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Dixie ping

Best Served with BBQ

[trimom]

To a Yankee, the offered beverage often sounds like “sway tay”.

No matter, it sure is tasty!

[sionnsar]

And unlike its summer-loving Northern counterpart, sweet tea is consumed year-round.

Unsweet iced tea is consumed year-round in the Northwest.

[Constitution Day]

But increased health consciousness as well as the growth of chain restaurants that cater to a national audience means unsweetened tea is becoming increasingly popular.

Heresy!

[Tarantulas]

Slow news day today? ;)

[Sybeck1]

In my house in Mississippi we don’t use sugar. It makes you fat and rots your teeth. Looking at a lot of my neighbors, they don’t live by this rule.

[lilylangtree]

Being a southerner living in the north, I love my mother’s tea that she boils in a pot with about 10 teabags, places in the pitcher afterwards, adds lots of sugar then refrigerate. Wow! It tastes better than any carbonated beverage.

[ryan71]

Sugar in tea - GOOD
Sugar in cornbread - BAD
Sugar in oatmeal - GOOD
Sugar in grits - BAD

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Order an iced tea at a restaurant in the Deep South or Texas, and the frosty beverage set before you likely will be a world away from what you’d be served in New York or Chicago.

I don't know about the rest of the South, but in Texas if you order iced tea at a chain restaurant, you'll usually get unsweetened tea. This has been true for the 30 years I've lived here. In fact, I didn't even know about the Southern concept of sweet tea until about 10 years ago.

[taxcontrol]

NO NO NO NO NO NO

No tea BAGS..... boooooo hisssssss

Tea leaves brewed and steeped

[linn37]

I was raised in Texas, I have always ordered my tea unsweetened.

I drink about a pitcher of it a day and I think its much better when served with deserts then the sweet version.

[July 4th]

Sweet tea, a.k.a. instant diabetes mix.

[Boston Tea Party]

The ‘sweet tea only’ thing was true 20 years ago, but more recently, in both Carolinas, I have been asked if I wanted my tea sweetened or unsweetened.

[rimtop56]

If you boil the sugar in the water for a few minutes, it tastes a million times better. Just stirring sugar into the tea tastes terrible.

[trisham]

I’m fine without any sugar at all.

[Cecily]

I drank a cold glass just this morning with my breakfast toast. Hot tea with milk and sugar is great too (loved by Anglo-Saxon Southerners).

[Larry Lucido]

LOVE sweet tea, catfish and hushpuppies. Best place for that (that I can recall) is “Top of the River” in Anniston, Alabama.

[CarrotAndStick]

The trick to extracting the best of the flavour out of tea is to put the tea leaves into the water immediately after allowing the boiling water to cool to slightly below boiling point.

Some say that an old teapot with its stains, is critical too, but I’m not so sure.

And Darjeeling tea, by the way.

[Red Badger]

I drink Sweet Green Tea............Southern Chinese tradition.......

[chesley]

Full disclosure, I’m as Southern as it is possible to get.

I will drink sweet tea, but I don’t like it. It goes back to my childhood, my mother wouldn’t let me drink it, and I acquired a taste for unsweetened (an un-lemoned) tea that persists to this day.

In my twenties, there was many a party where I went thirsty because all the tea was sweetened, however, as I have gotten older, I’ve learned to drink it when nothing else was available.

Unsweetened Lipton tea! It doesn’t get any better than that. It’s the only drink for the hot summer days when your body needs fluid. Tastes better than water, and quenches thirst better, too.