• 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.