Airlines that serve iced tea?
Aug 21, 2016, 10:13 pm
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Don't forget you can also ask for club soda or seltzer water as a non-sugar beverage option. The club soda which Southwest usually gives is rough but I have gotten seltzer on Alaska every time I asked.
Don't go looking for unsweetened iced tea at McDonalds in Canada, or Hong Kong, or Macau, either... you won't find it.
Don't go looking for unsweetened iced tea at McDonalds in Canada, or Hong Kong, or Macau, either... you won't find it.
Aug 22, 2016, 1:09 pm
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Aug 24, 2016, 7:48 am
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My husband routinely persuades flight attendants to make iced tea for him. Non American FAs are often unfamiliar with the beverage so he carefully asks:
1) Make a hot cup of tea
2) Let it cool a bit
3) pour it over a glass of ice
4) Do not put milk in it
In almost all cases they kindly comply. Sometimes they will bring all the things to make it to him; more often they make it in the galley.
JAL F has an extremely high end iced tea. I think they only have one bottle per flight. No one else was drinking it, and he happily consumed it all.
1) Make a hot cup of tea
2) Let it cool a bit
3) pour it over a glass of ice
4) Do not put milk in it
In almost all cases they kindly comply. Sometimes they will bring all the things to make it to him; more often they make it in the galley.
JAL F has an extremely high end iced tea. I think they only have one bottle per flight. No one else was drinking it, and he happily consumed it all.
Aug 25, 2016, 9:12 pm
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Aug 26, 2016, 7:03 pm
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I agree. The best non-carbnonated airline beverage that is healthy for you is tomato juice or bloody mary mix (without vodka). Why not try that and get the benefit of vitamin C and other nutrients without added sugar? I have never understood why so few people drink tomato juice on aircraft. Water is fine as well but has no flavor or nutrients.
I'm a big fan of unsweetened iced tea, it just a shame that it is so difficult to find outside the USA.
Aug 27, 2016, 9:01 pm
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Definitely not. Real iced tea, which is made from actual tea leaves and water heated to the correct temperature, is fairly good for you. No sugar, no sodium, no fat, and depending on the type of tea, some level of antioxidants. We consume copious quantities of it here.
I don't drink the stuff that comes in cans. For one thing, the main flavor is can, not tea. Then there are all the polysyllabic ingredients that bear no connection to either "tea" or "water". Genuine cane sugar is fine, but artificial sweetners - No Thanks.
Being just a rare visitor to F, I have learned to do without iced tea while flying.
I don't drink the stuff that comes in cans. For one thing, the main flavor is can, not tea. Then there are all the polysyllabic ingredients that bear no connection to either "tea" or "water". Genuine cane sugar is fine, but artificial sweetners - No Thanks.
Being just a rare visitor to F, I have learned to do without iced tea while flying.
Aug 27, 2016, 9:40 pm
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What's the opposite of addictive? Repellant? That's how I feel about the high chemical stuff masquerading as iced tea.
And, actually, the good stuff is addictive.
You get used to drinking premium teas and there's no going back.
And, actually, the good stuff is addictive.
You get used to drinking premium teas and there's no going back.
Aug 28, 2016, 1:09 am
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Historically, Europeans would drink ice tea, not iced tea. They are very different in taste, sugar amount and sugar type. Sure in recent times, iced tea gained popularity and traction but as stable food on a Euro carrier?
Aug 28, 2016, 10:27 am
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I like tomato juice also, but have you ever looked at the sodium content of that stuff? It scares me and I have no need for a sodium restricted diet. At least not yet, anyway.
I'm a big fan of unsweetened iced tea, it just a shame that it is so difficult to find outside the USA.
I'm a big fan of unsweetened iced tea, it just a shame that it is so difficult to find outside the USA.
You're right about iced tea, and for me only the fresh brewed traditional version works. Sweetened? I can only think of a single acceptable variant...Made as my grandmother taught me, and still applicable....Coarse black tea in the pot, near-boiling water, steeped for a while 'til cool, then poured over plenty of ice (w/extra on hand) into large glasses in which a modest spoon of sugar has been muddled with fresh mint and a generous curl of lemon peel.
There's a grand excuse for an outdoor faucet which drips. It's the mint bed just below. In hot climates, the condensate drain from the AC serves well, but dry winters can damage next year's crop.
Aug 28, 2016, 11:55 am
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This is very true in my World view. This is why I am surprised to read in the OP that AF wold offer it voluntarily.
Historically, Europeans would drink ice tea, not iced tea. They are very different in taste, sugar amount and sugar type. Sure in recent times, iced tea gained popularity and traction but as stable food on a Euro carrier?
Historically, Europeans would drink ice tea, not iced tea. They are very different in taste, sugar amount and sugar type. Sure in recent times, iced tea gained popularity and traction but as stable food on a Euro carrier?
Aug 29, 2016, 8:51 am
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This is very true in my World view. This is why I am surprised to read in the OP that AF wold offer it voluntarily.
Historically, Europeans would drink ice tea, not iced tea. They are very different in taste, sugar amount and sugar type. Sure in recent times, iced tea gained popularity and traction but as stable food on a Euro carrier?
Historically, Europeans would drink ice tea, not iced tea. They are very different in taste, sugar amount and sugar type. Sure in recent times, iced tea gained popularity and traction but as stable food on a Euro carrier?
Across the semi-civilized belt of the South, even beyond the Permian Pasin and up on the Caprock (and in some California enclaves settled by Okies et al), at home or in dining establishments, one calls for "Izetee", and hopes that the server responds "sweetened or unsweetened?"
Why, in Jawja, I've known folks who adulterated it with a dose of Moonshine.
Aug 29, 2016, 10:20 am
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Lufthansa (at least in J) served bottled Nestea Iced Tea that was delicious. From what I remember, there wasn't any High Fructose Corn Syrup and I think most (if not all) of the ingredients were natural, unlike the American version of bottled/canned iced teas.
Aug 29, 2016, 1:45 pm
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At near 77, having spent most of my life in venues in which ice/iced tea is offered at brunch, lunch, dinner, "tea time", supper, and often on hand for breakfast, your claim that there's some formulary difference between "ice" tea and "iced" tea can best be described as male bovine excrement.
Across the semi-civilized belt of the South..
Across the semi-civilized belt of the South..
See e.g. post #44 .