Is lemonade with tea just sweet tea?
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February 1st, 2021
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If you squeeze lemon into your iced tea, it really enhances the flavor dramatically. (What’s going on there??) Some are known to mix lemonade and iced tea. This seems like it is still just sweet tea with lots of lemon.
Look at it this way: if you put a tablespoon or two of concentrated tea into a glass of lemonade, it would still pretty much be lemonade.
Iced Tea seems like it is designed for lemon’s enhancement of it.
So, is mixing lemonade with Iced Tea the basis of a new third beverage, or just more of one of the other two.
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Depends how much sugar you use in your lemonade. Sweet tea has a tremendous amount of sugar. Add enough lemonade for sweet tea sugar content and the tea might get extremely lemony.
I’m assuming you are not conflating sweet tea with sweetened tea.
Sweet tea and lemonade is called an Arnold Palmer. It is available in cans.
No. For one thing, a lot of us like iced tea with lemon, but with no sugar.
You might have a case for iced tea + lemon being just iced tea. But your assumption ( a common one, in the south) that people like sweet tea, is just plain false.
^^^^In my area, in eastern NC, you can only get sweet tea at any of the restaurants, there is no ice tea without sugar a available.^^^^
@Tropical_Willie When I lived in NC we could get unsweetened iced tea, what part of the NC are you in? I made the mistake once of ordering regular tea and they gave me sweet tea. It is still beyond me that regular tea would be perceived as the one with sugar added, but when in Rome, just have to use the language of the Romans. The South uses sweet and unsweet, which in a noisy restaurant can easily be heard incorrectly, because the words are almost exactly the same. Why not use regular tea or plain tea and sweet and make it really easy? Oh well, so many things in life are like that.
As with everything, it’s all a matter of proportion. Squeezing some lemon into sweet tea is not the same as mixing lemonade with iced tea.
@elbanditoroso Civilized Atlanta, I live in Eastern NC.
You can go to Denny’s and couple other restaurants (national chains) but they have to make the tea by boiling water and waiting for the tea to infuse. . . . put on ice cubes and serve.
We call Lemonade and tea Arnold Palmer here, too, even if it’s homemade.
I hate them personally, but I adore sweet tea. Some places make it too sweet, like McDonalds, so I prefer my own or unsweetened at most restaurants.
@KNOWITALL At McD’s make it ¾ unsweet and ¼ sweet.
@JLeslie Thanks! I havent got many during Covid there but in summer I will remember that! It about killed me with sugar the first try. I’m not THAT southern haha!
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