Yay discusses iced tea

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Date: 27 June 2007 12:48:04

So I am not feeling particularly inspired tonight. Perhaps it's because my feet are half-frozen. Surely no-one can expect creativity from someone with half-frozen feet.

I could talk about whether iced tea is an acquired taste or not. I would say probably. I don't buy it very frequently, but when I do it's the flavoured stuff, sometimes lemon flavoured green tea (I'm not sure how much green tea is actually in it...). However the one that was in my car was that flavour and it was WAY too sweet. I believe I had to dilute it to about 30% of the original strength before it was palatable (good thing I had lots of other water bottles in my car for decanting purposes!).

There are two "big" brands of iced tea - Nestle and Lipton. I think the crazily sweet one was Nestea green with lemon. I don't remember Lipton being too bad, but I tend to dilute most non-carbonated soft drinks significantly. Which is weird really because I do have quite a high sugar tolerance. I guess I prefer eating sugar to drinking it. Except when I have Fanta cravings that is. Oh and thickshakes.

There is another brand at uni that is imported from somewhere in Asia and it's (I think) green tea with honey. I don't like that one, however I imagine it's a taste I could acquire if I persisted. I'm not going to persist because I usually just drink water and have no need to take up green tea with honey. Especially when there's Fanta to be had.

Then there's "real" iced tea. I've never had that. Maybe it's good... but again, I usually prefer water.