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I say this as someone who has lived my entire live in the Northeastern United States, and with apologies to my Southern neighbors...iced tea should never be sweet. Sweet drinks in general are not my jam, but ESPECIALLY not drinks that are naturally bitter like tea or coffee.
(I do like to blend black tea with mint when I'm going to have it iced, because mint is cooling and pleasant and NOT SWEET.)
Stevia tastes medicinal/antisceptic to me. Give me my aspertame, I've never noticed any bad effects and I've drunk as much of it over the last 3 decades as the lab rats!
Arizona canned ice tea is pretty good, however. Not as good as sun tea, but I'm way too lazy to ever make that.
I'm all about the sun tea, never sweetened.
Fake sugars are not an issue with me as I have always avoided sugar due to a family filled with diabetes. I don't notice the taste.
How do you feel about lemonade, Jess?
I am completely agnostic on whether tea should be hot or iced (or lukewarm having sat in the pot or cup for hours), sweet or unsweet, cream added or not. I may have a preference in the moment but I don't in general. Not really a fan of canned, though, or bottled for that matter. There used to be a Snapple unsweetened peach tea I really liked but I haven't seen it in, oh, decades, only "zero sugar" with splenda or something but mostly they just don't taste good to me and they seem astoundingly expensive compared to a teabag (and even when I am not in a position to turn a teabag into tea I can't help but make the comparison)
Don't like Stevia. I've only tried it a couple of times but it's got an undertone or aftertaste or something that's icky
How do you feel about lemonade, Jess?
Most lemonade is too sweet for me, but I drink a ton of lemon Spindrift. (Which is just seltzer + lemon juice, but I regularly spend $4/can on it anyway. Less so now that I'm in an office with seltzer on tap.)
Seltzer on tap? I have a seltzer fizzer but ON TAP? That's the dream.
Cass, I was just going to say that!
My family would always drink very strong iced tea with orange juice (instead of sugar or lemon). I loved it as a kid but haven’t had it probably since my grandmother died 20 years ago (how is time??!!). I’ve never heard of others who drank iced tea that way.
Seltzer on tap? I have a seltzer fizzer but ON TAP? That's the dream.
It is literally the only good thing I can name about this terrible cursed building, but it is VERY nice.
I think I like tea in all its forms. Hot, cold, sweet, unsweet, fruit flavored, herbal, black, green, etc. Knowing that, you'd think I'd drink it more often.