Sweet Tea

[TexasPrincessAurora]

Snapple iced tea isn't much better than the Nestea sweetened tea that comes out of the drink dispensers. There just isn't anything like fresh brewed sweet tea...there's nothing to compare it to.

[mpoppinsgirl]

Snapple is ok...nothing is like home made sweet tea though. It is impossible to get that flavor in a bottle. I am really excited to know that sweet tea will be available...YAY!! It makes my trip sound even better.

[Goofy Dad 13]

Add Cosmic Rays to the list of places you can get sweet tea. When we went in August, we could not get it at Liberty Tree for dinner.

[tinkerbell04]

When we went in August, we could not get it at Liberty Tree for dinner

When we dined at LTT for dinner in June, we ordered iced tea and regular unsweeteed tea was served. I don't know if it was available in June, but we weren't given a choice of sweet or unsweet, so I would think that it wasn't.

[TexasPrincessAurora]

I don't know if they've had it in the past, but the last few trips we've eaten dinner at LTT and they only had unsweetened tea.

[Stan]

OK guys you've hit on a lifelong pet peeve of mine. I absolutely agree that 1) sweet tea is the absolute best beverage- when it's right nothing else comes close- hot weather or cold, thirsty or not, and 2) the alternatives like raspberry tea, Snapple, or canned Nestea are _____ but sometimes that's all you can do... or just order a cola.

I finally got to where I wasn't surprised or offended at casual or family style restaurants that didn't serve sweet tea (esp all those years in OH and PA), but whenever I go to any kind of barbeque or southern home cooking type place that doesn't, I've always said, "then you aren't really BBQ", or "any BBQ place in TX that didn't have sweet tea would close its doors the first day". I have observed that I'm encountering this less and less these days- maybe McDonalds finally "broke the ice" on this issue for us?

However, the most _____ and ______ statement from a server is "our tea is unsweetened, but there's sugar on the table", like ___... I didn't see it there, how silly of me to ask for the tea to already be sweet... Almost as bad is to offer raspberry or peach or onion flavor as a substitute.

Gee whiz, I seem to have written an overly strong post, and now I feel the need to go back and soften it a bit before saying "submit". Those of you as passionate as I am about your sweet tea will have to use your imaginations about how it read the first time...

[mpoppinsgirl]

I think that we have decided to take a gallon or two of sweet tea with us and just keep it in our room. That way we know for sure that we will have some sweet tea. I was very surprised last year when I went and there was no sweet tea. Its the happiest place on earth.....without sweet tea?????Its cool though....It was still a great trip and it will be even better this time!!

[DizNee143]

ok im still really confused on what sweet tea is!
is it even tea? or just water with tons of sugar in it?
i wouldnt mind trying it one day..but i dont exactly know what i would be drinking..
if its just water with sugar...thats weird..i rather have a soda!

[TexasPrincessAurora]

Sweet tea is brewed black tea that is sweetened with sugar while still hot and then served over ice. Hope this helps!

[floridamom]

See. This just proves what I've said all along - Florida is not a real Southern state. No true Southern state would be lacking in sweet tea. I think the South ends at the GA/AL/FL boarder and FL in some sort of weird breakdown of the time/space continuum where it loops back above the Mason-Dixen line. Either that, or all the carpetbaggers that got kicked out of the other Southern states ended up in Florida.

We live in the Tampa area and most of the TS restaurants here do indeed serve sweet tea.

For those who are considering bringing/purchasing sweet tea to store in their room refrigerators: Publix is our local supermarket chain, and they sell fresh brewed gallon and half-gallon jugs of sweet tea in their deli section. It's VERY sweet.

[DizNee143]

Sweet tea is brewed black tea that is sweetened with sugar while still hot and then served over ice. Hope this helps!

thank you!! makes sense now..
ill have to try it one day!!

[TexasPrincessAurora]

Just FYI, if you order groceries from GardenGrocer they do their shopping at Publix (or did with our order in June). You can get the gallon jugs of sweet tea through them...it was really good, but really, really sweet.

[AvonleaCF]

I don't think I'd like sweet tea much. I prefer my iced tea unsweetened (I don't like to consume too much sugar in general though).

[Stan]

Since the amount of sugar in good sweet tea seems to be an issue here, I'd like to point out that soft drinks like Coke have something like 10 or 12 tsp of sugar per can, and it seems to me that a cup or 2 of sugar per gallon (my ratio for homemade tea) is at least no worse. Not that soft drinks are good for you...

