# Unsweetened Iced tea sucks. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839 "2000-06-09T04:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Feely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mr.Feely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Feely)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839/41 "2000-06-21T08:05:01Z")
**Biotop** : try looking for Tejava in the bottled drink section. It’s quite good, and is unsweetened. You’ll probably need to hurry, though, before they bow to market pressure and dump a whole bunch of sugar in it. I go for unsweetened iced tea. I can drink either, but I just can’t bring myself to dump 10 packets of sugar in a glass to reach the same level of sweetness as bottled iced tea. I drink my hot tea black (brown?) with no sugar as well, so maybe that has something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839/42 "2000-06-21T14:09:54Z")
Egads . . . if I want something sweet or with a bunch of sugar in it, I’ll drink some damned soda or Kool-Aid or something. Iced tea remains _unsweetened_, thank you very much, with maybe a lemon wedge in it; hot tea also does not get sugar, although it may sometimes get a couple of mint leaves while it steeps. Frigging barbarians. ---
**Author:** ![Fiona\_Firehair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fiona\_Firehair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiona_Firehair)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839/43 "2000-06-21T22:22:08Z")
Tea should be drunk in its proper context. Midafternoon (winter): Hot with cream and sugar Midafternoon (summer): Cold and unsweetened with mint/lemon At a Chinese Restaurant: Hot and unsweetened Mornings: Black Coffee After dinner: Coffee with cream and sugar. Midnight-3AM: Coffee with rum or whiskey and cream. Why drink it only one way? ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839/44 "2000-06-22T02:04:17Z")
We are talking **Iced tes** here… ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839/45 "2000-06-22T20:51:17Z")
What are you people talking about? You don’t drink tea (or coffee) for the flavor. You drink them because the human body can’t survive more than 7 or 8 hours without caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839/46 "2000-06-22T21:13:57Z")
I have spent most of my life in North Carolina so I love Iced tea. I enjoy it sweet or unsweeted. However, all fake tea should be banned!! When I say fake tea I am talking about any tea purchased in a bottle or made from a mix. I won’t go to any restaurant that serves it. It isn’t that hard to make tea!! (sorry, fake tea is a pet peeve of mine) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839/47 "2000-06-22T21:43:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Actually, _all_ iced tea sucks. Same with hot tea, while we’re at it. Bleagh. > \*\* I’ll have to agree with David here. Tea is gross. Along with flavored/“sparkling” water. Ick. I’m a Mountain Dew kind of girl. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsweetened-iced-tea-sucks/21839.md?page=2)