What do you mean no sweet tea?

[ken2]

Sooooo why is it so hard to find sweet tea at Disney World?I understand why there is no Mountian Dew,but to deny a southener sweet tea is just plain wrong.The only place i have found sweet tea is San Angel Inn.We bring a huge cooler with Mountian Dew,swee tea and water with us every trip.It is not the same to take cold tea and then add sugar.Yuk!And no Melow Yelow is not the same as Dew!

 

[lmcarr49]

Sooooo why is it so hard to find sweet tea at Disney World?I understand why there is no Mountian Dew,but to deny a southener sweet tea is just plain wrong.

I know exactly what you mean.

 

[rwdavis2]

Why can't you just add sugar to regular tea? I have always wondered about this?

 

[NCgirl71]

I'd like to chime in . The reason why adding sugar to cold tea is not the same is b/c once tea is cold the sugar will not mix well. Thus it becomes like cold unsweet tea with sugar settling to the bottom Total different taste

 

[Brian Noble]

Why can't you just add sugar to regular tea? I have always wondered about this?

Because much more sugar dissolves in hot water, and it stays in solution when it cools. It's sort of like making simple syrup for your bar supplies; you have to heat the water to get it sweet enough.

 

[RealBlast3]

Though I live in NY and we call what you consider "sweet tea" "ice tea" over here, I too, have found it impossible to get it in an restaurants here either. They do the same thing Disney does if you order it - they tell you they will bring it to you unsweetened and you can add the sugar yourself. LOL It's awful that way.

At least some fast food places, like McDonalds, carry Nestea sweet teas from the drink dispensers. But otherwise, I have never had any waiter anywhere in NY be able to accommodate my request for real sweetened Ice Tea.

 

[NinaBella]

I am a Southerner that lives in Tampa, Florida and we have plenty of sweet tea in Florida. It must just be the specific restaurants you are visiting. I do understand and when a place does not offer sweet tea, I just order a soda instead.

However, if you must... they do make a liquid sweetner that will dissolve well that you can bring yourself. My son likes to mix tea and lemonade so that makes it sweet as well. Mixing lemonade is better than adding lemon anyways since it is a known fact that cut lemons at restaurants are the grossest items and have tested positive for feces. (google it)

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/lemon.asp

 

[chartle]

Why can't you just add sugar to regular tea? I have always wondered about this?

Sweet tea uses simple syrup to sweeten it. When you heat regular table sugar, a disaccharide, it breaks it down into two simpler sugars, monosaccarids, that taste sweeter.

As for why no sweet tea? I think it's because sweet tea is a "Southern" thing and only Nortern Florida is in the "South".

Just so you know big sweet tea fan. Like super sweet.

 

[LBIJim]

Perhaps there's not enough demand for it. WDW is in Florida, but the majority of visitors are NOT from the south.

 

[kittyab]

I'd like to chime in . The reason why adding sugar to cold tea is not the same is b/c once tea is cold the sugar will not mix well. Thus it becomes like cold unsweet tea with sugar settling to the bottom Total different taste

Yep, I grew up in the south you add the sugar while the tea is still hot/warm.

 

[MountainMouse]

This surprised me as well, just used to getting sweet tea in the south. I couldn't even get it at the McDonald's in the Orlando airport. I'm from Maryland which is south of the Mason Dixon but still in the North so sweet tea in restaurants is hard to come by and I'm very familiar with the difficulties of putting sugar in cold tea. Also, I typically end up stealing the little sugar packets from other tables because there are never enough.

 

[chrisxtwo]

Can't help with table service restaurants but Starbucks is where I get my sweet tea fix. There is one at MK, EPCOT, two at Downtown Disney and they are building one in the Studios.

 

[ken2]

I am a Southerner that lives in Tampa, Florida and we have plenty of sweet tea in Florida. It must just be the specific restaurants you are visiting. I do understand and when a place does not offer sweet tea, I just order a soda instead.

However, if you must... they do make a liquid sweetner that will dissolve well that you can bring yourself. My son likes to mix tea and lemonade so that makes it sweet as well. Mixing lemonade is better than adding lemon anyways since it is a known fact that cut lemons at restaurants are the grossest items and have tested positive for feces. (google it)

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/lemon.asp

We've been to over 20+ restraunts at DDW and have only had it at one restraunt so far.

 

[emldrl]

I got hooked on sweet tea while I was stationed in Charleston, SC, so I totally get it. Lucky for me, even though I live in the Midwest, we have sweet tea here just about everywhere! McDonald's, Waffle House, and almost every sit down restaurant we go to has it. I'm bummed to find out about WDW, but maybe they'll change it eventually? The whole sweet tea thing has really grown around here the last several years.

 

[ScottOKW2K]

I have been able to find some sweet tea in the World. Gold Peak is a bottled tea brand owned by Coca-Cola, which provided beverages for WDW. Some counter service locations will have a separate tea machine that may dispense sweet tea. In addition you may find it in the bottled beverage area of the store or CS location. I didn't look for it last trip, so I don't remember whether or not is was available.

 

[Sandy51]

We ate at 50's Prime Time earlier this month and my husband had sweet tea.



Sandy

 

[Art 1]

Sooooo why is it so hard to find sweet tea at Disney World?I understand why there is no Mountian Dew,but to deny a southener sweet tea is just plain wrong.The only place i have found sweet tea is San Angel Inn.We bring a huge cooler with Mountian Dew,swee tea and water with us every trip.It is not the same to take cold tea and then add sugar.Yuk!And no Melow Yelow is not the same as Dew!

There are many things not served at WDW that you can find "back home". They can't serve everything and why would you expect them to.

 

[lovethattink]

Years ago, they use to brew the tea at Columbia Harbour house. Now it's Gold Peak out of a dispenser, but it's drinkable. Not as good as you'd make at home, or McDonald's or Publix's.

Besides Columbia Harbour house, you'll also find it at Pecos Bills and Liberty Tree Tavern.

 

[nighttowll]

I've wondered about this too, but I think there is a greater outside influence of tourists from the north and Europe whose preferences tend to outweigh those of southerners, even though Florida is technically in the south. I mean it is not just the tea, the choices on the menus have never been the type of foods southerners eat for the most part. Most of the foods I see listed on the menus are pretty "exotic" compared to simple southern comfort foods. You just have to remember there is going to be a larger percentage of people from other places than from the south, so it makes sense to cater to them. Plus a lot of people who live in Florida are imports from other parts of the country, so it is not really as southern of a city as say Atlanta is from a cultural standpoint.

But back to the tea, I have never had any issues getting real sweet tea (not that awful canned stuff) at other sit-down chains outside of Disney in Orlando, and I didn't have any issues finding it at Citywalk either. I'm not sure about fast food places, I don't like the canned Nestle and Lipton stuff many of them serve. The best fast food places are going to be the fried chicken places as they usually have real brewed sweet tea as does Chic-Fil-A.

T-rex also has it in DTD because I thought the kids were going to kiss the waiter when he told them. They were having sweet tea withdrawal after a whole week at Disney without any. Which makes me wonder if Rainforest at AK has it as well. Our local RC does.

 

[karebear06]

Fort Wilderness has sweet tea as well.

Now, if I could only find some Pepsi...