• bjorney
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    278 days ago

    It’s sweet tea in the United States.

    In Canada “Iced Tea” means “sweet tea” most of the time

    • @[email protected]
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      148 days ago

      Why are people downvoting you? Iced tea in Canada is sweet. Think things like Brisk or Nestea. If you order iced tea at a restaurant here, it’s coming out if the same machine as the pop (syrup+water) just not carbonated.

    • @Protoknuckles
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      18 days ago

      Really? I thought iced tea was unsweetened when I visited Canada, but I could be misremembering.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 days ago

          Alright that’s funny.
          Doubly so if you have ever had southern sweet tea where you could probably put a stick in it and get rock candy back out.

          • bjorney
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            48 days ago

            I’ve definitely ordered one when I was down south, poured 2/3rds out, and topped it up with water, and it was still comparable to nestea

        • @Protoknuckles
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          08 days ago

          Ok? Like…it means no sugar. Just tea and ice. It’s my default drink. Pure leaf and gold peak make it. 0 calories. Don’t know what to tell you?

      • bjorney
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        58 days ago

        If you order an iced tea in Canada you are getting Nestea/Brisk like 95% of the time. Both are sweet teas, but are marketed and labelled as “Iced Tea”, not “Sweet Tea” - ask our American beverage overlords Coke/Pepsi why

        If you are in a cafe, or some other place where the expectation is that they brew their own, then yes, it’s generally unsweetened - but it’s also usually explicitly labelled as such on the menu so you know whether you are getting brewed tea vs a glass of corn syrup

        • @FlexibleToast
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          27 days ago

          Because those aren’t sweet teas… At least not as sweet as actual sweet tea in the south.

          • bjorney
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            7 days ago

            I’m thought @[email protected] was being sarcastic, but lo and behold, people actually consider 33g of sugar per serving “unsweetened”

            • @FlexibleToast
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              17 days ago

              I mean, it is a tea that is sweet, but it’s not sweet tea.

          • @captainlezbian
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            17 days ago

            Yeah it’s more of a semi sweet tea. Sweet tea is a syrup. Like, literally most home recipes I’ve heard call to add sugar until it stops absorbing while hot

        • @Protoknuckles
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          18 days ago

          Brisk makes me so sad. I’ll just do a soda instead at that point. I’ll do unsweetened iced tea or sweet tea, but not that trash.

          • flicker
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            28 days ago

            Tastes like it was designed by someone who had never had tea in their lives.

            • @Protoknuckles
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              28 days ago

              It has, like, a chemically burning aftertaste too. Or I’m allergic to something in it, I dunno.