I feel like they should have done a blind taste test to figure out who makes the best homemade sweet tea first and then used that person's tea in this line up. Although this does illustrate that homemade isn't automatically better, it depends on who's making it.
@@lilykep The different brands do have a slightly different taste. Then add in things like brew time (hot brewed tea) vs cold brewed tea, and then sugar type and amount of said sugar. Edit: forgot to add that water quality/source makes a huge difference (tap, spring, filtered, hard/soft water, etc).
In a way it's reassuring that they both put homemade last, because that tells you the tea was the problem, not the judges. And in defense of Liz, homemade tea preference is highly personal and family-based, whereas with the premade stuff there's that element of familiarity that makes it taste better than it probably really is. I _like_ my tea less sweet - but then I'm also half-Yankee.
Homemade tea also depends on several factors like water quality, sugar used, and tea leaves brand/quality as well as the process for making it all. My partner and I use the same ingredients, but our homemade tea tastes different depending on which one of us made it and tastes completely different from his mother's, who lives next door to us.
I agree. The Tea my Aunt made in Kentucky and the Tea my Wife made in Georgia were both great but taste totally different. Both were very sweet but My Grampa had bees so We had fresh honey in the Tea and My Wife used to make hers in that bright hot southern Georgia sun with a bit of lemon in it. Adam, I don't want to talk about your Kidney stones but I 100% agree not something to do twice! all I have to say is 11mm!!
I would like to see one with all homemade teas using the top teas, like Luzianne, Upton and Lipton. And each being made the exact same way. Same amount of sugar, same brew time, etc.
I was curious about the energy drink teas that claim to be green tea and southern sweet tea varieties. Heck even alcoholic drinks dipped into the tea category. Biggest question of all though is do those variations even count as tea anymore? 🤔
the key to making excellent sweet tea, is adding enough sugar where even if your ice melts, the sweetness threshold of your beverage never falls below maximum enjoyment. you're welcome.
I’m a 60 yes old Alabamian now, and grew up on Mom’s homemade, high octane, Lipton sweet tea made in an Alabama Girl pickle jar, then kept in the fridge in an old plastic milk jug. We were kind of poor, so we didn’t do restaurants and I never saw ready-made tea for sale at the Piggly Wiggly or A&P, so I had nothing to compare it to. When I grew up, I moved away from tea and began drinking Coke & Dr Pepper. When I went back to sweet tea years later, I found I didn’t care for Lipton anymore. I tried several other brands but they just didn’t taste good anymore. Then a 4th of July came. I was asked to bring a few gallons of sweet tea. When I went to the store to get tea bags to make it, the only tea left was decaffeinated Luziane. With dread, and no other option, I bought it. I used 5 bags like Mom did with the Lipton, and added the same 3 scoops of sugar she did with the odd scoop she had. I poured some into a half glass of ice and took a reluctant drink. It was amazing! I took it to the cookout and it was a huge hit. Everyone loved it. When asked, I just told them I was out of sugar and used a bag of natural brown sugar from Madagascar I had gotten as a Christmas gift from some pretentious Yankee friends to sweeten it. I mean, how could I admit to it NOT being Lipton AND being decaf? That would be two of the three strikes required for a lifetime ban from my home state. Even if It was, and still is, the best glass of sweet iced tea I’ve ever had. Roll Tide and pass the Luzianne.
I'm a Northerner we don't get Luzianne up here so I have to buy it online or get it from friends when they go down south and lemme tell you it's THE best tea I've ever had.
@@faethe000 -- ** Too poor for RESTAURANTS and STORE BOUGHT tea. Not "...too poor to afford tea". A Southerner will most likely sell their firstborn child or football collectable (whichever is easiest to sell) in order to afford tea. It's just how we are :P :D
So my Girlfriend actually has a kidney condition where she gets a lot of kidney stones. And one way that you can majorly reduce your risk of kidney stones is with lemonade! More specifically lemons/lemon juice is really good for it. That's basically what her Urologist told her to do in order to help prevent them.
My dad brought it in the house a few years back because it's made with natural ingredients with honey, and it's less sweet than places like Wife Saver's or Bojangles'. I've got my own place now and I usually always have 1 or 2 jugs of Milo's sweet tea in the fridge.
If you are going to reduce the sugar, you have to upgrade the quality of your tea. The bitter tea balances the sugar, like Starbucks burns their coffee beans to balance the sugar and milk in their blended coffee drinks
Burns their coffee beans? Ugh! That would explain why their coffee always tastes burnt then. That’s no good if you take your coffee black and without sugar.
This reminds me of what my mother, a dietitian, called “the standard product.” That’s the way a given food is supposed to taste, and it can vary. Maybe Milo’s hits the standard-product mark.
I have had kidney stones too. I tell people if we could duplicate that (and gallstones too) pain by machine or something, we could get state secrets out of anybody in less than 10 minutes.
I've had kidney stones three different times. Once you've had it, it's easily recognizable when you get it again. Heat therapy works best on it, whether a heat pad or getting in a hot shower.
Yeah I had one and would not wish that on my enemy. One put my brother in the emergency room One friend said she would rather have another baby w/o meds than another kidney stone. Another friend however is prone to them and has to get them sonically busted up regularly.
I realize that some of you don't think Virginia is in the south, but here we have Luzianne available, which seems like it should be included in your tea lineups (Matt didn't include in Bless Your Rank either).
