What do americans think is "too sweet"?

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A Southerner's definition of tea is one part tea, ten parts diabeetus. A Southerner's definition of sweet tea is a non-Euclidean amount of sugar.
The only time American beverages aren't overly sweet is when they get yeast to ferment it all into alcohol first.
I love America, but it is a bring your own beverage country if you do not have the aryan genetic invulnerability to diabeetus.
 
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Sweet Tea is made by taking hot tea and dissolving the maximum amount of sugar in it that you can possibly have, And boy is it tasty.

On the other hand there is some weird shit out there with sweeteners. I got a boxed meal of "General Tso's Chicken", sweetened with Erythritol, a sugar alcohol. Which not only tastes like ass but some people have digestive problems with it.

Then I accidentally bought the same fucking thing again a few months later. I shouldn't have to read labels on everything to see what crap you put in it.
 
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redcoloured said:
A Southerner's definition of tea is one part tea, ten parts diabeetus. A Southerner's definition of sweet tea is a non-Euclidean amount of sugar.
The only time American beverages aren't overly sweet is when they get yeast to ferment it all into alcohol first.
I love America, but it is a bring your own beverage country if you do not have the aryan genetic invulnerability to diabeetus.
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It has to be understood that Southern sweet tea is functionally the same as soda. It has similar calories as soda, is drunk in similar situations as soda, etc. It's about as much black tea as Coca-Cola is cola leaf.
 
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I assumed that the reason sweet tea is so sweet is you're supposed fill the glass up with ice to the top, and the remaining volume with warm sweet tea, melting the ice and diluting the result.

If that's not the intent, uh...jesus.
 
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Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
Americans could down spoonfuls of pure sugar and bitch about it not being sweet enough.
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no shit, when I was a kid my mom had Belgian beet sugar in the house. used to eat this as a healthier alternative to rock candy.

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davids877 said:
Sweet Tea is made by taking hot tea and dissolving the maximum amount of sugar in it that you can possibly have, And boy is it tasty.
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Sweet tea, if left in the sun, is so sugar-laden it might turn to rock candy if it gets too hot. It's an obscene amount of sugar.

I guess sugar was seen as a luxury in the old days, and the more sugar you can use, the fancier you are.

I like Southern sweets but damn they love their sugar.
 
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Idk. I can’t eat chocolate unless it’s like 75% cacao or more. A Hershey bar is over 60% sugar by weight. Absolute garbage, fuck Hershey.

I also can’t order any sort of sweetened coffee from anywhere and I think it’s mostly because the high school kids they hire to work there have an absolutely warped sense of what “coffee” is. I just think it’s a waste to put so much of whatever in there that it interferes with tasting actual coffee. I’m not trying to melt a carton of coffee ice cream and slurp that shit.

I also hate the dumb sauces and marinades people put on meat they’re cooking. Like, no edible animal is made out of food that requires more than its own fat and a little sprinkle of salt and paper to flavormax. Don’t fucking GLAZE beef, fuck off we’re not Chinese
 
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Americans are disgusting, degenerate animals who slurp down toxic chemicals like pigs at a trough.
 
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eatler said:
Hey cool bug facts, did you know that subway changed the category of what type of food their sub bread was to cookies to evade Irish taxes. It actually had enough sugar to classify as that. This was advertised as health food when I was a kid.
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Not exactly it was the other way around.They had a court case end in 2020 after a decade of trying to get out of paying the VAT by saying their bread was a 'staple' therefore exempt but it actually has so much sugar (5 times as much as bread is allowed) that under the law it's classified as confectionary therefore subject to 13.5% VAT.

For something to be considered bread, the weight of fat and sugar in the dough should not exceed two per cent of the weight of the flour.
The court found Subway’s white and whole wheat “bread” failed to meet the criteria because the sugar weight was around 10 per cent. The sugar content bumped Subway buns into the confectionary category, which is subject to a 13.5 per cent VAT.
 
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Dyn said:
Americans are disgusting, degenerate animals who slurp down toxic chemicals like pigs at a trough.
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Isn’t your country essentially a vassal state for American energy companies? I’m pretty sure our fed even assassinated one of your leaders for threatening the gravy train of pillaging your natural resources.

What makes you think that our fed will allow Australians to have access to better food? American Samoa is in pretty close proximity and they’re all hooked on spam and other WWII slop that our government hasn’t stopped feeding its citizens since we transitioned to a war economy in the 1940s.
 
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