• @accideath
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    66 days ago

    It’s primarily much sweeter due to the shitton of sugar

    • @Ziglin
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      16 days ago

      Only if you add sugar. (Sugar does NOT belong in tea!)

      • @accideath
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        16 days ago

        But it is an essential part of ice tea. Hot tea can be good with or without sugar, imo. Depends on the tea and my mood.

        • @Ziglin
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          15 days ago

          Tea does not need sugar, whether hot or iced (at least I don’t know anyone irl that puts sugar in tea (actually I just thought of one person but I don’t like them or talk to them much)). Sweetened drinks are extremely unhealthy and there’s probably a reason most places in the US serve unsweetened ice tea.

          On hot summer days I sometimes drink 3l of ice tea. That would be extremely bad if it was sweetened.

          • @accideath
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            15 days ago

            In my head (as a German), ice tea is almost always store bought like lipton ice tea. You very rarely get anything else anywhere. Restaurants don’t usually serve home made ice tea. It’s a soft drink. When I make myself tea at home, it’s almost always hot. Unsweetened black tea just tastes awful when it’s cold. The hot tea sometimes gets sugar, like when I make myself lemon tea (black tea + lemon juice + sugar), although I do like to use stevia instead of sugar for the same health reasons because I sometimes drink 2-3 pots (1.5l each) a day in winter and that would indeed be a lot of sugar.

            • @Ziglin
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              15 days ago

              When I have ice tea it’s usually a fruity black tea, still no sugar though.

              If my (hot) black tea gets too strong (I have a tendency to forget about the strainer) I just add (extra) milk, though that doesn’t sound like it would work for ice tea.