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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 147 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But sugar dissolves in cold water. It just takes a bit longer. This is 9th grade chemistry. At 20°C 203.9g sugar are soluble per 100ml of water.

[Edit: Sorry, for the Americans here: At 68°F, 1 cup of sugar is soluble in 21/50 cups of water.]

Wikipedia (de): Zucker cites Hans-Albert Kurzhals: Lexikon Lebensmitteltechnik. Volume 2: L – Z. Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-973-7, p. 723.

[-] risottinopazzesco@feddit.it 56 points 2 years ago

And most of all, solubility being a function of the temperature, if you lower it the excess sugar will leave the solution and cristallize.

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[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

Have you seen how much sugar those hicks put into their tea though? It's gotta be hot because they put coca cola grade amounts of sugar, to the point where it wont dissolve in the water anymore. Sweet tea contains 36-38 grams of sugar per 16 oz. That's a fucking soft drink.

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[-] ares35@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

example: you don't make a pitcher of kool-aid with hot water.

however, adding sugar to the hot tea does work better than adding it after it's already chilled.

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[-] d0n7panic@lemm.ee 107 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well that explains the diabeetus.

[-] JollyG@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago

That is really just a map of poverty.

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[-] psud@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Sugar should be heavily taxed, it's so dangerous at rates of more than 10 grams a day

[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

It should be taxed on the corporate side. Taxing sugar on the consumer side becomes a poor tax, because poor people will still want sweets from time to time, making those treats now more and more expensive. Well off people will just accept the tax because it's marginal to them, but when your chocolate bar that you treat yourself to once a week goes from 1.29 to 3.29, then it really fucks your day up.

What should be done is incentives to provide less sugar/glucose-fructose on the product side and encourage companies to make snacks and beverages that have less sugar content.

[-] enragedchowder@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

It doesn’t make a difference which side you tax. If consumers are taxed then corporations will still feel it through reduced demand for their product. If corporations are taxed, consumers will still feel it through increased prices. The tax burden does not depend on who is taxed, but rather how elastic supply and demand are.

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[-] MildPudding@lemmy.world 92 points 2 years ago

i hate when i go down south and go to restaurants and order iced tea and get a glass of concentrated sugar water

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

diabetus by L Ron Hubbard

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 77 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is now getting reposts. We've reached critical mass!

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

I don't see the point of having reposts here, not like there's visible karma or anything.

Also, I loved you in that thing!

[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

Reposts aren't just because of karma whoring. It can be a crosspost or someone saw it and just thought it was funny and wanted to share it to a community they liked.

You may also be one of the first 10,000 today too.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

Or simply because not everyone sees every single post and knows it's a repost...

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Do you not know of the internet repost database? It's a repository of all posts ever made to every website. You're supposed to go to it every time you want to post something.

It's over here... In my basement. It also has cookies.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

So you’re saying you want me to come over to your basement, eat cookies and browse memes? I’m in.

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[-] remotelove@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

Well, it's the gays or atheists. Or "colored" people. Or whoever they are told to hate at that moment. This happens more than you know in this day and age:

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 31 points 2 years ago

Surprised you forgot "people who might be transgender (wE cAn AlWaYs TeLl)"

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Of course they can tell, how else are they going to pick their preferred partners to cheat on their wives with.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 19 points 2 years ago

I'm preemptively not serving gardeners or lawyers just to stay ahead of the curve.

[-] Gilles_D@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago

I play tennis and don’t serve against gay people. They make me feel funny with their passionate moaning. /s

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[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

This seems like a US thing I’m too European to understand

(aka. they bring us the ingredients, and we make our own tea at the restaurant table)

[-] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago

What's called sweet tea in the US is overwhelmingly sweet. That was my reaction to it the first time I tried it. It's so sweet, the only way you can get that much sugar in it is if you dissolve that sugar in hot tea.

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[-] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 23 points 2 years ago

If I order a cup of tea, I don't want to get a cup of hot water and a tea bag. Bloody continentals.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah in the US they have this thing called sweet tea (some places have a choice between sweet and unsweetened tea).

To make sweet tea they just unload a tanker truck full of gum syrup into cold tea. That's what it tastes like to me.

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[-] Souroak@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 2 years ago

As a server, southerners stare at me in wide eyed awe when I pour a disgusting amount of simple syrup into a glass of iced tea.

[-] Pokethat@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

What do they think they do at the factory?

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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"four seasons-having piece of shit" lol I'm going to start discriminating against people based on their seasons.

"Everybody is welcome at my house!... as long as you've experienced snow, that is"

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Damn, I knew sugar was bad for you, but boy it looks like it can make you really irritable. Stop drinking so much sugar y'all. It's nasty.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 2 years ago

That's OK. I don't eat 'em.

[-] MrCrankyBastard@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Perhaps the real tea is the shitposts we made along the way.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

Sweet tea is fucking disgusting and anyone who drinks that shit ought to be ashamed of themselves.

[-] Mefek@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

I mean it would be inconvenient but they would still dissolve, they aren't super saturating sweetened tea in the south.

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[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Maybe the amount of sugar that cold water easily accepts is the correct amount to not taste like shit

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[-] raptir@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Also are we going to talk about the fact that I've never heard anyone outside of the south pronounce pecan as "pee-can?"

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[-] rjthyen@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

And I hate when they have only sweet tea...

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's mostly water?

I don't have to heat up lemonade to make the sugar dissolve in it; why would tea be different?

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[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

the correct response to somebody trying to order sweet tea in the north is and always has been this quote from 30 rock:

“I'm gonna come back in 5 minutes, if you try to order off menu again I will slap those glasses off your face.”

[-] m625@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Sweet tea is trash anyway. Might as well just dump sugar into the water and drink it why even have the tea in it at all

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[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I kinda like the sugar at the bottom, but I'm a degenerate like that. (I've mostly excised my sweet tooth now. My dad is in his 50s and almost died from diabetic shock, with no knowledge of his condition)

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