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While coffee is by far more popular, hot brewed black tea is enjoyed both with meals and as a refreshment by much of the population.

Similarly, iced tea is consumed throughout.

In the Southern states sweet tea, sweetened with large amounts of sugar or an artificial sweetener and chilled, is the fashion.

Outside the South, sweet tea is sometimes found, but primarily because of cultural migration and commercialization.