@@seanboudreaux8285 Yes, that is what I use. But here they sell ready-to-drink Luzianne. And it is actually bottled in Louisiana, so they are shipping it here across Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia & the Carolinas. I would think that they would drop some off along the way.
I am prone to kidney stones myself and have actually had to have surgery major surgery. I had no idea sweet tea could cause kidney stones and I am now devastated.
Apparently a lot of foods that are common in the South can lead to kidney stones including black tea (used for sweet tea), spinach, grits, okra, sweet potatoes and french fries. All because they are high in oxalates that can form into kidney stones. I had one decades ago after years of drinking sweet tea and likely not drinking enough liquids. Now I still get the little crystals passing on occasion (you can feel the sharp edged sand bits passing through) but I drink lots of water so those pass relatively easily.
@@cr8tivecarbaholic Genetics and water certainly play a part but the oxalate issue is a known fact. You can doubt it if you wish but science has proven it to be a problem, depending upon how much you intake. To the point where at least one person damaged his kidneys from too much sweet tea (a gallon or more a day.)
Makes me wonder if maybe the weird taste on homemade is dish soap/plastic. Like they had just washed out the pitcher or they poured boiling water on tea bags in a plastic pitcher and that’s why it tastes funky.
A google review of a gumbo place near one of my old jobs called their sweet tea "liquid diabeetus in a cup." I miss that tea way more than I miss that job!
I still find it funny that when I was working for DQ, they Always had me making the Sweet Tea. They acted as if I was conducting Rocket Science. They always said I did it Right.
Homemade all the way. Currently in the Midwest for school but I make sweet tea for my husband to take to work in a glass milk jug, and everyone keeps stealing it from him. They want him to teach them how to make it cause everytime they make it, it doesn't taste the same. Well yeah it's that Southern Touch. :)
Milo's is not just sweet but awesome in that our Walmart didn't have one of Milo's flavors and me and others messaged Milo's about our local Walmart, and Milo's came through and Walmart too and got it in store! Loved it!!!
My sweet tea story...I'm northeast Ohio born and bred, but Mom was a Georgia girl, so I've spent some time in the South. Years ago, a pizza place , now out of business, added sweet tea to their menu (this was before McDonald's started making sweet tea). Shortly after they did so, I went in one day to enjoy their lunch pizza buffet and ordered the sweet tea. The waitress gave me a dubious look and asked if I was sure that was what I wanted. I said yes, and she shrugged and brought me a glass. It was delicious--very sweet but not quite syrupy. The waitress actually stayed to watch me drink it and when I complimented her on the sweet tea, she told me I was only the second customer to like it and not complain it was too sweet. The first? A gentleman who grew up in the South. I guess sweet tea is an acquired taste...and I'm glad I acquired it!
Funny story about sweet tea: We went to McD's recently and were complaining to ourselves about how sweet their tea is. The manager happened to be next to us and decided to explain that they had "Southern" sweet tea whereas up north it was "just sweet tea or even unsweet tea," as if we were some sort of yankee tourists at a waypoint to our travel destination. I didn't want to break his heart, so I avoided telling him that I had never been above the Mason-Dixon line and my partner (the one talking about it the most, but with worldly travels under his belt) had grown up just outside of the town this McD's was in.
@@kaldogorath We live in South Central Alabama. We use a cup and a half of raw cane sugar in our gallon tea pitcher. McDonald's tea is just ... brown colored simple syrup 🤣
@@trelana I worked there as my first job and I made the tea. We put a 5lb bag of white sugar into 5 gallons of tea. It works out to about 2 cups per gallon.
I never had Milo's sweet tea before. Because I don't like store bought sweet tea. Now we are on vacation here in Cape Hatteras NC. And my wife bought Milo's sweet tea wow! That is some great sweet tea. Thanks ya'll
When I visited NYC in 2008, McD's sweet tea was all I drank. It tasted fine to me, not overly sweet at all. Perhaps NYC McD's workers put less sugar in the tea than Southern ones do?
It's possible, but in the midwest we put too much also. I have to cut it with half unsweet. When I worked there we put a 5lb bag of sugar in 5 gallons of tea.
I live in South Carolina and love tea in general. Here we have the only Tea plantation in the United States (Charleston Tea Plantation) and are credited with being the home of Sweet Tea. Having said that, I prefer unsweetened or lightly sweet tea and really like Milo's. Why isn't unsweetened Milo's available anymore?
@@Lord9Genesis There is unsweetened it just depends on demand for the stores in your area. Even stores in my state can struggle to stock all the varieties, especially when starts to get hotter.
Milo’s is the best store bought by far. My favorite from fast food is Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s super strong with the right amount of sweet. I got my sister addicted to it. She’s banned from making tea because hers used to be so thick from sugar it was like syrup. She likes to go through Krispy Kreme to get doughnuts then DD for tea
My uncle makes tea but no one drinks it. It's not that he puts too much sugar in it, he either boils the bags or leaves it too soak too long. The stuff is black as soda and so bitter/strong it's not tolerable until it's cut 4 to 1 with water at least.
I remember, one time I had tea at my friend's house. I don't know what his mom did but that tea was horrible. She made it unsweet and you added your own sugar. I put a cup of sugar in my glass and it still tasted bad.
Midwestern here,my husband co worker went down south sometime and he asked for ice tea at a restaurant and he got sweeeeeeet tea, he said “it’s SO sweet“ he just wanted regular ice tea the worker said “this is regular ice tea” 😵🤣 you southern love your sweet tea!
