I used to like sweet tea, but now that I don't drink soda anymore, it's just too sweet for me.
Iced Tea - The Pinnacle of Refreshment
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I used to like sweet tea, but now that I don't drink soda anymore, it's just too sweet for me.
Any of you get down with yerba mate? I’ve been drinking it off and on ever since an Argentine coworker told me about it. I like to gringo it up with some dried orange peel or mint. It’s really good for energy and appetite suppression. It has caffeine and other similar alkaloids, but I find I don’t crash from it like I do coffee.
Second, if you’re in the south and don’t want a 1:1 tea:sugar mix, make sure to order “unsweet tea.” You could order “unsweetened,” if you want to show off your fancy yankee education.
Finally, sun tea can give you botulism.
Second, if you’re in the south and don’t want a 1:1 tea:sugar mix, make sure to order “unsweet tea.” You could order “unsweetened,” if you want to show off your fancy yankee education.
Finally, sun tea can give you botulism.
What how.
Josh
All Mods Are Beautiful
If you leave outside for 5 days and allow mold to grow and then not refrigerate it for another 10, sure, I can see that happening. but monkeys may also fly out of my ass at some point, so anything is possible.
I grew up on sun tea, as did both my parents, and my grandparents. It's probably a repeating cycle prior to them.
I have never once heard about botulism and sun tea.
It’s probably orders of magnitude more likely than butt monkeys, but okay.
Here’s a great question: why risk it? It’s not better. Don’t let nostalgia give you diarrhea or paralysis.
Josh
All Mods Are Beautiful
For the same reason I still eat taco bell and buffalo wild wings. It's good and hasnt killed me yet.
I guess. What if there were two Taco Bells near your house, and the food was identical at both? Your parents used to take you to one, but they’re known to only heat their food to 125* before leaving it in direct sunlight for hours, exposing you to an elevated risk for food borne pathogens. The other one brews their tacos at 195* for at least 3 minutes, effectively eliminating the risk of the patented Taco Bell colon volcano.
That’s a better metaphor.
TL;DR, sun tea is dumb now that we all have air conditioning. Turn on your stove or cold brew in your fridge.
Yerba mate, tho? Nobody?
*does 5 minutes of research*
No one has gotten sick from this. It's just a CDC guideline. Stick to caffeinated tea and less than 4 hours in the sun then shove it in the fridge.
The CDC recommends against this, but they also recommend against eating raw cookie dough because of eggs and not raw flour when it's usually the raw flour that gets people sick.
Back to our regularly scheduled tea topic.
I drink all kinds of tea. I have a vanilla yerba mate. Enjoy much.
No one has gotten sick from this. It's just a CDC guideline. Stick to caffeinated tea and less than 4 hours in the sun then shove it in the fridge.
The CDC recommends against this, but they also recommend against eating raw cookie dough because of eggs and not raw flour when it's usually the raw flour that gets people sick.
Back to our regularly scheduled tea topic.
I drink all kinds of tea. I have a vanilla yerba mate. Enjoy much.
Making a batch today with a backyard blend of fresh picked spearmint, chocolate mint and creeping charlie. I also have catnip I could have tossed in, but I figured I will try this batch and see how it goes.I grow mint in the back yard to make this.
Meadow Tea - PA Dutch Iced Mint Tea
Meadow Tea is a simple, refreshing drink made with fresh mint - a Lancaster County staple. Great way to use up the abundance of mint that grows in herb gardens.www.craftycookingmama.com
I’m sure it has other names but being around mennonites I’ve always heard it called meadow tea.
So my gf is not drinking right now, and I am cutting back significantly. But she was at Whole Foods the other day, saw this available by the can, so she bought it to try in hopes it would maybe scratch that hop itch:
I was skeptical, but... it was good as hell. It was unsweetened black tea, with a nice hoppy flavor to it. It probably helps that it was fresh. But I liked it a lot and would definitely drink it again, and would try other varieties.
I was skeptical, but... it was good as hell. It was unsweetened black tea, with a nice hoppy flavor to it. It probably helps that it was fresh. But I liked it a lot and would definitely drink it again, and would try other varieties.