Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[AnchorAlum]

Isn't all tea sweet, y'all?

Discuss.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

Isn't all tea sweet, y'all?

Discuss.

Ha!
Sweet tea is NOT just tea with sugar. Sometimes the unknowing will suggest that you "just put sugar in your tea". That is not sweet tea.

You have to sweeten the tea while it is HOT in order to have the sugar melt and disperse evenly. If you just stir sugar into cold tea you do not have a consistent sweetness, and you end up with white gunk in the bottom of the glass. Yuck. That is tacky.

We don't like tacky in the South.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

Isn't all tea sweet, y'all?

Discuss.

"Sweet tea" is redundant. "Unsweet tea" is an abomination and makes the angels cry.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Sweet tea is NOT just tea with sugar. Sometimes the unknowing will suggest that you "just put sugar in your tea". That is not sweet tea.

You have to sweeten the tea while it is HOT in order to have the sugar melt and disperse evenly. If you just stir sugar into cold tea you do not have a consistent sweetness, and you end up with white gunk in the bottom of the glass. Yuck. That is tacky.

We don't like tacky in the South.

LOL.

We always made tea with simple syrup. Steep the tea in the simple syrup (2 cups water, 2 cups sugar) while it's hot, and then dilute with the necessary amount of water to get a gallon of tea.

The angels will rejoice.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Ha!
Sweet tea is NOT just tea with sugar. Sometimes the unknowing will suggest that you "just put sugar in your tea". That is not sweet tea.

You have to sweeten the tea while it is HOT in order to have the sugar melt and disperse evenly. If you just stir sugar into cold tea you do not have a consistent sweetness, and you end up with white gunk in the bottom of the glass. Yuck. That is tacky.

We don't like tacky in the South.

Speaking of tea, a few years ago, I attended a convention at USC and fell in love with South Carolina! Over the course of the weekend, I know I drank my weight in tea. A colleague and I were so enamored with it that we asked the restaurant how they made it. They told us that they make simple syrup and use the syrup in the tea. I made it at home and it was just the same. The server told us that she adds lemon juice to the simple syrup at home to flavor it.