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Why does 'Murika suck at making iced tea?

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Just to let the unaware know, if you drink >1 gallon of black tea a day, you're likely to get fluorosis of the bones, which basically means that your bones will decay. Intersperse your tea water.
 
preslove said:
Just to let the unaware know, if you drink >1 gallon of black tea a day, you're likely to get fluorosis of the bones, which basically means that your bones will decay. Intersperse your tea water.
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We don't drink black tea. It's sweetened or unsweetened.
 
Pffft. People and their sweet tea.

Unsweetened tea (brewed from actual leaves) and black coffee is where it's at. If I want sugar I'll get a fucking soda.
 
preslove said:
It's all black tea. And if you drink too much of it your bones will start developing holes in them.
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All tea leaves accumulate fluoride. Black tea (what I saw stated Brick Tea) just may have a likelihood of having a higher accumulation.

This fluoride poisoning can also happen simply by drinking far too much fluoride in any event, apparently. I've always had fluoride in water, at least I think so, and never had this negative impact (first thing I found when I searched for "fluorosis of the bones" led to arguments to stop adding fluoride to municipal water).


But 1 gallon is a lot of tea, and even if it's green tea, it's probably not a good idea to consume that much every single day. There's some good in tea, but there comes a point where too much good turns into bad. 🙂
 
destrekor said:
All tea leaves accumulate fluoride. Black tea (what I saw stated Brick Tea) just may have a likelihood of having a higher accumulation.

This fluoride poisoning can also happen simply by drinking far too much fluoride in any event, apparently. I've always had fluoride in water, at least I think so, and never had this negative impact (first thing I found when I searched for "fluorosis of the bones" led to arguments to stop adding fluoride to municipal water).


But 1 gallon is a lot of tea, and even if it's green tea, it's probably not a good idea to consume that much every single day. There's some good in tea, but there comes a point where too much good turns into bad. 🙂
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Everywhere I've read has said 6-8 cups/day to get the full benefits. Which is around half a gallon or slightly less. Note that's unsweetened or using honey. Shovel sugar into the stuff and you basically eliminate any health benefits.

Getting skeletal fluorosis requires drinking insane amounts of tea for an extended period of time (remember reading one case where a lady had drunk 1-2 gallons a day for 30 years before developing overt symptoms).

Also, the better quality tea you drink (essentially, the less processing it goes through), the less fluoride there is.
 
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irishScott said:
Everywhere I've read has said 6-8 cups/day to get the full benefits. Which is around half a gallon or slightly less.

Getting skeletal fluorosis requires drinking insane amounts of tea for an extended period of time (remember reading one case where a lady had drunk 1-2 gallons a day for 30 years before developing overt symptoms).

Also, the better quality tea you drink (essentially, the less processing it goes through), the less fluoride there is.
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Yeah, it has to be black, because oolongs and greens are picked sooner and are much less concentrated than black tea. Basically, if you drink iced tea all day, every day, your bones are fucked.
 
If tea were meant to be sweet, it would come with cubes of sugar. Sweet tea is damn disgusting. Lipton or Tetley tea out of a bag, brewed in the sun or by a machine, is the best tea. Sweet tea is an abomination.
 
irishScott said:
Everywhere I've read has said 6-8 cups/day to get the full benefits. Which is around half a gallon or slightly less. Note that's unsweetened or using honey. Shovel sugar into the stuff and you basically eliminate any health benefits.

Getting skeletal fluorosis requires drinking insane amounts of tea for an extended period of time (remember reading one case where a lady had drunk 1-2 gallons a day for 30 years before developing overt symptoms).

Also, the better quality tea you drink (essentially, the less processing it goes through), the less fluoride there is.
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Well yeah.

But there's a small difference between 8 cups of tea every day, and 16 cups of tea every day. 😉

That used to be a fairly regular occurrence, at least to some degree, because drinking tea was usually a safer proposition than drinking water (since boiling the water for tea would produce cleaner water than drinking straight water, which wasn't boiled). But this is also a rare issue now, since almost everywhere in the world has access to at least a somewhat decent water supply. Still, it's an issue in some parts of the world, and dealing with bone health issues when your over 50 is probably better than dealing with water-borne pathogens when your 14.
 
slag said:
If tea were meant to be sweet, it would come with cubes of sugar. Sweet tea is damn disgusting. Lipton or Tetley tea out of a bag, brewed in the sun or by a machine, is the best tea. Sweet tea is an abomination.
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Sweet tea is delicious.

But it's so bad for you.

As someone noted earlier, Half and Half is the way to go. Still, I rarely drink tea and I'll settle for half and half - but I wouldn't even drink that frequently throughout the day, as tasty as it is that still gives you too much sugar after a few glasses.
 
irishScott said:
Screw demographics, tea is the 2nd most popular drink in the world. After water.

Here's a good breakdown:
http://blog.mightyleaf.com/why-tea-is-the-most-popular-beverage-in-the-world-after-water/
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Yeah, I was afraid of overloading his narrow view of the world and wanted to try to break it in gently.

ultimatebob said:
Nothing against Patrick Stewart, but Earl Gray iced tea is friggin nasty!
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I agree. I used to drink Earl Grey because I was a nerd and then I just couldn't take it anymore. I've mostly settled on English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast, Darjeeling, Pu-er, Oolong. I throw in some of the flower ones and barley every so often for variety on top of that. 😛
 
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Earl Grey iced is probably my favorite iced. I make all kinds, none with sugar, but I look forward to Earl Grey the most.
 
Aikouka said:
Yeah, but how many places on that list would think that tea should be cold? 😛
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I would've found a better statistic if there was a claim that iced tea sucked but....

"tea sucks, period."

I drink it hot or cold depending on the season.
 
Stayed at a hotel near London and ordered iced tea with my dinner. The waitress goes over to the kitchen and I hear this exchange with the cook:

"How do you make iced tea?"
"You make tea.... then you put ice in it."

LOL.
 
ElFenix said:
i shouldn't have to say unsweetened. nothing was added, nothing was taken away. it's just tea. stop your southern carpetbagging into my state.

<--- doesn't live in the south
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There are places in the north where Iced Tea defaults to sweetened? I don't effing believe it.

I didn't even know you could find sweet tea up there. If I wanted it, I would always have to sweeten it myself. Kind of pointless, though. Because if you order iced tea at a restaurant in yankee land it's always going to come from a mix so you might as well not even bother.

can't find it out here in NorCal, either.
 
As someone raised in the South, I can't drink the near-syrup that is most sweet tea down here 🙂 When I get tea (while I was still in Georgia), I would get 1/4 sweetened, and the rest unsweetened and thats almost always workable for me 🙂

As for the North, I haven't had tea in a restaurant that I ever liked, and no one up here I know actually brews their tea except me (I have an old coffee maker I actually use for the purpose).

I didn't realise the north was so different from the south in regards to iced tea until I moved up here.
 
zinfamous said:
There are places in the north where Iced Tea defaults to sweetened? I don't effing believe it.

I didn't even know you could find sweet tea up there. If I wanted it, I would always have to sweeten it myself. Kind of pointless, though. Because if you order iced tea at a restaurant in yankee land it's always going to come from a mix so you might as well not even bother.

can't find it out here in NorCal, either.
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I found several places in the NW (Oregon) that sell sweet tea. Basically people that moved from the south that wanted to open up a restaurant. That or something that's trying to sell on "southern BBQ" usually has some attempt at sweet tea.
 
McDonalds sweet tea is better than what is generally served up north, or useless-ass 'unsweetenable' tea in general.

Do they serve brewed, sweetened-while-hot tea at fast joints up north?
 
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