Iced tea = ?

[flonnebonne]

Question: in your country Where you live, if you order iced tea, does it have sugar in it? Or is it just black tea with some ice in it? (NOOO!!!)

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[mmmdraco.livejournal.com]

I'm in the US... and that depends on where you are. When I lived in New York, no sugar. When I moved to North Carolina, you had to order it "unsweet" to get it that way. (Although, as Hal Sparks said in one of his stand-up specials, Charmageddon, it's not unsweet. It is plain. You're not taking the sugar out.)

[flonnebonne]

That's right! It is plain. It is the way it should be. Thank you, Hal Sparks!

[qem_chibati]

If you order iced tea in Sydney, you are 95% of the time these days getting a lipton/nestlea iced tea.

[flonnebonne]

So has there been a change over your lifetime?

[qem_chibati]

Yes. (about 80% of those/those type of stores didn't stock it at all... About 15 years ago. :))

[fyredancer.livejournal.com]

Depends on what part of the country you're in ;D

Sometimes, it just depends on what restaurant!

[flonnebonne]

MAN that is confusing! Next time I go to the U.S. I'm just gonna say "Nestea" if I want me sugar.

[fyredancer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ask for "Nestea" or "sweet tea." :D

[issen4.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Well, you can always choose, right?

Ok, if you simply ask for iced tea (aka 'teh peng'), it's got milk - usually condensed milk - and sugar.
There's less sugar (teh peng siew dai), no sugar (teh peng kosong) versions.
And then there's the other sort with no milk, just sugar (teh-o peng), and you can also have less sugar and no sugar versions.

Looking at other comments, it looks like it's usually sweetened tea with no milk, how weird! I guess where I live, a similar version would be sweetened green tea with ice cubes.

[flonnebonne]

Waaah, that sounds yummy. Around here tea + sugar + milk is called "milk tea," although it's usually not made with condensed milk.

Iced tea around here isn't just tea + sugar. It's, uh, Lipton or Nestea brand stuff, which means it's got some lemony something or other in there. I'm sure it's all bad for you

Where do you live, by the way? I realize I don't know. :0

[issen4.livejournal.com]

The preference for canned/tinned condensed milk is a holdover from the olden days when fresh milk wasn't easily available. ^_^ Hm, come to think of it, nowadays you can also get the type of iced tea expected in US, except they add a slice of lemon and call it iced lemon tea. (Though you can just request for the lemon to be left off.) At most coffeeshops they brew the tea rather than use Nestea, so it's tastier.

I live in Singapore. Where I do all my drinking. ^__^

[flonnebonne]

That kind of iced tea is apparently only expected in PARTS of the US. Here in Canada I think it's pretty much the norm though. Maybe. I don't get out of Vancouver much.

Man, we need some Kopi tiam around here! It's all expensive bubble tea joints...although I can buy kaya spread at the corner store for some reason.