I knew as soon as she said it had a weird aftertaste that one was homemade. I make it all the time and it's tough to get the perfect balance of strong enough but not so strong the tannins become overbearing and it tastes like shoe polish. Once you have that taste in there it's just impossible to sugar it away. Mass produced shouldn't have that (they'd have no customers!) because their process would have been nailed down so it's uniform and always palatable.
red diamond taste less sweet than it used to, so milo's has been my pick..... but let me tell you about popeyes gallon sugar cane sweet tea it is literally liquid sugar than goes down as smooth as water its acid and will lead me a path of self destruction or any place than has unsweet, sweet, alt. sweet (no sugar), and then "Country Sweet", that country sweet is ridiculous////i think they put so much sugar it actually takes awhile more the sugar to dissolve then they mix it with or without some lemons.
I wonder if 'country sweet' was as sweet as it was because they had water from a well and made it that sweet to kill the taste of the water? A relative of mine used to have that situation, I complained that their tea was too sweet, they made some for me without the sugar. It was really bad, I never complained again.
Answer me a question, cast and crew- is Talia always this bubbly when the cameras are off? If so, she should hire herself out as an official "Social Sprucer-Upper" to brighten up events.
@@cisium1184 I'll bet she's still charming to everyone around her except for that misbehaving eight-year-old. I raised 4 offspring. Dr. Jeckl-Mr Hyde comes naturally once a person becomes a parent.
IKR! One of my SIL's (may she rest in the peace that she deserves after dealing with her kids) used to put so much sugar in her tea, 4 cups, that only her husband and her liked it. The rest of us would drink soda or (my preference) ice water. I'll make a gallon of green tea, unsweetened, for my husband. As I've gotten older (66 now), if I drink tea, I like it to be a cup of hot tea. Yes, I'm a truly born Southerner, born in Alabama, and raised just over the AL/FL line.
Love this content! It's really the first I've seen of this type and they did really good. Matt is funny with bless your rank but I never agree with him lol
So. I’m from Washington state, recently moved to SC. My opinion, for what it’s worth…We have taste tested LOTS of sweet tea, because we love it, and haven’t had our blood sugar tested lately. 😅 So far, we do like Publix better than Milo’s. But the BEST sweet tea in our little town is from Metro Diner. It is amazing. Only get it on special occasions though ‘cause it’s 12.00 a gallon. 😯 We walked out one day with 2 gallons, looked at our bill and just about fainted. But it’s sooo good. Now we buy it when our northern friends come for a visit and we want them to taste good ‘ol southern deliciousness! PS…someone….please put down your homemade grandma’s sweet tea recipe!! Thank you 🙏🏼
When make my home made tea semi strong, semi sweet. After few hours n next day it gets sweeter, semi strong cause time you put ice it makes just right. I love whataburger tea
I was told to drink more water. I said I do drink a lot of water... I just soak teabags in it first. Sadly, no more sugar for me, (pre-diabetic...thanx mom😒), so it's Truvia now.
I drank that stuff by the bucketful in law school - half sweet/half unsweet, with a lemon's worth of lemon wedges in each cup. It's a wonder I still have any stomach left at all.
Heck I drink Dr Pepper almost exclusively and haven’t had a kidney stone yet. Anytime my kidneys start hurting I switch to cranberry juice for a week and then it’s back to the Doctor’s, so to speak lol
it's the high oxalate levels in the tea that can lead to kidney stones. same thing from green leafy veggies as someone on here mentioned spinach leading to stones.
I'm not living in the US right now and Lipton is all I can buy, but I don't boil it. I miss Luzianne. At least this Lipton Yellow Label is better than the normal Lipton.
@@kaldogorath have you tried using green tea and doing sweet tea with it. I ran out of tea yrs ago and decided to give it a try. Oh my goodness! It's sooo good. Mint julep is my favorite though. But it's hard to find. Makes the perfect summer tea though.
Luzianne tea is the best for homemade, and I like to add a mix of white sugar and brown sugar because I think the molasses gives the tea a nice touch. For store-bought tea, Milo’s is hands down the best. As for fast food tea, Whataburger is great, as is Bush’s Chicken.
Red Diamond > Milo's 1/2 sweet and 1/2 unsweet tea from Taco Casa with lemon is wonderful as well. "They got that good ice." 😀 If you are doing a 1/2 & 1/2 tea, please pour the unsweet first.
Homemade - steep Luisianne, squeeze out tea bags into pot. While still warm add sugar to issolve, then dilute with fresh water. Water source needs to taste good too.
Lol. Love you guys. Been in the south for 20yrs now...still totally don't get the ubersweet tea thang. (May as well just cut to the chase and drink straight Karo syrup)
Roflol. If southerners ranked some homemade tea last, then someone sure doesn't know how to make tea! Lol. But Milo's and Red Diamond are pretty good picks if you're in a pinch for tea. When vacationing or traveling and I can't make my own, those are the two brands I look for. And the Good Lord forbid and I do have to endure McDonald's, then I have to mix their syrup with the unsweetened vat. And do a half and half. Their tea is awful and will leave you even more thirsty than you were.
I've never had Milo's cause I'm not in the south, but Red Diamond is pretty decent. I used to like Brisk but they changed it several years ago and it's not too good anymore.
Matt skipping Publix sweet tea on bless your rank has been rectified today. Talia calling it Mickey D's was depressing, but instantly correcting herself brought back my home for human kind
Adam is so right. One kidney stone per lifetime is way more than enough. It also taught me to drink LOTS of water every day to keep the whole system flushed.
