Sweet tea or unsweetened tea

I am in Canada so it is sweetened [].

ORIGINAL: Truley

Few places offer sweet tea, I add my own. And your right, some places here offer tea syrup[:-].

Oh I hate that syrup![:'(]  It is sickening sweet but also it adds so much extra calories.  I thank my lucky stars for liking it unsweetened because I drink so much tea.  Some days I drink an entire pitcher JUST BY MYSELF.  I am a tea glutton, and if I added 2 cups of sugar to my daily pitcher of tea I would be adding over 1500 extra calories a day to my diet!  Man...  that is shocking to think about that actually i would be as big as a house! [&o]  I would have to seriously break my "tea" addiction.

if I added 2 cups of sugar to my daily pitcher of tea I would be adding over 1500 extra calories a day to my diet!

 
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If I had thought of it that way, I would have lived off of sweet tea last week, when I was trying to gain weight.  I can't believe just how many empty calories that is.

Even though it is pricey and because im a diabetic I now use this. 1 per gallon.
 
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[]I LOVE splenda!  It is the only artificial sweetner I feel is worth using.  thanks for the info on that Truley.  I haven't seen those packs before. 

I just put 5 or 6 tea bags (sometimes flavored, sometimes herbal, sometimes plain old Lipton) in a gallon jar full of water and set it out on the patio table for a few hours.  When the tea is ready, I put it in the fridge and sweeten it by the glass with a packet or two of equal or splenda and a squeeze of lemon. I think now they have tea bags meant to work right away in cold water, but I haven't tried them yet.
 
Joyce

I found them purely by accident in the kool aid section of the store.

UNsweetened tea all the way.  Like Shelly, I'm a tea junkie!  I can't function in the am until I have my green tea & then I move over to unsweetened tea.  If I'm on the road & can't find unsweetened tea, I go into withdrawals.  Diet tea just makes no sense to me @ all.

Well now we are going to see who are the true southerners that were born here, Sweet tea is one of the tests

sweet tea for me. i am trying to cut back on my tea intake, but i could never drink it unsweetened.

plus my wife is allergic to artificial sweetners, so i dont have to worry about her using any of that!

Bullymom you could have stopped at "Mamaw" and I woulda KNOWN 'sweet' *grin*
 
I love grits, and I even love hot hardboiled eggs, boiled peanuts and I mix honey with my peanut butter -- all these things I've "learned" since I moved south ....
 
but UN-sweetened tea FOREVER.  In fact, TONS of ice cos I don't like it strong either.
 
In the "South" folks ... well, you "Northerners" don't even get it.  "sweet tea" is made while the water's still at least 211 degrees and they add the sugar when it is HOT so it will melt more sugar than you can put in 'cold' tea.  I about died the first time I saw someone BOIL teabags in water and add sugar by the cupful so it would all dissolve.  I said "errrrr ... you might want to NOT **boil** those teabags -- might make it a bit bitter!!"
 
Reply?  "You gotta BOWLLL IT ... that's how you get the sugar to melt!!" ("bowl" = "boil" in Northern-speak!)
 
( aaahhhh, I guess you can take the girl out of western NY state, but you can't take the NY outa the girl!!)
 
No offense meant to anyone -- but Bullymom you cracked me up.  When I was in college up in Pensacola and my roommate spoke about her "Mamaw" and "Papaw" I nearly cracked up.  Never had heard it in my life ... but then I realized how weird "Gram" and "Gramp" sounded to her -- and yeah, it sounded downright 'rude' to her.

Reply? "You gotta BOWLLL IT ... that's how you get the sugar to melt!!" ("bowl" = "boil" in Northern-speak!)

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ORIGINAL: fuzzy_dogs_mom
I just put 5 or 6 tea bags (sometimes flavored, sometimes herbal, sometimes plain old Lipton) in a gallon jar full of water and set it out on the patio table for a few hours. 

 
I love to make Sun-tea....
I have a jug with the spout on the bottom and put it in the fridge outside and have at it...
Unsweetened with Lemon please...[]

If it's iced tea, I prefer it with absolutely no sugar and bit of lemon. I don't know why, it's probably the way my mom makes it, but if you add any sugar it tastes like licking a metal spoon. I like my warm tea sweet. 

not a huge tea fan unless it's sweet tea that is prepared like callie said...sugar has to be added when it's hot.
 
 

I like my warm tea sweet

mmmmm... I like warm tea with a bit of raw honey. [8D]