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Really? I thought iced tea was unsweetened when I visited Canada, but I could be misremembering.

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If you order an iced tea in Canada you are getting Nestea/Brisk like 95% of the time. Both are sweet teas, but are marketed and labelled as “Iced Tea”, not “Sweet Tea” - ask our American beverage overlords Coke/Pepsi why

If you are in a cafe, or some other place where the expectation is that they brew their own, then yes, it’s generally unsweetened - but it’s also usually explicitly labelled as such on the menu so you know whether you are getting brewed tea vs a glass of corn syrup

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Because those aren’t sweet teas… At least not as sweet as actual sweet tea in the south.

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I’m thought @Honytawk@lemmy.zip was being sarcastic, but lo and behold, people actually consider 33g of sugar per serving “unsweetened”

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Yeah it’s more of a semi sweet tea. Sweet tea is a syrup. Like, literally most home recipes I’ve heard call to add sugar until it stops absorbing while hot

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Brisk makes me so sad. I’ll just do a soda instead at that point. I’ll do unsweetened iced tea or sweet tea, but not that trash.

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Tastes like it was designed by someone who had never had tea in their lives.

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Unsweetened for americans maybe

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Ok? Like…it means no sugar. Just tea and ice. It’s my default drink. Pure leaf and gold peak make it. 0 calories. Don’t know what to tell you?

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Alright that’s funny.
Doubly so if you have ever had southern sweet tea where you could probably put a stick in it and get rock candy back out.

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I’ve definitely ordered one when I was down south, poured 2/3rds out, and topped it up with water, and it was still comparable to nestea

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