• @Protoknuckles
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    11 month ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month 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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          41 month 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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        01 month 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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      51 month 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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        21 month ago

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

        • bjorney
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          1 month 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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            11 month ago

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

        • @captainlezbian
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          11 month 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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        11 month 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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          21 month ago

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

          • @Protoknuckles
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            21 month ago

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