Today is brought to you by Luzianne Tea.
I grew up with sweet tea in the deep south, where it is considered abomination to make unsweetened tea and then sweeten it with artificial sweeteners or worse yet, raw sugar. We all know that the chemistry of sugar is that it melts when warm, not cold. So putting sugar in ICED TEA won't make it sweet... you just end up with tea with grainy sugar in it. Imagine our horror when we moved to Northern Virginia, and find out that NO WHERE (okay, maybe one place) serves sweetened tea. Y'all, what is the point of tea if there's no sugar in it, hmmmm? Okay. Also, in our home growing up, the type of tea used to make iced tea was Luzianne. No other tea could match up. Yes, you novice tea drinkers might not be able to tell the difference, but us weathered tea drinkers, there is tremendous difference. So much so, that recently, I found myself in a panic when I realized that the stupid grocery stores up here don't carry Luzianne. Yes... yes... I had to make a special trip to that heavenly store, Harris Teeter, just to purchase tea bags. Crazy? Sure... Worth it? Most definitely. The sad thing is, when I'm watching what I eat (which essentially is when I'm not pregnant), sweet tea is one of the first things to go out the window. There are simply too many calories in that one beverage. But for now? I'll enjoy my sweet tea until the baby is born... and of course, I will always have my Luzianne handy, just in case company stops by, and would like a tall, cool glass of homemade Luzianne sweet tea. :)
7 comments:
Since I'm not from the South, I know NOTHING about tea. (Don't judge me, okay!)
I don't think I've seen Luzianne out here. Hum...
And I've never thought about how suger won't dissolve in cold tea. Duh!!
I totally agree! There is not much in the world I love more than a fresh glass of iced SWEET tea! We are pretty much addicted to it. I'm almost embarassed to tell you how many times a week we make it. I do drink a lot of water though, so I don't worry about it too much.
I have to admit that I have never had Luzianne. We drink Lipton. Maybe I'll give it a try when we run out of Lipton.
There is truly an art to making good sweet tea!
oh yeah, I love the monday marketplace idea!
Don't forget the fresh lemon (NOT that reconstituted lemon juice yuck).....Is this a Southern thing, too? My Yankee hubby does NOT like lemon in his iced tea, but I think it's an abomination without it!
I love the Monday Marketplace idea!!
Up here when you ask for sweet tea, they say "we have raspberry tea!"...no.
Ok, it's Wednesday, where are you? Is everything ok?
#1 - I LOVE sweet tea! I can only drink homemade tea, because the store stuff is gross - not nearly enough sugar. MY recipe calls for 2 and 1/2 cups of sugar! I bet you'd love it!
#2 - WHERE ARE YOU? Did you have the baby??!!
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