What do you mean no sweet tea?

[kamik86]

This post makes me laugh. I am from New England and I remember making this face book post the first time I went to GA for work.

"Note: Ordering Sweetened Ice Tea in GA does NOT get you the same thing as ordering Sweetened Ice Tea at home."

The places I go to in GA have ice teas with fruit in it and you can tell its an area used to dealing with those not from the area (near many hotels and a miltary base) because if you forget to specify they ask if you want it sweetened. Sweetened with fruit it WAYY to sweet. The flavor from the crushed raspberries in my tea is plenty sweet enough for me.

to the posters about a fluffernutter... I can pass up those but now you made me REALLy want to buy fluff for hot cocoa. If anyone things mini marshmallows in cocoa is good you NEED to try this... lets just say its about as different as ice tea with sugar is from sweet tea!

 

[nickle831]

This post makes me laugh. I am from New England and I remember making this face book post the first time I went to GA for work.

"Note: Ordering Sweetened Ice Tea in GA does NOT get you the same thing as ordering Sweetened Ice Tea at home."

The places I go to in GA have ice teas with fruit in it and you can tell its an area used to dealing with those not from the area (near many hotels and a miltary base) because if you forget to specify they ask if you want it sweetened. Sweetened with fruit it WAYY to sweet. The flavor from the crushed raspberries in my tea is plenty sweet enough for me.

to the posters about a fluffernutter... I can pass up those but now you made me REALLy want to buy fluff for hot cocoa. If anyone things mini marshmallows in cocoa is good you NEED to try this... lets just say its about as different as ice tea with sugar is from sweet tea!

Now I want to try a fluffa nutta sandwich and some fluff mixed in my hot cocoa. Who knew that's what I would take from a sweet tea thread. LOL

 

[tjevans]

I cannot begin to tell you the times I have witnessed doth in WDW and DL folks saying "its not TOO sweet is it? "

No southerner has ever uttered those words when it comes to the amount of sugar in tea. Probably one of the reasons for our rates of "dia-beet-us."

 

[lmcarr49]

No southerner has ever uttered those words when it comes to the amount of sugar in tea. Probably one of the reasons for our rates of "dia-beet-us."

The only places I've noticed the tea is way too sweet is McDonald's and Bojangles.

 

[tjevans]

The only places I've noticed the tea is way too sweet is McDonald's and Bojangles.

I used to work at Mickey D's. For a 5 gallon brew of tea, we'd add a 5-pound bag of sugar.

Being a true southerner, that still isn't sweet enough for me.

 

[tjevans]

All this talk of tea, fluffernutters, and other regional foods has me wondering.

What's the deal with "southern fried chicken?" Isn't all fried chicken "southern?"

I mean, I've never seen northern, eastern, or western fried chicken.

The places that have "southern fried chicken" are the same places that serve sweet corn bread (which is a northern dish, not a southern one) and only un-sweet tea.

 

[lmcarr49]

I'm originally from MA and I definitely make my cornbread sweet. Can't have it any other way.

I think the southern fried chicken is dipped in buttermilk. That's what my neighbor told me. I just fry mine in flour.

 

[lugnut33]

Sweet tea is disgusting. Might as well take some muddy water and add a pound of sugar. Gross.

 

[kamik86]

I don't know if southern fried chicken is southern due to the buttermilk but if so I just learned to make my oven "fried" chicken "southern" and it is SOO much better.

The only problem is grocery stores around here (middle of no where western MA) don't have buttermilk. I have to wait and make it on weeks we go to Albany for some reason.

 

[yankeepenny]

fluffa nutta Yankee girl here again.

Called my sister last nite to verify Fluff was in my xmas box.


Regarding southern fried chicken: I think the secret ingredient is Love.

Sure tasteslike it anyways.

 

[RustManFan]

Many places besides WDW make the unsweetened version hard to get... I know since my family has been going unsweetened for generations!

 

[ajwolfe]

Hmmm, now I can't wait to try Fluff in my hot cocoa!!!

And as a fellow sweet tea and pepsi drinker, I know how you feel. We have to bring Pepsi products with us when we come down.

 

[JZCubed]

Hilarious for two reasons:

My wife ordered an Iced Coffee in the Epcot Starbucks yesterday and received a SWEETENED version. We both drink our coffee black/no sugar and would never have ordered a sweetened coffee. They gave her a bigger one without sugar to replace their mistake.

As you might imagine, we like our tea unsweetened as well. But it does seem like a missing link in customer service to simply offer a sugar package.

I have lived in the South and understand that places carry both sweetened and unsweetened tea OR they have an assortment of sweeteners in what is akin to a condiment caddy for sauces. Of all the things that Disney does do for their customers, this does seem to be a purposeful oversight because the OP is not the only person from the South who visits Disney.

Mountain Dew is not a Coca-Cola product.

 

[kamik86]

Hmmm, now I can't wait to try Fluff in my hot cocoa!!!

And as a fellow sweet tea and pepsi drinker, I know how you feel. We have to bring Pepsi products with us when we come down.

Went home and told my husband about this post. He had no idea that marshmallow fluff was a new england thing. We thought everyone had it. We thought everyone had fluffernutters too because the recipe was on the back of the tub.

 

[saskdw]

DW and DS live off products called "Nestea Cool" and " Brisk Iced Tea". They were very annoyed to find out it's quite an adventure to find these products at WDW.

There are a couple of pop machines at CSR that have Nestea Cool. If I remember correctly the candy store at MK on Main St has it as well.

 

[Robo]

grocery stores around here (middle of no where western MA) don't have buttermilk. I have to wait and make it on weeks we go to Albany for some reason.

How to make buttermilk.

Many more of these kind of links on the web.

 

[lmcarr49]

Peanut butter and fluff is heavenly. It's so sweet and gooey.

 

[chelseabun76]

DW and DS live off products called "Nestea Cool" and " Brisk Iced Tea". They were very annoyed to find out it's quite an adventure to find these products at WDW.

There are a couple of pop machines at CSR that have Nestea Cool. If I remember correctly the candy store at MK on Main St has it as well.

LOL We love Nestea Cool....

I remember my first trip to the states, ordering what I thought would be iced tea, only to take one sip and spit it back into the glass. LOL!!!

Not sure what I'll be drinking this trip, trying not to drink pop but don't want to just have water everywhere when we're on the dining plan! LOL!

 

[cfriend416]

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.

Sorry, not to sound like a jerk, but this is not correct... Simple syrup is made by dissolving sugar in water NOT by breaking down the disaccharide. There is a type of baking syrup that uses enzymes or acids to break down sucrose into glucose and fructose, but that's not what simple syrup is. Simple syrup makes a sweeter drink than sugar because its a supersaturated solution - more sugar dissolves in hot water than cold water, and the sugar will stay in solution when it cools.

For the record, sweet tea is nasty! Nothing beats ice cold unsweetened tea!

 

[got2sammies]

Funny story... My hubby and I first visit... The Uno on 535 didn't have sweet tea...
Hubby- you don't have sweet tea! This is the south right?
Waiter- no sir we succeeded from the south

We about died laughing.. Coral reef didn't have sweet tea on Veterans Day.. The Peak tea is ok.. But not the same! We asked everywhere we ate.. No sweet tea...