Sweet tea

But sugar dissolves in cold water. It just takes a bit longer. This is 9th grade chemistry. At 20°C 203.9g sugar are soluble per 100ml of water.

[Edit: Sorry, for the Americans here: At 68°F, 1 cup of sugar is soluble in 21/50 cups of water.]

Wikipedia (de): Zucker cites Hans-Albert Kurzhals: Lexikon Lebensmitteltechnik. Volume 2: L – Z. Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-973-7, p. 723.

Well that explains the diabeetus.

i hate when i go down south and go to restaurants and order iced tea and get a glass of concentrated sugar water

Lemmy is now getting reposts. We've reached critical mass!

Well, it's the gays or atheists. Or "colored" people. Or whoever they are told to hate at that moment. This happens more than you know in this day and age:

As a server, southerners stare at me in wide eyed awe when I pour a disgusting amount of simple syrup into a glass of iced tea.

This seems like a US thing I’m too European to understand

(aka. they bring us the ingredients, and we make our own tea at the restaurant table)

"four seasons-having piece of shit" lol I'm going to start discriminating against people based on their seasons.

"Everybody is welcome at my house!... as long as you've experienced snow, that is"

Sugar will dissolve in unsweet tea, it's just slower. If you can't dissolve it in cold tea, then it wouldn't stay in solution in hot tea that was cooled down.

For someone complaining about northerners not knowing 9th grade chemistry, it sure sounds like they weren't paying attention themselves.

Damn, I knew sugar was bad for you, but boy it looks like it can make you really irritable. Stop drinking so much sugar y'all. It's nasty.

Perhaps the real tea is the shitposts we made along the way.

That's OK. I don't eat 'em.

I mean it would be inconvenient but they would still dissolve, they aren't super saturating sweetened tea in the south.

the correct response to somebody trying to order sweet tea in the north is and always has been this quote from 30 rock:

“I'm gonna come back in 5 minutes, if you try to order off menu again I will slap those glasses off your face.”

And I hate when they have only sweet tea...

Maybe the amount of sugar that cold water easily accepts is the correct amount to not taste like shit

Sweet tea is trash anyway. Might as well just dump sugar into the water and drink it why even have the tea in it at all

It's mostly water?

I don't have to heat up lemonade to make the sugar dissolve in it; why would tea be different?

We got Union as hell on this post, didn't we. Every time I come back it has more comments.

I'm still mad as fuck that I can't get my precious Lipton Instant Tea at Walmart, because I really was raised in a trailer park, so maybe that's why I had to delete my own giant shitty comment about this.

Sweet tea is extremely common up north. Wtf you talking about?

I kinda like the sugar at the bottom, but I'm a degenerate like that. (I've mostly excised my sweet tooth now. My dad is in his 50s and almost died from diabetic shock, with no knowledge of his condition)

Also are we going to talk about the fact that I've never heard anyone outside of the south pronounce pecan as "pee-can?"

Lawl. There was a point somewhere in that rant. I went to university in the South and I do miss the food on occasion.

Now that's a person that has heard, "Bless your heart."

Sweet tea is fucking disgusting and anyone who drinks that shit ought to be ashamed of themselves.

It would dissolve you just have to be more patient!

As they say, pick your battles.

It's pronounced "diabitis"

Or with every meal, "would you like grits with that?" No! Grits are disgusting!! Stop it!

Based

Never really liked sweet tea, but Suntea is great.

I have never been in a place in the South where they don't serve gays

Use Splenda, fool!

most areas of the u.s. you gotta pick one, sweet or not sweet. since I rarely if ever add sugar to anything, sweet tea is to me an excuse to drink flavored sugar water. but cheaper than soda and it doesn't go flat.

so sweet iced tea is a perverse adulteration of a refreshing yet bitter, tasty beverage. i mean, add some lemon fer real. if i'm south of certain landmarks, i know i won't drink tea unless i make it myself.

North of what? South of what?