Given that unsweetened tea is an abomination, I fully support this law; those who oppose it should be forced to drink unsweetened tea for the rest of there days.
Personally, I’m not picky enough about my tea to care if there’s sugar in it or not.
But I can now add one more US state to the list of States with Stupid Governments. It’s getting to be a pretty long goddam list.
In Tokyo, you often have to specify when you order coffee or tea whether you want it hot or cold, because most places serve both. Consequently, most places put sugar-syrup out as well as normal sugar. Only out of vending machines do you get pre-sweetened cold tea.
Perhaps that would settle the issue of sweet vs. unsweetened tea for the Georgia legislature, and they could get on to some every-so-slightly more important issues.
You promise? I’m about ready to go into some sort of funky sugar coma just reading about sweet tea. 
Please! I don’t see what all the fuss is about. No, it’s not all that funny. Yes, technically it’s a waste of time.
But let’s say these guys spend, what, an hour, writing this goofy law. Okay, give them two because they can’t stop giggling with each other. So two hours of a state legislator’s time. That’s an incredible waste of money? And this is the Georgia legislature, remember – it’s not like a ton of stuff would’ve gotten done in that time anyway. (And yes, I’m a native of GA so I’m allowed to make fun of My Own.)
When even the representative of the ACLU, which may be the most bug-up-its-ass organization in existence, gives the issue a “hearty laugh”, that should be the signal to relax.
If we can’t allow our lawmakers to have a little bit of fun (however lame and insipid), then The Terrorists Will Have Already Won.
Do Not Feed The Troll*
*okay, legislator
You’d be hard pressed to find a restaurant in Wichita that serves sweetened tea. When I was new here, I asked for sweetened iced tea and the waitress looked at me like I was from another planet. “We only have unsweetened”, she says. Okay.
I guess “incredible” is relative. YMMV
What we really need in Jawja is some kind of law outlawing instant-fucking-grits. Is there, at long last, NO DECENCY?
I mentioned this in another thread about this very subject, but it bears repeating. The Illinois state legislature just unanimously passed a bill that made popcorn the official state snack. This wasn’t as a joke, but was a project thought of by second-graders to find out how government works. It would be a better example of how government doesn’t work.
On a positive note, the Arkansas state legislature just unanimously passed a bill that made it harder for children who were sexually abused by a parent to be made vulnerable to their abuser via grandparents’ visiation rights. Good job, y’all.
I must share a story.
My wife is born and raised in Georgia - a true Georgia peach. Until recently, she had never lived outside of Georgia, and rarely traveled far from it. Vacations were on the Redneck Riviera.
The company I was working for a while back sent me to Presidents Club (although I’m not in sales, that’s another story).
They sent us to a ritzy resort in Palm Springs, CA. The first night we were there, we ordered room service, and my wife ordered tea.
Now, her first mistake was to not understand that, outside the South, “tea” means a pot of boiling water, a tea bag, and a tea cup (with lemon and cream on the side).
She deals with that. So the second night, she orders “iced tea”. The waitstaff brings here the same setup as the previous night, but with a cup of ice.
The third, determined to believe this ritzy place can get it right, she orders “sweet iced tea”. I can hear her ordering it, explaining again, “I mean sweetened, with sugar”. So, the waitstaff brings the same setup, with the cup of ice, and a bowl of sugar.
She has now traveled a bit more of the country with me, and she understands that sweetened iced tea is not as universal as Coke.