As someone from the southern US who moved to New England, can confirm, the tea up here is very hit or miss unless one makes it oneself. I once got some “sweet tea” at a restaurant that tasted spicy instead of sweet somehow, no idea how one messes it up such as to get that to happen. Half the time its been so sour it tastes like they just dumped tea bags in lemonade.
As someone from the southern US who moved to New England, can confirm, the tea up here is very hit or miss unless one makes it oneself. I once got some “sweet tea” at a restaurant that tasted spicy instead of sweet somehow, no idea how one messes it up such as to get that to happen. Half the time its been so sour it tastes like they just dumped tea bags in lemonade.
Oof. Sounds like that “Gold Peak dispenser that hasn’t been cleaned in 3 years” type of tea
Bottled gold peak with real sugar is the closest taste to “real” southern style sweet tea, that I have found.