Sweet Tea?

[bluejasmine]

are you from the north?

only a northerner would say this

we all know adding sugar to cold tea is not the same as having SWEET TEA MADE THAT WAY!!!


FWIW I am just kidding with you!!

LOL, I am actually in SC! I've just been dieting for the last yr! I make two different pitchers of tea the green tea with spenda for me and regular sweet tea for the rest of my family!
Sheesh... Never thought we would get in a "hot" debate over sweet tea! lol

 

[PottersMom]

I saw somewhere once in GA, I think, that sweet tea is Southern Table Wine.

randmel

Actually the term I heard is "champagne of the south"

Before anyone reads the rest of this- understand that I am a sweet tea convert- I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! But I have a few ideas on why it's so hard to find in WDW...
Now I am a yankee- lived my whole life in New york-(belive it or not that is a whole state not just a city that never sleeps- some people down here are amazed to hear that!* j/k*)
However, now I live in SC and I have worked at a number of restaurants both in the North and South, (now I sell books- OT) Anyway- As so many of you have posted the specific instructions for making THE sweet tea, you can see that it is pretty much a pain in the @ss to make- not to mention it is never sweet enough- plus people who drink sweet tea can easily drink their weight in sweet tea in about 30seconds and then ask for more ... causing their server to basically run around like a lunatic doing nothing but refill sweet tea(and in some places you can't leave a pitcher on the table b/c it's a health dept. violation)It takes up more space in an already cluttered service station and all people do is complain about the dang tea! "This ain't like granny's tea!", "What did you put in this anyway, SPLENDA?!", "How much sugar is in here? a Teaspoon!"
I'm getting a headache remembering it all Oh and my personal favorite- and if you are offended by this it's only because you do it! The people who take their little kids out to eat a 9o'clock at night and feed them SWEET TEA and cheese fries for dinner!!! Hmmmm, whats the MOST caffinated sugar rich beverage available?- yes i'll have 4 glasses please for my 4 year old right before bed so she will run around like a maniac and when she finally does crash after the rush she'll pee in the hotel bed.
Fabulous plan parents- really I salute you. And no- I don't have any children, but when I do they wont even TASTE sweet tea until they can handle it- because it is good- and addictive. If you give it to 'em that's all they'll ever want.
Anyway- thats probably why they don't serve a lot of sweet tea in WDW. Best to bring your own specialty brew from home, or make it at the hotel if you start going through withdrawal. HTH

 

[disneydude]

They Still have great sweet tea at Trails End!!!

 

[welovedis]

Bless your heart, you had me going until you added the lemon.

only 2-3 drops and it tastes sooooooo good! I must say, I've 2 North Carolinians and a few Georgians say it was really good.

 

[SamIAm21]

I'm from Chicago and I love sweet tea. I am sitting here with near "vapors" at the thought that LTT doesn't have sweet-tea anymore! Have they lost their ever-lovin minds??

 

[Chuck65]

This is how I make my sweet tea: Put about 3 cups of cold water in a microwaveable container, I use a pyrex measuring container, and add 3 tea bags. Microwave for 7 minutes. Let it steep/brew for about 15 imns. Pour the tea in a gallon container with a litttle more than 1 cup of sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Add cold water to fill the gallon jug and stick in the frig. Enjoy and prepare to become hopelessly addicted.

 

[randmel]

Fabulous plan parents- really I salute you. And no- I don't have any children, but when I do they wont even TASTE sweet tea until they can handle it- because it is good- and addictive. If you give it to 'em that's all they'll ever want.

All we got at dinner growing up was sweet tea -- the only other option was Coke on the weekends. It's starting to occur to me why it took me so dang long to fall asleep now. Hmmm..

I don't let my girls have it either. The LAST thing they need is caffeine!

randmel

 

[NC State]

only 2-3 drops and it tastes sooooooo good! I must say, I've 2 North Carolinians and a few Georgians say it was really good.

I'll be over to try it, but NEW YORK CITY

 

[indigoxtreme]

PA has cracker barrells too (need that country ham fix every so often)...still, don't think their version is the same as you find in the deep south.