I grew up in the south and my parents and grandparents were from the south -but we never had sweet tea. I learned early to ask if I was at someone's house before taking a swig -the sweet can be really really sugary
There is 49 grams of sugar in a large McDonald's sweet tea I used to love their tea and would drink it all the time Then well now I can't So I get unsweetened Which is the saddest way to drink tea :(
I feel like they should have done a blind taste test to figure out who makes the best homemade sweet tea first and then used that person's tea in this line up. Although this does illustrate that homemade isn't automatically better, it depends on who's making it.
Yeah I've had some nasty homemade tea, it really depends on who and how they make it
Yeah, and they put in some tea that they never tasted, why would you do that?
Agreed
Also the kinda tea you use. Apparently they used Lipton which is not my favorite. I prefer Luzianne
@@lilykep The different brands do have a slightly different taste. Then add in things like brew time (hot brewed tea) vs cold brewed tea, and then sugar type and amount of said sugar. Edit: forgot to add that water quality/source makes a huge difference (tap, spring, filtered, hard/soft water, etc).
So evidently Liz will NOT be asked to bring the Sweet Tea to the barbeque!
Unless she needs to filter her water first. 😉
@@trelana or just add more sugar!
In a way it's reassuring that they both put homemade last, because that tells you the tea was the problem, not the judges. And in defense of Liz, homemade tea preference is highly personal and family-based, whereas with the premade stuff there's that element of familiarity that makes it taste better than it probably really is. I _like_ my tea less sweet - but then I'm also half-Yankee.
Homemade tea also depends on several factors like water quality, sugar used, and tea leaves brand/quality as well as the process for making it all. My partner and I use the same ingredients, but our homemade tea tastes different depending on which one of us made it and tastes completely different from his mother's, who lives next door to us.
I agree. The Tea my Aunt made in Kentucky and the Tea my Wife made in Georgia were both great but taste totally different. Both were very sweet but My Grampa had bees so We had fresh honey in the Tea and My Wife used to make hers in that bright hot southern Georgia sun with a bit of lemon in it.
Adam, I don't want to talk about your Kidney stones but I 100% agree not something to do twice! all I have to say is 11mm!!
Homemade tea is hard to peg down I like a touch of sweetness.
I think the tea maker came from "it's a northern thing." Seriously last place by two tasters?
Right, but to come in last place by two tasters means that it was made by a Yankee it seems.
I would like to see one with all homemade teas using the top teas, like Luzianne, Upton and Lipton. And each being made the exact same way. Same amount of sugar, same brew time, etc.
That sounds fun!!
Everyone knows Luzianne is the best tea 😝
Lipton is the only one that matters, let's be honest 😆
@@chelseyaustin6015 I agree TOTALLY. I did some taste testing myself. And it’s the best one by far. IMHO
I was curious about the energy drink teas that claim to be green tea and southern sweet tea varieties. Heck even alcoholic drinks dipped into the tea category. Biggest question of all though is do those variations even count as tea anymore? 🤔
the key to making excellent sweet tea, is adding enough sugar where even if your ice melts, the sweetness threshold of your beverage never falls below maximum enjoyment. you're welcome.
Agreed, warm sweet tea is too sweet, needs the melted ice to dilute it. Store bought refrigerated tea has a different ratio.
Why does it take you that long to drink it? That’s my question….
That’s also how you’ll get diabetes. The less sugar you use the less you will crave and you’ll get used to regular not soo sugary sweet tea.
@@noone9177 sometimes I think Milo’s and Red Diamond are on a mission to give everyone in the south diabetes.
I’m a 60 yes old Alabamian now, and grew up on Mom’s homemade, high octane, Lipton sweet tea made in an Alabama Girl pickle jar, then kept in the fridge in an old plastic milk jug.
We were kind of poor, so we didn’t do restaurants and I never saw ready-made tea for sale at the Piggly Wiggly or A&P, so I had nothing to compare it to. When I grew up, I moved away from tea and began drinking Coke & Dr Pepper.
When I went back to sweet tea years later, I found I didn’t care for Lipton anymore. I tried several other brands but they just didn’t taste good anymore. Then a 4th of July came. I was asked to bring a few gallons of sweet tea. When I went to the store to get tea bags to make it, the only tea left was decaffeinated Luziane. With dread, and no other option, I bought it. I used 5 bags like Mom did with the Lipton, and added the same 3 scoops of sugar she did with the odd scoop she had. I poured some into a half glass of ice and took a reluctant drink. It was amazing! I took it to the cookout and it was a huge hit. Everyone loved it. When asked, I just told them I was out of sugar and used a bag of natural brown sugar from Madagascar I had gotten as a Christmas gift from some pretentious Yankee friends to sweeten it. I mean, how could I admit to it NOT being Lipton AND being decaf? That would be two of the three strikes required for a lifetime ban from my home state. Even if It was, and still is, the best glass of sweet iced tea I’ve ever had.
Roll Tide and pass the Luzianne.
I'm a Northerner we don't get Luzianne up here so I have to buy it online or get it from friends when they go down south and lemme tell you it's THE best tea I've ever had.
Southerners: "we were too poor to afford tea"
Also Southerners: "everyone should live like us"
@@faethe000 -- ** Too poor for RESTAURANTS and STORE BOUGHT tea. Not "...too poor to afford tea".
A Southerner will most likely sell their firstborn child or football collectable (whichever is easiest to sell) in order to afford tea. It's just how we are :P :D
😂🤣
@@feliciapate7926 It's weird how you think that's better.