If I've got my proportions wrong, please offer a correction. I was too lazy to convert cups/gallon to tsp/cup to nail down the comparison ... and I'm an engineer.

[magicofdisney]

I'm a southern gal and grew up on sweet tea. Is there such a thing as too sweet? My grandma is telling me, "NO Way!" As delicious as it is, I have to agree it's no worse than sodas (maybe less so since it doesn't require preservatives for freshness-heck, who can keep it around long enough for it to go bad?) I second the notion the Publix has AWESOME sweet tea. It's very refreshing to have back at the room after a long, hot day in the parks.

[ibelieveindisneymagic]

As a Canadian girl, I never understood what "sweet tea" was, just that DD, who is a huge ice tea (nestea up here) fan didn't like it!

It actually sounds like it would be quite tasty, DD aside, I will have to try some on my next trip.

[illini]

Since the amount of sugar in good sweet tea seems to be an issue here, I'd like to point out that soft drinks like Coke have something like 10 or 12 tsp of sugar per can, and it seems to me that a cup or 2 of sugar per gallon (my ratio for homemade tea) is at least no worse. Not that soft drinks are good for you...

If I've got my proportions wrong, please offer a correction. I was too lazy to convert cups/gallon to tsp/cup to nail down the comparison ... and I'm an engineer.

48 teaspoons in a cup, so less than soda if you're using 1 cup per gallon of tea. BUT soda is usually made with high fructose corn syrup which is even worse for you than regular old sugar.

Either way, I'm not a native Texan and only like some lemon in my iced tea. Everyone around me gulps down sweet tea by the gallon, though.

[ncscgirl2005]

Sorry if I offended any true sweet tea fanatics. Comparing real sweet tea to Snapple is probably similar to comparing New York pizza to Domino's.

You got that right. There is NO comparison. We tried to get some at the Plaza restauarant in MK but to no avail. I don't drink it all the time but there are certain meals that I HAVE to my sweet tea with. McDonalds has great sweet tea.

[Tigerlilly]

Publix sweet tea is OMG sweet. Like whoa sweet.

On any given day you will see 2 pitchers of tea in my fridge. I make my own, decaf sweetened with splenda. I make 2 gallons at a time and put 3/4ths of a cup of splenda in it. That is plenty sweet for me and I like a lot of lemon with my tea.
My husband thinks I do not put anywhere near enough sugar in mine so he buys the publix which is just grossly sweet to me.

But the best tea in the whole world is made by my Grandmother who lives around the block from me. If I have had a bad day or just really want a good glass of tea, Thats the table you will see me at!


Adding sugar to already iced tea is not Sweet Iced tea. Its tea with sugar in it. It just doesnt work, all the sugar settles at the bottom. You HAVE to add it while its hot!

[pixiesmimi]

See. This just proves what I've said all along - Florida is not a real Southern state. No true Southern state would be lacking in sweet tea. I think the South ends at the GA/AL/FL boarder and FL in some sort of weird breakdown of the time/space continuum where it loops back above the Mason-Dixen line. Either that, or all the carpetbaggers that got kicked out of the other Southern states ended up in Florida.

AMEN! We used to not have to ask anywhere in the south but with all of our travels, we have about decided that our native state of Arkansas is the only place where we don't have to ask any more. My DH always asks at the WDW restaurants and they just look at us funny. So we order something else because we definately don't drink unsweetened.

Thank you all so much. We are going to be eating at both the garden grill and liberty tree tavern. YAY!!! When we were there last year we went to the Concourse steakhouse and the waiter there told me that they did not serve sweet tea anywhere on disney property.. It seems like that was all I wanted after that. I thought we could at least check out that McDonalds this year since its only $1 for a huge glass....yummm. As soon as we left last year we went straight to the cracker barrel (they serve sweet tea no matter where they are located in the US) Anyway, thanks...I am a true Southern girl and I have to have my sweet tea...If I had to go nine days without it...I think I would die!!

Not quiet true. We have been at several Cracker Barrels that didn't have sweet tea. I know, I know... but when they were first putting them in up north, we went to one in Wisconsin and got the same response as we do at WDW. My DH said "You are a Cracker Barrel, aren't you?" The server just stared at us. How can you represent yourself as a southern/country restaurant if you don't know what sweet tea is?

Anyway, we didn't find sweet tea anywhere in the parks.