How Do You Take Your Iced Tea?

How Do You Take Your Iced Tea?

July 31, 2008

by partysugar 60

popsugar poll

How Do You Take Your Iced Tea?

Sweetened

42%

Unsweetened

31%

Mixed with lemonade.

12%

In an exotic flavor.

4%

I don't like iced tea.

8%

Other — I'll explain how I make iced tea below.

3%

Drinks Tea Poll Beverages Summer Iced Tea

60 Comments

NAI

NAI 4 years 39 weeks

for all you ice-tea haters, WHY!? ice-team is extremely refreshing and delicious!

BRANDYNICOLE730 4 years 40 weeks

I like sweet tea, no lemon. There is no better way to ruin a great glass of iced tea than to throw a slice of lemon in, or on, the glass. The only pre-made sweet tea that I'll buy is Red Diamond, Lipton and all the other packaged/canned teas are so gross. I also like the sweet PEACH tea from Sonic!

Captious 4 years 41 weeks

@bunnychick In the northern US "iced tea" is unsweetened. In the Southern US "iced tea" is sweetened, and not like you're used to either it's sickly sweet. I remember the first time I had to make it at the restaurant I was working at and they told me for the silver drum thing I needed to add 4 CUPS of sugar. heheI'm addicted to iced tea and like it unsweetened.

Captious 4 years 41 weeks

@bunnychick In the northern US "iced tea" is unsweetened. In the Southern US "iced tea" is sweetened, and not like you're used to either it's sickly sweet. I remember the first time I had to make it at the restaurant I was working at and they told me for the silver drum thing I needed to add 4 CUPS of sugar. hehe I'm addicted to iced tea and like it unsweetened.

keiraz 4 years 41 weeks

I like the lemon flavor so I chose mixed with Lemonade :-D

jennjennnbubba 4 years 41 weeks

where I'm from there is no such as iced tea!! It's sweet tea or nothing at all :truestory:

sweetpeabrina 4 years 41 weeks

I was born and raised in the south. I loves me some sweet tea. ;)

sweetpeabrina 4 years 41 weeks

I was born and raised in the south. I loves me some sweet tea. ;)

tvjunkie45 4 years 41 weeks

Unsweetened and with lemon. But I'll pretty much drink the stuff any way, I love Iced Tea.

ajennilynrushhh 4 years 41 weeks

I like raspberry, peach, mango iced tea.

Hautie 4 years 41 weeks

I make fresh brew sweet tea daily. And as mention earlier... you do place the sugar in the pitcher first before you pour the hot tea in... then add cool water. It makes all the difference in the taste of the tea to get all the sugar to dissolve. It also taste better if given the chance to cool a bit before serving.

TADOW 4 years 41 weeks

I dont like ice tea, but since they've started mixing it with lemonade, I can tolerate it. I also like the fake kool aid stuff mixed with lemonade

Spectra 4 years 41 weeks

I like mine with like, two packets of NutraSweet and a dash of lemon juice. Oh, and LOTS of ice.

HonestMuffin 4 years 42 weeks

Arnold Palmer all the way!!!!

HonestMuffin 4 years 42 weeks

Arnold Palmer all the way!!!!

ilanac13 4 years 42 weeks

i usually just put splenda or something like that in my tea, however depending on where i am i might adjust. when i go to my fiance's family's house in Texas, they have sweet tea so i have that - and it's not like the super sweet tea that they have in the south - it's probably from a mix so you know what i mean. i also like the 1/2 tea 1/2 lemonade combo. i started having that a few years ago and it's a nice variation.

tigr3bianca 4 years 42 weeks

I love tea, I'll have it hot or cold, exotic flavored, or with different wedges of citrus but always with no sugar. Tea is a part of my family's tradition, being served at every meal. My favorite tea is blackberry green tea, so fruity it doesn't need sugar.

laPetiteJuJu 4 years 42 weeks

I love to drink hot tea but I really don't like iced tea at all- sweetened, unsweetened, flavoured, etc! Same with coffee, I'm a coffee fiend but I never drink iced coffee! I guess I just like my "hot drinks" hot!

suziryder 4 years 42 weeks

I was in Alabama this weekend and I was pretty surprised to discover that the mythic "sweet tea" that all my southern friends rave about is, in fact, just ordinary sweetened ice tea. Yummy, but still, it's just iced tea, people!

Deidre 4 years 42 weeks

Stong sweet tea for this Carolina girl! Put in a squeezed lemon slice and you're good to go. The best thing about going back home is getting my normally H20-only fiance hooked on the stuff.

Deidre 4 years 42 weeks

Stong sweet tea for this Carolina girl! Put in a squeezed lemon slice and you're good to go. The best thing about going back home is getting my normally H20-only fiance hooked on the stuff.

LaLa0428 4 years 42 weeks

I'm probably one of the few southerners who does not drink iced tea. I drink a lot of hot green teas.

uptown_girl 4 years 42 weeks

PS. I can't really do hot teas. Unless I am sick. Then I can do hot green tea with honey.

uptown_girl 4 years 42 weeks

I am a southerner, but my dad ALWAYS preferred unsweetened tea. So when my mom would make tea (sometimes she'd do sun tea, sometimes not) it was always 100% unsweetened. It was at my neighbors or grandmother's that I would get that killer sweet tea. Now, I prefer it unsweetened with lemons & sometimes mint! (Weird, I know). If I am visiting someone and they have the super-sweet tea, I sometimes have half a glass, because it is yummy, just too sweet for me to drink very much!

uptown_girl 4 years 42 weeks

I am a southerner, but my dad ALWAYS preferred unsweetened tea. So when my mom would make tea (sometimes she'd do sun tea, sometimes not) it was always 100% unsweetened. It was at my neighbors or grandmother's that I would get that killer sweet tea.Now, I prefer it unsweetened with lemons & sometimes mint! (Weird, I know). If I am visiting someone and they have the super-sweet tea, I sometimes have half a glass, because it is yummy, just too sweet for me to drink very much!