Talia is always such a sweet lady, even when she has to downgrade a homemade sweet tea.
Liz isn't kicking Talia out of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, but she's putting her on notice. 😋
Happy Mother’s Day to you Southern Moms.
Sincerely,
A Yankee
So my Girlfriend actually has a kidney condition where she gets a lot of kidney stones. And one way that you can majorly reduce your risk of kidney stones is with lemonade! More specifically lemons/lemon juice is really good for it. That's basically what her Urologist told her to do in order to help prevent them.
Arnold Palmer's all day
Cranberry juice also. Cleans the kidneys.
@@Amanita-Minute53 No, cranberry contains oxalate. Kidney stones are made of calcium oxalate. Thus cranberry juice can increase kidney stones.
@@Amanita-Minute53 false
Milo's. It'll turn your face inside out
I saw Liz at the Renaissance festival in Atlanta yesterday, really mad that I didn't say anything, so Hi Liz!!!! love the channel!
Adam the lightning round was hilarious that needs to happen every time and I think your kidney stones give you a gold membership of the Southern card
With McD's sweet tea, I have to get half sweet/half unsweet. Otherwise, I cannot drink it. Milos does have some good sweet tea though!
To be honest, I wonder if this is a Southern thing with McDonalds. When I ate there, the tea was actually good and drinkable.
That's what I do!
My dad brought it in the house a few years back because it's made with natural ingredients with honey, and it's less sweet than places like Wife Saver's or Bojangles'. I've got my own place now and I usually always have 1 or 2 jugs of Milo's sweet tea in the fridge.
See, I’m exactly the opposite. The tea at the McD’s in my area isn’t very sweet at all. Bojangles has the sweetest fast food tea!
That's how I drink it.
It's Milo's sweet tea or moms. Happy Mother's Day to all moms.
YES! I'm drinking Milo's right now and will be having Mom's tomorrow!
@Mrs Alma and Miss Sally: Mama's. Then Milo's Lemonade Variant. Then Red Diamond!🤱🍵🍋♦️B.W.
If you are going to reduce the sugar, you have to upgrade the quality of your tea. The bitter tea balances the sugar, like Starbucks burns their coffee beans to balance the sugar and milk in their blended coffee drinks
I like this tactic! We don't add a lot of sugar (in fact ... It is probably half sweet) but we use good tea (p g tips)
Burns their coffee beans? Ugh! That would explain why their coffee always tastes burnt then. That’s no good if you take your coffee black and without sugar.
Upgrading the tea helps, but also making it properly helps. The hotter you make tea the more bitter it will taste. That's why suntea is so good.
Talia saying “oh no” over and over each one getting sadder made my night 😂 can you do this again with everyone making their own and y’all taste it.
This reminds me of what my mother, a dietitian, called “the standard product.” That’s the way a given food is supposed to taste, and it can vary. Maybe Milo’s hits the standard-product mark.
I have had kidney stones too. I tell people if we could duplicate that (and gallstones too) pain by machine or something, we could get state secrets out of anybody in less than 10 minutes.
I've had kidney stones three different times. Once you've had it, it's easily recognizable when you get it again. Heat therapy works best on it, whether a heat pad or getting in a hot shower.
Ugh yes. My gallstones hurt so bad one night it hurt to breathe and my lips turned blue because I was taking small shallow breathes.
Yeah I had one and would not wish that on my enemy. One put my brother in the emergency room One friend said she would rather have another baby w/o meds than another kidney stone. Another friend however is prone to them and has to get them sonically busted up regularly.
It seems you just need to force them to drink copious amounts of sweet tea.
These people are just super charming I love it.
I realize that some of you don't think Virginia is in the south, but here we have Luzianne available, which seems like it should be included in your tea lineups (Matt didn't include in Bless Your Rank either).
Luzianne bags make superb iced tea, I agree.
@@seanboudreaux8285 Yes, that is what I use. But here they sell ready-to-drink Luzianne. And it is actually bottled in Louisiana, so they are shipping it here across Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia & the Carolinas. I would think that they would drop some off along the way.
Yep, love Luzianne for iced tea.
No they put Virginia in there southern states roasting each riger
I love Luzianne. I don't care for Lipton.
I am a big tea drinker and got kidney stone's also. I switched to green tea year's ago and have never had another problem.
I am prone to kidney stones myself and have actually had to have surgery major surgery. I had no idea sweet tea could cause kidney stones and I am now devastated.
Apparently a lot of foods that are common in the South can lead to kidney stones including black tea (used for sweet tea), spinach, grits, okra, sweet potatoes and french fries. All because they are high in oxalates that can form into kidney stones.
I had one decades ago after years of drinking sweet tea and likely not drinking enough liquids. Now I still get the little crystals passing on occasion (you can feel the sharp edged sand bits passing through) but I drink lots of water so those pass relatively easily.
Its most likely the water used and genetics. Not tea.
Solution to kidney stones... Cranberry capsules..
@@cr8tivecarbaholic Genetics and water certainly play a part but the oxalate issue is a known fact. You can doubt it if you wish but science has proven it to be a problem, depending upon how much you intake. To the point where at least one person damaged his kidneys from too much sweet tea (a gallon or more a day.)
Makes me wonder if maybe the weird taste on homemade is dish soap/plastic. Like they had just washed out the pitcher or they poured boiling water on tea bags in a plastic pitcher and that’s why it tastes funky.
never put soap in teapot or pitcher good ol hot water and a rag or salt and ice
It could also be the tea itself. Some brands are not as good as others.
