Sweet tea or unsweetened tea

• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 8/9/2007 11:09:59 AM actually it was baking powder not baking soda, but my grandmother always called it "sow-dee" because it is made of sodium bicarbonate. i thought that was common knowledge?[8|] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Boo1129 Posted : 8/9/2007 11:10:32 AM How could u possibly ignore Billy?? LOL Anyway for me...I think tea is gross....The only kind I will even drink is the already processed kind or the mix from a can ! LOL 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• chelsea_b Posted : 8/9/2007 11:17:55 AM I've had a little tea obsession going the past few days. In three days, I've probably finished 4 or 5 pitchers by myself. And I sweeten it with sugar! [] I can't stand any artificial sweeteners (not only do I think they taste horrible, I can't stop thinking about what ill effects they might be having on me..I feel like I'm drinking antifreeze or something), so I use "Sugar in the Raw". I love that stuff. Gives everything the slightest molasses taste. I've been using like 2/3 cup per gallon of tea. A lot, yeah, but not so much that the idea of 2 cups doesn't make me gag. []    I "bawl" the sugar and water together too. Just tastes better that way. []   I did buy some Stevia last night though. I'm gonna see how that tastes in tea because I can't afford to buy bigger clothes at the moment. [8D] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cakana Posted : 8/9/2007 11:34:54 AM My favorite tea is the bottled Tejava.  It's strong but not bitter [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jjsmom06 Posted : 8/9/2007 11:53:32 AM actually it was baking powder not baking soda, but my grandmother always called it "sow-dee" because it is made of sodium bicarbonate. i thought that was common knowledge? smart a$$! [] Interesting fact though Brad... see what you learn on a dog forum![] Becky [:'(]  I can't believe that you like processed and canned tea!  Man.. I am soooo dissapointed in you![&o] oh... and fwiw, I am quite cabable of ignoring Billy should I feel the need and have already done so this morning, but he hates that and usually turns into a 5 year old and states the same comment again, assuming I just didn't "get it".[]   But ignoring him is often more fun in the end.[] Cathy.. I also like Tejava .. do you get yours for cheap at Trader Joes? Chelsea.. stevia isn't half bad and as far as artificial sweetners, you don't like splenda either? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cakana Posted : 8/9/2007 11:58:24 AM Cathy.. I also like Tejava .. do you get yours for cheap at Trader Joes? Yep but when I get desperate, I buy it at Safeway.  It's more expensive there though. Raleys/Bel Air is the only store I've found that sells the 4 pack of little bottles.  If I drank as much as you Shelly, I'd have to get a 2nd job just to pay for it [].  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jjsmom06 Posted : 8/9/2007 12:03:20 PM ORIGINAL: cakana Cathy.. I also like Tejava .. do you get yours for cheap at Trader Joes? Yep but I when I get desperate, I buy it at Safeway.  It's more expensive there though. Raleys/Bel Air is the only store I've found that sells the 4 pack of little bottles.  If I drank as much as you Shelly, I'd have to get a 2nd job just to pay for it [].    LMAO...  It IS pricey Cathy.. that is why I don#%92t buy it (also because of the high caffeine and the amount of it I would drink).   On weekends when DH and I are both home all day, quite often we make 2 pitchers a day and like Billy and his wife, if we are doing manual labor of some sort (we don#%92t farm though[8|]…) then we might make 3 pitchers in a day.   THAT is way too expensive to not just use tea bags![] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Maxs Mom Posted : 8/9/2007 12:19:58 PM I like my tea unsweetened with just some lemon, but I have to admit I do not mind true southern sweet tea. It seems different than just tea with sugar. But it is only on occassion I have that. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Bullymom Posted : 8/9/2007 12:23:58 PM Wow!  I didn't realize just how many people didn't drink sweet tea!!  I guess I'm the lone ranger!  I love my sweet tea and lots of southern foods too! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Xerxes Posted : 8/9/2007 12:30:36 PM It entirely depends upon the tea.  However if it's just common variety Lipton or such, sweet with a mint leaf or two.  (and I go by the ol' southern rule that there's no way that tea is too sweet!)   Any of the fancy teas-especially jasmine, white tea, oolong, sapsong or any of the asian teas -no sugar at all.   Any of my medicinal teas/herbs no sugar.     0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 8/9/2007 12:42:02 PM and I go by the ol' southern rule that there's no way that tea is too sweet! finally.... the voice of reason! [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• chelsea_b Posted : 8/9/2007 12:45:43 PM Chelsea.. stevia isn't half bad and as far as artificial sweetners, you don't like splenda either? Nah, I hate Splenda. It doesn't taste much different from the others to me. Plus I just can't imagine that super-chlorinated sugar is perfectly safe and fine. Though I also can't stand drinking chlorinated water, so...   Oh yeah, and I tried the Stevia. Pretty good in coffee, though I miss my molasses-y flavor, and apparently one packet of the stuff is way too much for a huge cup of coffee. [8|] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• houndlove Posted : 8/9/2007 12:51:52 PM I'm a complete insufferable Picky McNitpickerson on this issue. I love iced tea in the summer. Sweetened, WITH SUGAR!!!, and with half-and-half. Yes, I put cream in my iced tea. And if I can't get fresh-brewed, real sugar sweetened iced tea that I can then put cream in....no thank you I will pass. I also can not stand the taste of artificial sweeteners. I will tolerate them if they are in my preferred caffeine delivery system (um, *tiny voice* diet mountain dew), but otherwise, blech. I can totally taste the difference and they taste all metally to me and have a weird after-taste. All of the, Splenda included. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 8/9/2007 12:59:07 PM It makes sense to me that if you drink soda and are concerned about weight/calories that you would switch to diet soda, despite old and/or new theories.  All diet soda isn't carbonated, BTW.  Tropicana orange and Minute Maid lemonade both make a delicious non-carbonated light soda with about 5 or 10 calories a can  -  and  those would be from the use of a tiny bit of real fruit juice.   Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• probe1957 Posted : 8/9/2007 1:25:27 PM ORIGINAL: Bullymom Wow!  I didn't realize just how many people didn't drink sweet tea!!  I guess I'm the lone ranger!  I love my sweet tea and lots of southern foods too!   As long as you don't have a weight problem or dental problems, I see no reason for you not to continue to enjoy your sweet tea. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login