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  • If you’re using “sweetener packets”, you’re not drinking sweet tea.

    If you’re talking about northern restaurant iced tea, yeah, it’s awful. Have you ever tried to reheat hot black tea gone room temperature in the microwave? Refrigerate that horror show and you’ll have northern restaurant iced tea.

    To make it worse, some people try to mix granulated sugar into this iced cold mess, where it doesn’t dissolve, but sinks to the bottom of the glass instead.

    OP is right, this is garbage. But OP likely hasn’t had real sweet tea. It’s brewed such that the bitter, tannin taste isn’t there. The sugar is added when it’s still hot.