Tea

[HAL9000]

Can you do me a favor and write a report on what methods are currently available to unsweeten sweet beverages?

I have literally no idea, but the term "unsweetened" would mean exactly that and that alone.

 

[Howard]

I have literally no idea, but the term "unsweetened" would mean exactly that and that alone.

If that was the point you were trying to make, then I concede it. But you really are an asshole (not that it means much to you, I know).

 

[HAL9000]

If that was the point you were trying to make, then I concede it. But you really are an asshole (not that it means much to you, I know).

You saying it means nothing, you don't know me. It's like me telling you, you like eating dark chocolate.

 

[Howard]

You saying it means nothing, you don't know me. It's like me telling you, you like eating dark chocolate.

Why are you telling me something I already know?

 

[HAL9000]

Why are you telling me something I already know?

Lol. That made me smile.

 

[lxskllr]

I guess only the yanks chimed in on this one...how the hell do you drink tea unsweetened....blasphemy I say. Do you drink sodas unsweetened too?

That would be seltzer water, and the answer is yes ;^)

 

[disappoint]

FYI - brewing that way can cause sickness. It doesn't get hot enough to kill any microbes that might exist on the teabag or in the tea or in the container you use. Add a day or so in mild warm sun and a bacteria/virus explosion is possible.

You think you can grow bacteria in full sunlight? I'd like to see you try. Go ahead stick a petri dish out in the sun, put some bacteria in there and see if they grow. Not only will they not grow, the ones you put in there will die from the UV rays. Not to mention there shouldn't be any bacteria in the tea bag or container anyway, what are you dipping them in the toilet or something?

 

[lxskllr]

...what are you dipping them in the toilet or something?

???

How do you add flavor?!

 

[DrPizza]

If I'm in a hurry, the cold brew bags of tea (which I suspect are just a dissolvable powder in a bag) will due in a pinch. Sun brewed tea beats it though. On a hot weekend day when I'm working in the sun, I'll drink up to 2 gallons of it during the course of an afternoon.

edit: to ya'allllll in the South: sweet tea? NO wonder so many people have diabetes. That stuff is sickeningly sweet.

 

[bobdole369]

Definitely is it just tea? or is it tea that is made sweet then unsweetened? Or what?

Here in Merr-Ka folks in the south (Our most beloved conservative and charming religious folk) invented a drink they call "sweet tea". (They actually pronounce it "sweetea" (one word like that.) Its basically normal tea, which they then add sugar while warm, keeping the temp up and adding more and more sugar until its supersaturated, such as what they do with soda.

The resulting supersweet concoction is an abomination to tea drinkers everywhere, but we seem to love it here in the states. SO much that its become the defacto standard for when you order "iced tea" or simply "tea" in most places. So if You just order tea you get that slop, instead of lightly sweetened (like with 2 lumps) tea.

Therefore we have come to call tea that isn't sweet tea - "unsweetened tea".

You think you can grow bacteria in full sunlight? I'd like to see you try. Go ahead stick a petri dish out in the sun, put some bacteria in there and see if they grow. Not only will they not grow, the ones you put in there will die from the UV rays. Not to mention there shouldn't be any bacteria in the tea bag or container anyway, what are you dipping them in the toilet or something?

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/suntea.asp

Snopes says its true, and i've read the CDC report. There IS bacteria on teabags and in tea and brewing it in the sun might fucking kill you.

Just saying.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

How very mature of you.

Not very, but justified.

Much like you perhaps felt that you didn't need to act mature in regards to Hal eventually..

I suppose what goes around comes around.

 

[Brigandier]

Here in Merr-Ka folks in the south (Our most beloved conservative and charming religious folk) invented a drink they call "sweet tea". (They actually pronounce it "sweetea" (one word like that.) Its basically normal tea, which they then add sugar while warm, keeping the temp up and adding more and more sugar until its supersaturated, such as what they do with soda.

The resulting supersweet concoction is an abomination to tea drinkers everywhere, but we seem to love it here in the states. SO much that its become the defacto standard for when you order "iced tea" or simply "tea" in most places. So if You just order tea you get that slop, instead of lightly sweetened (like with 2 lumps) tea.

Therefore we have come to call tea that isn't sweet tea - "unsweetened tea".


http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/suntea.asp

Snopes says its true, and i've read the CDC report. There IS bacteria on teabags and in tea and brewing it in the sun might fucking kill you.

Just saying.

There are more ways to die than there are to live. I've drank sun tea my entire life and only died once, it doesn't happen often.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

If I'm in a hurry, the cold brew bags of tea (which I suspect are just a dissolvable powder in a bag) will due in a pinch. Sun brewed tea beats it though. On a hot weekend day when I'm working in the sun, I'll drink up to 2 gallons of it during the course of an afternoon.

edit: to ya'allllll in the South: sweet tea? NO wonder so many people have diabetes. That stuff is sickeningly sweet.

Aye, sun brewed (in Sheffield it's sun tasted tea) tea does go by the gallons in Sheffield too.

Don't drink it too late though, there isn't much caffeine in it but xanthines add up, i probably don't need to tell you that though.

 

[The-Noid]

I drink tea every day. I have about 75 tins at work and when we built out house built a second tea pantry as I have roughly 500 tins at home.

I switch on an almost daily basis based on what I am in the mood for. Have built up the collection over the years from teaspring, teasource and adagio.

Cheers!

 

[Howard]

Not very, but justified.

Much like you perhaps felt that you didn't need to act mature in regards to Hal eventually..

I suppose what goes around comes around.

I find it interesting that you consider the stating of facts (on a forum, no less) to be immature. A self-defense mechanism, to be sure.

 

[Born2bwire]

I find it interesting that you consider the stating of facts (on a forum, no less) to be immature. A self-defense mechanism, to be sure.

Well, he is from P&N.

 

[MovingTarget]

My great grandparents were Scottish, and they brought their tea-drinking habits to the states circa 1900. I do enjoy black tea with a little bit of milk on occasion - even in the hottest of weather.

However, this being the South, we do enjoy iced sweet tea. You northerners and British don't know what you are missing on a hot day. The sweeter, the better. (comercially, Nestea doesn't cut it...try Milo's sweet tea instead)

 

[Howard]

Well, he is from P&N.

oh god kill him with fire

 

[nublikescake]

Love it.

I drink green and white teas (whole leaf, my fave being Jasmine) from Adagio, and get black tea (mostly Assam) regularly when relatives visit India. For quick, cheap tea at work I drink Salada (green tea bags).

Always without sugar, though I will add honey to black or green tea on some occasions in the winter or to make iced tea in the heat of the summer.
I'll add fresh mint to my tea sometimes, for a refreshing and stomach-settling drink.

I'm a caffeine connoisseur; I love to drink coffee and energy drinks, as well.

I was totally with you till the last line. I am a green-tea/black tea only kinda guy...no milk, no sugar.