What is Southern Sweet Tea?

[sha_lyn]

I like desserts, but I really don't care for sweet drinks. DH OTOH says he doesn't like sweets/desserts but likes really sweet tea (like my aunts tea with 1 1/2 cups per gallon) and we joke that he likes a little coffee in his cup of sugar with cream.

 

[NewCrew42]

I love sweet tea, but do not need the calories from the sugar so I make it with Splenda.

And I add lemon!

 

[Ephany]

Today it was the only drink you could get at the local McDonalds except bottled water. There were some very unhappy people at lunchtime apparently.

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

Mmmm...McDonalds sweet tea is GREAT!

Also, real southern sweet tea = NO LEMON!!!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I would love to try some!

Any of you nice Southerners care to send some on up here to New England?

(I don't think I've ever seen it around, but I'll keep my eye out for it now.)

 

[What the Heck]

Mmmm...McDonalds sweet tea is GREAT!

Also, real southern sweet tea = NO LEMON!!!

Maybe at FSU!

Go Gators!

 

[pennst8r]

What is southern sweet tea? Its crack.

That's the major thing I miss about living in NC!

 

[paigeandmorgansmom]

My family is a big tea drinking family, but not that overly sweet tea you get at Mcdonalds. ( YUK) I just make a pitcher of unsweet tea and they add there own sweeter. None of us really like that overly sweet tea. I think it loses it tea taste.

 

[lulubelle]

Well, here in So Cal there is no such thing as Sweet Tea. Really, there is not.
But when visiting my grandma in Durham she took us out to a place called Biscuitville (I am not kidding) and we had the most fattening meal of my life (all sausage, biscuits, white gravy, waffles, butter, extra thick syrup) and Sweet Tea that was SO SWEET I COULD NOT DRINK IT!!!
It was way over the top for me and my sister. We like our tea strong, lemon flavored and maybe a little sweetner, not sugar, but sweetner. I guess that would be the Ca version of iced tea. Ha! And the food, too, I mean, it is hard to find a place that serves sausage and white gravy here, let alone a fast food restaurant that specializes in it. Blech!

Then later in the week she took us somewhere fairly upscale where we had BBQ and Brunswick Stew, and neither item resembled anything remotely close to BBQ or stew I have ever had (BBQ vinegarry and stew just "out there"), and again the dreaded sweet tea. We asked if they had any unsweetened tea, but no, what were we thinking? Anyway, it goes to show that different regions have different tastes and I don't care for the sweet tea, but for all those who love it - I say enjoy!

 

[paigeandmorgansmom]

Today I went to our local Burger King and wanted unsweet tea, they said they no longer sale it. They only sale sweet...YUK! so I ended up getting out of line and went to Wendy's. I guess more southern places are serving the sweet tea and doing away with unsweet.