensive (particularly white once they started making it), and ice was expensive - ergo serving chilled, highly-sweetened tea was in effect serving a very expensive luxury type product. Sure its cheap now, but it wasn't then. As time passed the product in question got sweeter, colder and was served in larger quantities (from lightly sweetened hot tea in small cups to huge glasses of highly sweetened cold tea). Giving your guests something that pricey was definately an act of hospitality and generosity, and being given something like that was actually considered a mark of your status with the hostess. Most regional and national cultures have a few products like this, some are still expensive, some are cheap now...

Interestingly enough the Pennsylvania Dutch have a similiar product they serve that is made by boiling mint leaves in a sugar syrup - so its just about as sweet but only uses mint leaves, no tea. I'm rather fond of it myself.. incredibly refreshing after you've been out picking something in a field or doing other work.

That was a very interesting post! Thank you for today's education. I knew Southerners liked their sweet tea, but didn't know all of this history about it.

 

[Talking Hands]

Only a yankee could say something like that.
But, to the OP there is no good ol sweet tea in WDW.

Or a diabetic who can't have sweet tea and needs to have unsweetened ice tea instead. I couldn't believe I couldn't get some plain tea when I was in Atlanta at a conference at the convention center. Three days and only water to drink.

 

[canda]

I'm a yankee, but I LOVE sweet tea...the sweeter the better. We lived in Greensboro (kernersville) NC for 3 years and I got addicted to it down there. It is very hard to find "real" southern brewed sweet tea up here. I was hoping to get my fix at WDW! We may have to make a pit-stop in Savannah on the way down. We ate at this restaurant on main street that had the best sweet tea I have every tasted. I think I must have drank at least a gallon!

Your post makes me want to go to Doss's or Bill and Lea's and get a Hotdog and sweet tea.

 

[HalfDozen]

We have a barbecue restaurant here that serves sweet tea. It's sickeningly sweet, though. I get half and half (usually snagging half of DH's sweet tea to mix with my unsweetened tea). But really, I just add the sugar to taste if it comes unsweetened. I've never understood why restaurants offer unsweetened and sweetened tea - when there are packets of sugar and sweetener on the tables. I guess because sweet tea already has the sugar dissolved, but - eh - no big loss, to me.

 

[goofyernmost]

I think it is funny that 3 posters who post about sweet tea are from NC.

(goofyernmost, I know your post was a joke and I hope you think my other one was too.)

Yup...I knew it was a joke and I hoped everyone knew I was tugging their chain as well. I have always wondered why they have Sweet Tea pre-made when all anyone has to do is add sugar. I personally like the taste of tea so I don't use sugar or lemon. Just Iced Tea. I have found that in the last few years, regular unsweetened tea has been available almost everyplace I have asked in the south. See you can teach a rebel new tricks. We yankee's just know how to enjoy the stuff.

 

[PopArtGal]

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[FigNewton]

We have a barbecue restaurant here that serves sweet tea. It's sickeningly sweet, though. I get half and half (usually snagging half of DH's sweet tea to mix with my unsweetened tea). But really, I just add the sugar to taste if it comes unsweetened. I've never understood why restaurants offer unsweetened and sweetened tea - when there are packets of sugar and sweetener on the tables. I guess because sweet tea already has the sugar dissolved, but - eh - no big loss, to me.

No, it isn't just that the sugar is already dissolved... it's because iced tea doesn't dissolve sugar very well at all. Adding a packet of sugar to a glass of iced tea results mostly in nothing but granules of sugar in the bottom of the glass. Yeah you'll taste some sweetness when you suck up the sugar with the tea, but it's nothing like tasting actual sweet tea.

To make proper sweet tea, the sugar is added when the tea is till warm.

We were told by a server at Tony's (who happened to be from Kentucky like us) told us the only place she knew of to get sweet tea at WDW was at Rainforest Cafe. So the next day when we were at AK we ate at Rainforest Cafe, and were terribly disappointed in both the food and the service, but at least we got sweet tea!