Or they let it steep too long. That can affect the flavor a lot.
Pure Leaf Extra Sweet Tea (Purple label) is thee best tea! I’m a Virginian who drinks it every day 💛
I absolutely adore the entire cast of this show!!! I want them as neighbors instead of the crack head and meth addicts I currently have.
A google review of a gumbo place near one of my old jobs called their sweet tea "liquid diabeetus in a cup."
I miss that tea way more than I miss that job!
I still find it funny that when I was working for DQ, they Always had me making the Sweet Tea. They acted as if I was conducting Rocket Science.
They always said I did it Right.
Homemade all the way. Currently in the Midwest for school but I make sweet tea for my husband to take to work in a glass milk jug, and everyone keeps stealing it from him. They want him to teach them how to make it cause everytime they make it, it doesn't taste the same. Well yeah it's that Southern Touch. :)
I live in NJ. I don't think I've ever drank sweet tea. Why am I watching this? Because I like these two...
Same here in MI.
Talia sounds so disappointed that the Publix sweet tea isn't watered down whiskey
please do a part 2, there are so many teas out there, both pre-made and for making at home! good video, need more people to taste test, though!
Matt did one on this channel ranking bottled sweet teas.
I'm surprised Gold Peak didn't make it. It's a richer brew than Milo's, but it doesn't go well with any food like Milo's does.
Guarantee that Liz squeezed the tea bags after she poured the steeped tea into the pitcher. Doing that gives it a funny aftertaste.
Milo's is not just sweet but awesome in that our Walmart didn't have one of Milo's flavors and me and others messaged Milo's about our local Walmart, and Milo's came through and Walmart too and got it in store!
Loved it!!!
I wish we could still get Milo's unsweetened tea here in Charleston. They stopped carrying it here in Wal-Mart and Publix...
My sweet tea story...I'm northeast Ohio born and bred, but Mom was a Georgia girl, so I've spent some time in the South. Years ago, a pizza place , now out of business, added sweet tea to their menu (this was before McDonald's started making sweet tea). Shortly after they did so, I went in one day to enjoy their lunch pizza buffet and ordered the sweet tea. The waitress gave me a dubious look and asked if I was sure that was what I wanted. I said yes, and she shrugged and brought me a glass. It was delicious--very sweet but not quite syrupy. The waitress actually stayed to watch me drink it and when I complimented her on the sweet tea, she told me I was only the second customer to like it and not complain it was too sweet. The first? A gentleman who grew up in the South. I guess sweet tea is an acquired taste...and I'm glad I acquired it!
Talia made this so much better 🤣
Funny story about sweet tea:
We went to McD's recently and were complaining to ourselves about how sweet their tea is. The manager happened to be next to us and decided to explain that they had "Southern" sweet tea whereas up north it was "just sweet tea or even unsweet tea," as if we were some sort of yankee tourists at a waypoint to our travel destination. I didn't want to break his heart, so I avoided telling him that I had never been above the Mason-Dixon line and my partner (the one talking about it the most, but with worldly travels under his belt) had grown up just outside of the town this McD's was in.
I'm from Missouri, the sweet tea is too sweet there even. I literally have to cut it with unsweet tea, half and half, to make it drinkable.
@@kaldogorath We live in South Central Alabama. We use a cup and a half of raw cane sugar in our gallon tea pitcher. McDonald's tea is just ... brown colored simple syrup 🤣
@@trelana I worked there as my first job and I made the tea. We put a 5lb bag of white sugar into 5 gallons of tea. It works out to about 2 cups per gallon.
I never had Milo's sweet tea before. Because I don't like store bought sweet tea. Now we are on vacation here in Cape Hatteras NC. And my wife bought Milo's sweet tea wow! That is some great sweet tea. Thanks ya'll
Our homemade sweet tea, brewed, loose-leaf Lipton, is our family's favorite.
I'm surprised you didn't get Matt to do this too
Matt did a few sweet tea reviews for Bless Your Rank
When I visited NYC in 2008, McD's sweet tea was all I drank. It tasted fine to me, not overly sweet at all. Perhaps NYC McD's workers put less sugar in the tea than Southern ones do?
It's possible, but in the midwest we put too much also. I have to cut it with half unsweet. When I worked there we put a 5lb bag of sugar in 5 gallons of tea.
lol Talia sounded a little disappointed that one of them wasn’t whiskey.
Next up, Talia doing whisky tasting.
I am a merchandiser for Milo’s, so I had to watch this. Good to know how well they did. I will have to find the Mayo one.
I live in South Carolina and love tea in general. Here we have the only Tea plantation in the United States (Charleston Tea Plantation) and are credited with being the home of Sweet Tea.
Having said that, I prefer unsweetened or lightly sweet tea and really like Milo's. Why isn't unsweetened Milo's available anymore?
@@Lord9Genesis There is unsweetened it just depends on demand for the stores in your area. Even stores in my state can struggle to stock all the varieties, especially when starts to get hotter.
Also, Chick-fil-A, which you can buy by the gallon, is really good sweet tea.
I was surprised they didn't put CFA tea in the test.
That's the sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
I live in PA, but they sometimes have the Milo's tea by the checkout. I always get one when they have it... yummmmmy !!!
Okay I’m DYING to see these southerners do an unsweet tea taste test…I can’t imagine all the faces 😝
Coincidentally, they would die if they drank unsweet tea.
