Sweet Tea ???

[Momelie]

I was buying a gallon a week at Publix.

Just an FYI.... Publix sweet tea is NOT sweetened with sugar. It uses the high fructose corn syrup that is mildly addicting. Check out the ingredient list - I was shocked when I saw it.

Now I always make my own, from scratch.

 

[mommyseven]

Everything south of Jax. is called "Occupied Territory"
(using a little "war of northern aggression" lingo)

 

[disneymagic02]

Like a previous poster said Columbia Harbor House in Magic Kingdom is the only place on site that serves Sweet Tea, when we went on the Keys to the Kingdom Tour we asked our guide and he told us about CHH. It is good sweet tea, and we are from Alabama so we know sweet tea.

 

[brooke1]

I don't know if the Publix stores in the Orlando area have it - I know they do further north - but if you need a sweet tea fix, you can find Milo's Sweet Tea and Red Diamond sweet tea in gallon jugs in the refrigerated section with milks and juices. Milo's, in particular, is especially good, and was made famous by Milo's, a restaurant in the Birmingham, AL, area.


I am from the Birmingham area and there is nothing better than sweet tea, dont even care for cokes that much, but i do like cokes when i am sick, also Milo's is the bomb andm there hambuger's are out of this world.....

Brooke

 

[Ryann]

I was very upset a few months ago when I learned that there was no sweet tea at WDW. It is a deep dark secret I have been keeping from my DF for a while now, as he is addicted to it. He will drink cokes too, but sweet tea is his absolute favorite, and it is always what he orders when we go out to dinner. I didn't have the heart to tell him he wouldn't be able to get it on our disneymoon! I will just have to act shocked. haha

 

[MHTeacher]

We love our sweet tea here in the south. When we were at WDW this past March, we were missing our sweet tea, and remembered while we were in DTD, about McDonald's "Mickey D's Sweet Tea". (This tastes just as good as what we Southerners make at home!) We got a glass and everything was ok in the world again for us!

 

[waltskids]

DH and I were just at Trail's End yesterday (5/6) and had some sweet tea with our lunch. It was very good!!

 

[canda]

DH and I were just at Trail's End yesterday (5/6) and had some sweet tea with our lunch. It was very good!!

House of Blues had it when we were there a couple of years ago.

I'm sorry, but we just can't accept who serves good sweet tea from a yankee!

 

[HappyDznyCamper]

I'm sorry, but we just can't accept who serves good sweet tea from a yankee!

I'll back up waltskid....Trails End has good southern style sweet tea(just like I said earlier in the thread)

 

[tiggermei]

The most important part (as a PP stated) is to add the sweet while the tea is hot -- or rather sugar then tea. THEN, the cups of sugar (not necessarily the syrup) will work. BUT, it must be steaming hot. My grandmother used to make the best sweet tea. I, somehow, am the only of her offspring who have mastered it -- and I am anything but a cook. Both of us do the "measuring" of the sugar by eye, and it is about 1 1/2 - 2 cups per pitcher.

Love this thread, because in my head my full Southern accent is at its best.

 

[tmccullough]

Does anyone know where in the parks I can find sweet tea of any sort (need the caffeine and hate soda). Even unsweetened would work - could sweeten it myself to get my caffeine fix. Wish I was a coffee drinker but just don't like it either. Thanks.

 

[darlak]

You can find freshly brewed sweet tea in MK at Columbia Harbour House in the Liberty Square section. That is the ONLY place we have found in any of the 4 parks where we can get freshly brewed sweet tea. While we're at our resort, I brew my own in the food court (tea bags and hot water always available). I make it REALLY sweet and use 1 or 2 teabags, then I just dilute it with water and pour over ice to make iced tea in my room.

MK-Liberty Tree Tavern and Crystal Palace have brewed unsweetened ice tea. You must sweeten it yourself.

MGM-ABC Commissary, Hollywood and Vine, Mama Melrose's and 50's Prime Time have brewed unsweetened iced tea.

AK-Pizzafari and Tusker House have brewed unsweetened ice tea.

Epcot-Coral Reef has brewed unsweetened iced tea.

You might wonder why I keep mentioning "brewed iced tea". This is because there is an abundance of places at WDW that have either powdered iced tea or fruit flavored iced tea. If you see iced tea on any menu, ask if it's freshly brewed and then ask again to make sure it isn't fruit flavored. I'm not a coffee drinker but need my "tea fix" several times a day.

 

[darlak]

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[Leleluvsdis]

Everywhere we ate we found unsweet tea, but not sweet. If I remember correctly there were several places that had nestea in the fountain, but I'm not much of a fan for that.

 

[mickeyfanz]

One interesting thing they do as far as tea is make "Arnold Palmers" for people. I heard someone order it and asked what it is and it is unsweetened ice tea mixed with lemonade. Now it is not as heavenly as our Southern sweet tea, but it was a pretty good alternative. I ordered it in all of the WDW restaurants and they all knew what I was talking about. Now at home in NC I noticed that the grocery stores sell pre-made Arnold Palmer brand teas in the OJ section.

 

[SweetSpellsSweetie]

So I gave it another try this morning, and I have to say I think I did a pretty good job. I put my tea bags on the stove with a little water and let them steep for a while. Then poured the piping hot tea over 2 C of suagar, filled the rest of the pitcher with cold water and refigerated. I now can't wait to leave for WDW in 6 days. My first stop at DTS will be to McDonalds for tea!!!!

 

[jcanter426]

Garden Grill in Epcot!!!!! Decent by NC standards, but sweet nonetheless!!!! After a week with no tea, anything will do!!!!

 

[DiRTyBuNNy]

Garden Grill in Epcot!!!!! Decent by NC standards, but sweet nonetheless!!!! After a week with no tea, anything will do!!!!

Hahahaha..sounds like my wife after a week without "real" sweet tea while we were at WDW...

--Mr. DB

 

[sorul82?]

Garden Grill in Epcot!!!!! Decent by NC standards, but sweet nonetheless!!!! After a week with no tea, anything will do!!!!

Now that's sayin' a lot! I was starting to think I was gonna have to set up a sweet tea bootleg operation down there. gotta go....need to make ADR for GG.

 

[jcanter426]

Our first dinner at WDW was on our arrival day at Wolfe Gang Puck Cafe, I asked the waitress if they had sweet tea (I was not aware of the apparent ban on this particular beverage), she laughed and said "No, you must be from down south"........now is it just me or is Florida about as far south as they come????? From then on I didn't even ask, b/c I didn't want to get the same dumbfounded look from the servers, but when the waitress at Garden Grill announced they had sweet tea......all four adults in our party sighed w/ relief.......needless to say after a week with no tea and 90 degree weather, the lady brought us a whole picture of tea......she def got extra tip