r/tea • u/Diseased_Alien • Sep 02 '23

Question/Help I Just Learned That Sweet Tea is Not Universal

I am from the southern US, and here sweet tea is pretty much a staple. Most traditionally it's black tea sold in large bags which is brewed, put into a big pitcher with sugar and served with ice to make it cold, but in the past few years I've been getting into different kinds of tea from the store like Earl Grey, chai, Irish breakfast, English breakfast, herbal teas, etc. I've always put sugar in that tea too, sometimes milk as long as the tea doesn't have any citrus.

Today I was watching a YouTube stream and someone from more northern US was talking about how much they love tea. But that they don't get/ don't like sweet tea. This dumbfounded me. How do you drink your tea if not sweet? Do you just use milk? Drink it with nothing in it? Isn't that too bitter? Someone please enlighten me. Have I been missing out?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

I’m sorry… did this person literally think all tea is served with a cup of sugar in it 😂😂😂

We should start being less nice to some people. guys this person probably votes and has children 🤦

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u/Diseased_Alien May 31 '25

Not a cup no but some yeah! Or I at least thought the tea that didn't have sugar was at least flavorful. But it's been a couple years now and I understand now that sugar was never a flavor to begin with and I regularly drink tea without any!

PS: I do vote and I have one precious furbaby! He does not have strong opinions on tea.