Milo’s is the best store bought by far. My favorite from fast food is Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s super strong with the right amount of sweet. I got my sister addicted to it. She’s banned from making tea because hers used to be so thick from sugar it was like syrup. She likes to go through Krispy Kreme to get doughnuts then DD for tea
Nah, sweet tea ain't good unless you can stand your spoon upright in it! 😉
Does she have diabetes yet?
@@ngs5554 No and we are generally mindful of the sugar intake. It is the disease we lost our Mama to.
My uncle makes tea but no one drinks it. It's not that he puts too much sugar in it, he either boils the bags or leaves it too soak too long. The stuff is black as soda and so bitter/strong it's not tolerable until it's cut 4 to 1 with water at least.
I remember, one time I had tea at my friend's house. I don't know what his mom did but that tea was horrible. She made it unsweet and you added your own sugar. I put a cup of sugar in my glass and it still tasted bad.
Homemade is different from house to house. They should have had their own tea in the test.
1:35 "... regular tea flavor."
I know what he's trying to say, but..
regular tea IS sweet tea!!!
Hey, y'all. Next time you're travelling through SC on interstate 85 swing by The Beacon in Spartanburg for some excellent sweet tea.
Yeah...someone failed at making homemade tea. They should be the one to have their Southern Card revoked.
💕💕💕💕💕Talia Lin!!!❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Milo’s is the goat. Love that they offer diet sweet tea for the non-sugar-friendly folk.
No Luzianne? None of this counts without Luzianne Sweet Tea
Somebody wants told me, that iced tea is like Kool-Aid. If you don't put enough sugar in it tastes like battery acid. 🤣
Midwestern here,my husband co worker went down south sometime and he asked for ice tea at a restaurant and he got sweeeeeeet tea, he said “it’s SO sweet“ he just wanted regular ice tea the worker said “this is regular ice tea” 😵🤣 you southern love your sweet tea!
I knew as soon as she said it had a weird aftertaste that one was homemade. I make it all the time and it's tough to get the perfect balance of strong enough but not so strong the tannins become overbearing and it tastes like shoe polish. Once you have that taste in there it's just impossible to sugar it away. Mass produced shouldn't have that (they'd have no customers!) because their process would have been nailed down so it's uniform and always palatable.
Drinking through a tall glass of iced milos as I'm watching this vid. Feeling good.
red diamond taste less sweet than it used to, so milo's has been my pick..... but let me tell you about popeyes gallon sugar cane sweet tea it is literally liquid sugar than goes down as smooth as water its acid and will lead me a path of self destruction or any place than has unsweet, sweet, alt. sweet (no sugar), and then "Country Sweet", that country sweet is ridiculous////i think they put so much sugar it actually takes awhile more the sugar to dissolve then they mix it with or without some lemons.
I wonder if 'country sweet' was as sweet as it was because they had water from a well and made it that sweet to kill the taste of the water? A relative of mine used to have that situation, I complained that their tea was too sweet, they made some for me without the sugar. It was really bad, I never complained again.
Cannot wait for the Kidney Stone follow-up.
Adam, you hung on to your southern card by a thread 😂
Y raises i think they're called. And i literally did those along with my rotator cuff work today. Nice
I love Milo's sweet tea and am so glad it showed up 2 years ago here in eastern Oregon so I can now enjoy it!
The trick to homemade ice tea is simple syrup.
Answer me a question, cast and crew- is Talia always this bubbly when the cameras are off? If so, she should hire herself out as an official "Social Sprucer-Upper" to brighten up events.
Talia has the kind of enduring charm than can only be switched off by an eight-year-old doing something he's been told not to.
@@cisium1184 I'll bet she's still charming to everyone around her except for that misbehaving eight-year-old. I raised 4 offspring. Dr. Jeckl-Mr Hyde comes naturally once a person becomes a parent.
Their lawyers have told them not to answer that question
@@mortenu.5606 Maybe her charm magically stops writs of humorous corpses.
Milo’s is 1000% the best Sweet tea you can buy, but when the homemade Sweet tea is done right it can’t be beat.
She is so pretty
Okay, now I want to know which Southerner makes the best sweet tea. It's time for a Sweet tea, tea time, tea off.
They got the wrong person to make the homemade tea. Not all homemade tea is created equal.
IKR! One of my SIL's (may she rest in the peace that she deserves after dealing with her kids) used to put so much sugar in her tea, 4 cups, that only her husband and her liked it. The rest of us would drink soda or (my preference) ice water. I'll make a gallon of green tea, unsweetened, for my husband. As I've gotten older (66 now), if I drink tea, I like it to be a cup of hot tea. Yes, I'm a truly born Southerner, born in Alabama, and raised just over the AL/FL line.
Nah they're just used to that overly sweet storebought garbage. Southeners standards are basically nonexistant from what I have gathered.
@@xPandamon Bless your heart.
Love this content! It's really the first I've seen of this type and they did really good. Matt is funny with bless your rank but I never agree with him lol
I can make an artificially sweetened iced tea that would even fool my Granny bless her soul. LOLOLOLOLOL
So. I’m from Washington state, recently moved to SC. My opinion, for what it’s worth…We have taste tested LOTS of sweet tea, because we love it, and haven’t had our blood sugar tested lately. 😅 So far, we do like Publix better than Milo’s. But the BEST sweet tea in our little town is from Metro Diner. It is amazing. Only get it on special occasions though ‘cause it’s 12.00 a gallon. 😯 We walked out one day with 2 gallons, looked at our bill and just about fainted. But it’s sooo good. Now we buy it when our northern friends come for a visit and we want them to taste good ‘ol southern deliciousness!
