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Contributor: AndroAngel AndroAngel
I have 1 1/2 cups of sugar to a gallon of iced tea... if I'm going easy on the sugar.

On the other hand, it depends on the tea itself if I put sugar into my hot teas. If it's a really good house blend, or a fine green tea, I sometimes drink it without sugar.
10/29/2011
Contributor: Peggi Peggi
I love sugar in my tea. A pitcher of tea needs at least a cup and a half, preferably two or three. Yeah, I'm a diabetic waiting to happen...
10/29/2011
Contributor: EJ EJ
Unsweetened.
10/30/2011
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by Ansley
I can't ever remember a time when there wasn't a gallon of tea hanging out in the fridge. Mom always made it with a full cup of sugar and you could see the sugar form a syrup at the bottom of the jug. I never thought much about it until I met ... more
SWEEEEETTTTT tea. , however, I live in the SOUTHERN USA. Even now, I went to a diner in Detroit and asked for "sweet tea" and the waitress brought me a teabag, hot water container and a basket of sugar packets!!!!!
10/30/2011
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by Jul!a
I do enjoy sweet tea, but I think my favorite is making unsweetened tea and than adding sugar to that and drinking the tea through a straw so I can crunch the sugar as I drink it.
TOO FUNNY. I enjoy that too, but no matter how much sugar you add to cold tea, you can NEVER get it as sweet as making real sweet tea...with sugar added when HOT.
10/30/2011
Contributor: mpfm mpfm
I like my tea unsweetened and pretty weak.
10/31/2011
Contributor: Chilipepper Chilipepper
UNsweet. Sugared tea makes me sick. I ALWAYS have to specify 'unsweet' whenever I go out and they still sometimes don't get it.

I've lived in the south for most of the past 25 years of my life, and I still couldn't get into it. My family's from the mid-west (virtually The North) and my dad and I are avid iced tea drinkers (yes, even Sun Tea). We keep joking that we should open up a barbecue place with unsweet tea and properly smoked meats and call it "Damn Yankee Barbecue" because there won't be ANYTHING served with sugar in it.
10/31/2011
Contributor: Ansley Ansley
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Originally posted by Bignuf
TOO FUNNY. I enjoy that too, but no matter how much sugar you add to cold tea, you can NEVER get it as sweet as making real sweet tea...with sugar added when HOT.
I never add sugar when the tea is hot. That's how you get that funky ass syrup in the bottom. I let it cool to room temp, add water, then add the sugar and stir vigorously.
10/31/2011