• slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This seems like a US thing I’m too European to understand

    (aka. they bring us the ingredients, and we make our own tea at the restaurant table)

    • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      What’s called sweet tea in the US is overwhelmingly sweet. That was my reaction to it the first time I tried it. It’s so sweet, the only way you can get that much sugar in it is if you dissolve that sugar in hot tea.

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          1 year ago

          I don’t know if you need to be told this.

          Pay the money and buy real maple syrup, not ‘pancake syrup.’ Real maple syrup is one of the best tastes on the planet.

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            1 year ago

            I’m aware of the existence and superiority of maple syrup. I only use Aunt Jemima in this example because that’s what oversweetened tea tastes like to me: shit.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yeah in the US they have this thing called sweet tea (some places have a choice between sweet and unsweetened tea).

      To make sweet tea they just unload a tanker truck full of gum syrup into cold tea. That’s what it tastes like to me.