PS…someone….please put down your homemade grandma’s sweet tea recipe!! Thank you 🙏🏼
Miz Talia could cause a 9 car pileup, just by smiling at a stoplight.
great blind taste test... now all you need to do is pie!
Krogers sweet tea is my fave store bought. The decaf sweet tea with the blue top is so good
When make my home made tea semi strong, semi sweet. After few hours n next day it gets sweeter, semi strong cause time you put ice it makes just right. I love whataburger tea
I was told to drink more water. I said I do drink a lot of water... I just soak teabags in it first. Sadly, no more sugar for me, (pre-diabetic...thanx mom😒), so it's Truvia now.
This is what I need in my life. Not the news.
I can’t imagine drinking sweet tea from a gallon jug😂 My Granny is rolling over.
Either homemade or in dire emergencies, from a restaurant.
You get a pass for using Milo's though. Old recipe from a WW2 vet.
@@redclayscholar620 Was sweet tea a big part of the second world war?
Mcalister's Deli tea puts all of these to shame.
I drank that stuff by the bucketful in law school - half sweet/half unsweet, with a lemon's worth of lemon wedges in each cup. It's a wonder I still have any stomach left at all.
Heck I drink Dr Pepper almost exclusively and haven’t had a kidney stone yet. Anytime my kidneys start hurting I switch to cranberry juice for a week and then it’s back to the Doctor’s, so to speak lol
it's the high oxalate levels in the tea that can lead to kidney stones. same thing from green leafy veggies as someone on here mentioned spinach leading to stones.
Tea can give you kidney stones? awe hell man, now i gotta redo my diet plan again.
There's needs to be a whole episode on homemade sweet tea. Lol. I'll tell you what if you're using Lipton and boiling it, I ain't drinking it 🤣
I'm not living in the US right now and Lipton is all I can buy, but I don't boil it. I miss Luzianne. At least this Lipton Yellow Label is better than the normal Lipton.
@@kaldogorath have you tried using green tea and doing sweet tea with it. I ran out of tea yrs ago and decided to give it a try. Oh my goodness! It's sooo good. Mint julep is my favorite though. But it's hard to find. Makes the perfect summer tea though.
@@Oldfarmlady I don't really like green tea very much. If it's green tea with honey I can enjoy it but I much prefer black tea.
@@kaldogorath oh ya black tea is good to.
1. Milo’s
2. Publix’s
3. Chick-fil-A
Whoever made that homemade sweet tea should turn in THEIR Southern Card...lol
Luzianne tea is the best for homemade, and I like to add a mix of white sugar and brown sugar because I think the molasses gives the tea a nice touch.
For store-bought tea, Milo’s is hands down the best. As for fast food tea, Whataburger is great, as is Bush’s Chicken.
Red Diamond > Milo's
1/2 sweet and 1/2 unsweet tea from Taco Casa with lemon is wonderful as well. "They got that good ice." 😀
If you are doing a 1/2 & 1/2 tea, please pour the unsweet first.
Homemade - steep Luisianne, squeeze out tea bags into pot. While still warm add sugar to issolve, then dilute with fresh water. Water source needs to taste good too.
I'm not from the South. The first time I had sweet tea I thought my teeth were going to crumble. I like half and half tea from Chicken Express.
Lol. Love you guys. Been in the south for 20yrs now...still totally don't get the ubersweet tea thang. (May as well just cut to the chase and drink straight Karo syrup)
I always get half and half (unsweetened/ sweet)
Roflol. If southerners ranked some homemade tea last, then someone sure doesn't know how to make tea! Lol.
But Milo's and Red Diamond are pretty good picks if you're in a pinch for tea. When vacationing or traveling and I can't make my own, those are the two brands I look for.
And the Good Lord forbid and I do have to endure McDonald's, then I have to mix their syrup with the unsweetened vat. And do a half and half. Their tea is awful and will leave you even more thirsty than you were.
I think that's their pitch. I think they intended for it to make you feel thirstier.
I've never had Milo's cause I'm not in the south, but Red Diamond is pretty decent. I used to like Brisk but they changed it several years ago and it's not too good anymore.
Matt skipping Publix sweet tea on bless your rank has been rectified today. Talia calling it Mickey D's was depressing, but instantly correcting herself brought back my home for human kind
We needed a post-credit scene of Liz reacting to the rankings TBH
Question every southern does not want to hear, "Who made this tea?"
Adam is so right. One kidney stone per lifetime is way more than enough. It also taught me to drink LOTS of water every day to keep the whole system flushed.
I grew up in the south and my parents and grandparents were from the south -but we never had sweet tea. I learned early to ask if I was at someone's house before taking a swig -the sweet can be really really sugary
Ooof, she barely took a sip and was immediately like “Oh, that’s definitely McDonalds”
There is 49 grams of sugar in a large McDonald's sweet tea
I used to love their tea and would drink it all the time
Then well now I can't
So I get unsweetened
Which is the saddest way to drink tea :(
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE me some Milo's. I drink an whole gallon in about a day or two because I can't leave it alone. xP
Matt is sittin' this one out, after the torture, he went through last time
My homemade tea is the BEST ... just ask any of my family and friends!
My blood sugar went up just watchin' y'all. I want to know who come to collect your "southern card " if you're unwilling to give it up ?