i hate when i go down south and go to restaurants and order iced tea and get a glass of concentrated sugar water
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diabetus by L Ron Hubbard
But sugar dissolves in cold water. It just takes a bit longer. This is 9th grade chemistry. At 20°C 203.9g sugar are soluble per 100ml of water.
[Edit: Sorry, for the Americans here: At 68°F, 1 cup of sugar is soluble in 21/50 cups of water.]
Wikipedia (de): Zucker cites Hans-Albert Kurzhals: Lexikon Lebensmitteltechnik. Volume 2: L – Z. Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-973-7, p. 723.
And most of all, solubility being a function of the temperature, if you lower it the excess sugar will leave the solution and cristallize.
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Have you seen how much sugar those hicks put into their tea though? It's gotta be hot because they put coca cola grade amounts of sugar, to the point where it wont dissolve in the water anymore. Sweet tea contains 36-38 grams of sugar per 16 oz. That's a fucking soft drink.
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As a server, southerners stare at me in wide eyed awe when I pour a disgusting amount of simple syrup into a glass of iced tea.
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Well that explains the diabeetus.
That is really just a map of poverty.
I'm going to look at how poverty is defined. You just gave me an idea for my grad school program.
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"four seasons-having piece of shit" lol I'm going to start discriminating against people based on their seasons.
"Everybody is welcome at my house!... as long as you've experienced snow, that is"
As a person who has never seen snow, I'm feeling very discriminated lmao
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When I moved to L.A. from Indiana, I met people who had never seen snow up close. It was so weird to me.
I moved from Pennsylvania to Louisiana when I was a teenager, and was most bummed about losing out on snow boarding. Now when I'm out traveling, I get to explain how fun (and practical) "hurricane parties" are. Everywhere is strange when you're a stranger I guess
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Sugar will dissolve in unsweet tea, it's just slower. If you can't dissolve it in cold tea, then it wouldn't stay in solution in hot tea that was cooled down.
For someone complaining about northerners not knowing 9th grade chemistry, it sure sounds like they weren't paying attention themselves.
Chemistry knowledge! Sweet tea is actually a supersaturated solution. That means there more sugar in the water than could normally be held in suspension. This is achieved by heating the water so you can dissolve more solute in and then chilling it. Remember theres at least 2 diabetes worth of sugar per glass.
That's kind of disgusting. So southern style sweet tea is basically just tea flavored simple syrup?
Yea, when my family did a trip down south, i asked for some sweet tea, thinking it was like Brisk, but i couldnt believe how sweet it was.
if your drink is sweeter than pop, its.. scary.
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Masshole that lives in the south I have no idea how everyone I know isn't on insulin. Sweet tea is an abomination of sugar.
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You're technically correct, but completely missing the point that folks want to be able to actually drink it a reasonably short time after it's been served.
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Damn, I knew sugar was bad for you, but boy it looks like it can make you really irritable. Stop drinking so much sugar y'all. It's nasty.
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Well, it's the gays or atheists. Or "colored" people. Or whoever they are told to hate at that moment. This happens more than you know in this day and age:
Surprised you forgot "people who might be transgender (wE cAn AlWaYs TeLl)"
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Perhaps the real tea is the shitposts we made along the way.
I mean it would be inconvenient but they would still dissolve, they aren't super saturating sweetened tea in the south.
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Maybe the amount of sugar that cold water easily accepts is the correct amount to not taste like shit
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Also are we going to talk about the fact that I've never heard anyone outside of the south pronounce pecan as "pee-can?"
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We got Union as hell on this post, didn't we. Every time I come back it has more comments.
I'm still mad as fuck that I can't get my precious Lipton Instant Tea at Walmart, because I really was raised in a trailer park, so maybe that's why I had to delete my own giant shitty comment about this.
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the correct response to somebody trying to order sweet tea in the north is and always has been this quote from 30 rock:
“I'm gonna come back in 5 minutes, if you try to order off menu again I will slap those glasses off your face.”
Sweet tea is fucking disgusting and anyone who drinks that shit ought to be ashamed of themselves.