I really do think there's something to boiling the sugar before hand to make a syrup to add to the tea. Wish I could find the right proportions for the mix.

For a gallon of tea, take 1 1/2 cups of sugar. Now if it want high octaine (this is what my BIL drinks) 2 cups to a gallon. 3 large tea bags, in a quart pot place the sugar, tea bags and water, bring to a boil and let steep until you reach the strength you like. Mine is usually 5 minutes. Pour in gallon container and add water and or ice.

 

[Mackey Mouse]

Wait.. did someone say lemon?? I do not remember any lemon in sweet tea...

 

[disney09]

I LOVE sweet tea, and I'm even southern that you may think.. south of the border, that is.. I usually don't drink it here much since all I have is Nestle's Nestea and it's just not the same!! Whenever I go to the US I make sure I ask for iced tea, and always wondered why in some states they will serve it unsweetened and in some sweetened. Now I got it.
Another question melted away by the DIS!

 

[welovedis]

Lemon, that would be me. I swear by adding 2-3 DROPS of fresh lemon juice to my sweet tea (I'm talking about 2-3 drops per GALLON), it just adds a little somethin! Sometimes I get bold and put some mint leaves on top!!!!!

And I'm nowhere near New York City!

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I think Bluejasmine was responding to someone who asked how many points sweet tea would be on Weight Watchers.

Oh sorry. I missed that part. All I saw was the blasphemous part

 

[momandseandodisney]

in canada sweetend ice tea is really all we have, and adding sugar to unsweet tea just is not the same! Right?
EWW

 

[OKWMom]

All I saw was the blasphemous part

 

[Brier Rose]

Wow I can't believe how different we all make our sweet tea!

I too make a gallon of it EVERY day, but I make mine like this...

I put about 5 cups of water in a pot with 2 cups of sugar , and two family size tea bags. Bring to a boil, and then let sit as long as possible! At least an hour or two, but I have let it sit overnight!

Then I just pour that mixture into a gallon container, and fill the rest of the way with water to make 1 gallon!

This is the way we used to make it for our restaurant, and it's VERY good..if I do say so myself!

 

[MissLiz]

We just moved to Georgia a little over a year ago and we laughed the first time we went to a restaurant. We ordered tea and they asked if we wanted sweet or unsweet.

Now, we've got it down and we even get the little twang on the "sweet" going.

My DH and I love sweet tea and would love to have it at WDW, but it seems like there's just nowhere that we can get to easily to have some.

Oh, and the best sweet tea I ever had was at "Lady and Sons" in Savannah....they add fresh mint leaves to theirs......yum, yum, yummy!!!!!

 

[mlwear]

I put my sugar in the pot of water and the 3 large tea bags together and let them boil together. Let the water start to boil and turn it off steep a few minutes to the strength you like. My favorite tea is Lipton.

I make mine the exact way. Somehow I do think it tastes better when the sugar has boiled a bit with it. Always use Lipton (probably no difference in the others, but I have always used Lipton). When finished on the stove, I remove the bags of course and then put it in a pitcher completely filled with ice. I don't add regular water--again it probably wouldn't matter but that is how I always make it. It's great and I'm not messing with a good thing. Being a Virginian I usually can find sweet tea. Reg. iced tea with sugar added just isn't the same.
I don't know if it is just our local franchises, but Chick Fil A makes some of the best sweet tea around here. You can buy it in gallon jugs (do other Chick Fil A's do that?)

 

[LadyOmega]

Yeah every Chick Fil A Ive been to sells it in gallons.
Sonic also makes a pretty mean one at times.

 

[LadyOmega]

Oh sorry. I missed that part. All I saw was the blasphemous part

I would have to agree with this!!
But speaking of lemon, do all restaurants put a lemon slice on your sweet tea when you order it, unless you specifically ask them not to? Or is this just a Tennessee thing? I hate that, I always have to ask them to leave the lemon off, or it gets that little bit of a sour taste around the rim, and just ruins the whole glass for me.