The taste is just plain dreadful. Not only is it bitter, the whole “sweet” part doesn’t even taste like the usual sweet you think of. Like lemonade, yes it is perfectly sweet. Soda beverages, THAT’S sweet. But TEA, awful. And it’s like no matter how many sweetener packets you put in it, it doesn’t at all help. It’s one of those drinks where you might give it another chance if it’s available thinking it might be better but it always lets you down.
Unpopular? Depends on where you’re saying this.
And my friend, by mentioning sweetener packets, you’re drinking the wrong sweet tea. Come on out to a BBQ restaurant in the American south where they brew it with actual sugar as part of the process. Ranges from a pleasant beverage to making your teeth hurt.
Unsweetened iced tea fan here. There’s a time and place for the sweet stuff, but it can be good. Generally speaking it errs on too sweet though.
Yeah, sweetener packets is not the way. The sugar needs to be dissolved in while the tea is still warm. It can’t become the right sweetness otherwise, sugar just falls out of solution
Water + sugar + bunches of Lipton + a sealed jar in the summer sun
fuck Lipton, go with a proper loose leaf black tea please, not some brown mystery powder
Lipton is just what I see on most commercial tea spigots