This blog post proves that the concept "Iced Tea" in the U.S. is actually a Southern U.S. invention from slave masters. Read the whole thread to figure this out. thanks
While iced tea is more than six times as common as ice tea in the Lexis-Nexis database of US news sources, it is only about two times more common in the Lexis-Nexis database of UK news sources. Also interesting to note is that while tea-giant Lipton uses iced tea on its US site, the company has a site for non-US tea drinkers that opts for ice tea.
Iced tea and iced coffee may eventually go the way of iced cream, which would mean some kicking and screaming (in the style of usage commentators, which is admittedly pretty tame).
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/ice-tea-vs-iced-tea
Iced Tea is a specific process of making tea first and then adding ice to the concentrated tea brew to cool down the tea.
Iced tea is iced because it is hot tea brewed double strength and then diluted with ice. That’s the proper way to make iced tea
It was a process of making cool tea obviously invented in the U.S. that prides itself on "neato cool" cooking recipes. This process was then passed on as a "concept" that now just means any kind of tea that has been cooled in a machine.
Whereas the rest of the world uses the phrase Ice Tea to specifically and more precisely mean tea that literally has ice in it. In which case tea that is brewed and kept in a cooling machine is thus not "ice tea" but rather just straight unsweetened tea. The assumption here in the U.S. is that "hot tea" is its own unique category of tea in contrast to "Iced tea" when in fact "tea" is not inherently "hot" if it does not have ice in it. Rather "Ice tea" is more precisely a "cold brew" tea like "cold brew" coffee - no ice is required but the temperature is "ice" or cold brew.
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https://www.partstown.com/about-us/how-do-restaurants-make-their-iced-tea
Let the tea cool – It’s important to let it cool before putting it into the refrigerator so you don’t heat up the surrounding food. Also, don’t dump ice into it right away, as that will water it down. Wait until the tea is good and cold before serving over ice
So the above "restaurant iced tea" specifies that in the three different ways of creating the tea for each case the tea should be "served over ice" - meaning it is "ice tea" as the final result, whether it was prepared with ice or not with ice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tea/comments/156ulbv/why_isnt_there_a_tradition_for_iced_tea_in_the_uk/
Why isn't there a tradition for iced tea in the UK like there is in America?
precisely my point. Iced Tea is referring to a specific historical process of how the tea is brewed - not to its final "served over ice" meaning for "ice tea" outside the u.s.
It just seems strange that America doesn't have much of a tea culture at
all EXCEPT for iced tea. But the UK which has an extensive tea culture
doesn't have one for iced tea.
put some ice in our bike bottles and fill the rest of the bottle with
tea. Their look of revulsion was at first surprising. Later, as a
defense, we'd almost get evangelical about it.
nobody wants to pay 5 euros for a drink that is 70% ice AND there's no refills.
when you go back to the era of early refrigeration, iced tea was a luxury that was worth the effort and expense for US southern plantation owners (who didn't have to actually put in the work, just the expense) but not for the common folk in England where the heat wasn't intense enough on any regular basis to make such effort worthwhile.
Iced tea, while not invented, was popularized at the Chicago World's Fair.
Ice boxes came later to Europe later that a lot of America for a variety of reasons. Ice in drinks is generally less common
It wasn’t until prohibition that iced tea really caught on as a big drink in the US, as a replacement for beer, and even after repeal American drinking culture never really recovered. I don’t know about England, but here in Ireland having a pint at lunch on a hot day is fairly normal. When I worked in California and ordered a beer at a work lunch I was generally the only one and I got some funny looks.
Also, according to NPR, the rise of iced tea for Americans began because of Prohibition in St Louis due to their ability to combat summer heat
I'm American and I don't like Iced Tea, it's waaaaay too sweet.
Unsweetened iced tea is a thing, and is much more popular in many parts of America
Every time my Grandma would visit us, she’d order “iced tea” at restaurants. My Dad would ask her (every time) if she wanted sweet tea and she would always look at him in shock and revulsion with an adamant NO. If you don’t specify in the South you get sweet tea. If you don’t specify in the North, you get unsweet (it’s not uncommon for them to not brew sweet tea up there at all…
https://www.reddit.com/r/settlethisforme/comments/9oqngq/what_is_iced_tea/
My bf made sweet tea the other day and kept it in the refrigerator. I asked him if I could have some of the iced tea he made and he replied “I don’t have iced tea but I have sweet tea.” So that’s how we got into a heated argument about the different types of tea.
He argued that there’s hot tea and there’s cold tea, and that iced tea is a subset of cold tea. He thinks that to make a tea “iced” there has to be ice in it or had to have had ice in it at one point.
I argued that “iced” just means cold and not literal ice.
"Iced" is describing the tea. If you want some iced tea, pour his cold tea over ice. Otherwise, its still just tea. Just like cold coffee/iced coffee, or cold water/iced water. That being said, unless you don't have any ice, he could have very well given you a glass of iced tea.
All sweet tea is iced tea, but not all iced tea is sweet tea. The presence of ice does not make it iced tea.
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