• @[email protected]
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    1511 months ago

    That’s kind of disgusting. So southern style sweet tea is basically just tea flavored simple syrup?

    • Corhen
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      1211 months ago

      Yea, when my family did a trip down south, i asked for some sweet tea, thinking it was like Brisk, but i couldnt believe how sweet it was.

      if your drink is sweeter than pop, its… scary.

      • @[email protected]
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        1711 months ago

        According to Wikipedia:

        it is not unusual to find sweet tea with a sugar level as high as 22 degrees Brix, or 22 g per 100 g of liquid, a level twice that of Coca-Cola."

        Coca-Cola already has a disgusting amount of sugar. The mere idea of this makes me queasy.

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          511 months ago

          Yeah, I don’t like my sweet tea like that, but I’ve been to people’s houses that it’s just diabetes in a glass.

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          211 months ago

          That’s stupid sweet but not supersaturated though. Saturated would be ~200g per 100g of water.

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      211 months ago

      Depends on who makes it… McDonald’s, 7-11, and the like use about twice the amount of sugar that’s really necessary and it does not make it better.