Sweet tea, iced and flavored with spearmint, is a summer tradition in the Southern United States.

Sweet tea is a style of iced tea commonly consumed in the United States, especially the Southern United States.

Sweet tea is made by adding sugar to bags of black tea brewing in hot water while the mixture is still hot.

Sweet tea can also be made with a simple syrup and is sometimes tempered with baking soda to reduce the acidity of the tea's tannins.

Sweet tea is typically brewed with a lower carbohydrate and calorie content than most fruit juices and sugary sodas, but it is not unusual to occasionally find sweet tea with a sugar level as high as 22 brix ( percent weight sucrose in water ), twice that of Coca Cola.

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The possible new flavors for 2013 include Sweet tea, Ginger ale, Apple cider, and Raspberry Lemonade

A drink closely associated with the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the southern U. S. Sweet bourbon punch is made with sweet tea ( a southern signature drink ), citrus flavors, and bourbon.

Health food and some other specialty stores often carry a different set of iced tea bottlers which may include Tazo, Sweet Leaf Tea, various U. S. brands of the Japanese green tea giant Ito En, and other small companies.

Sweet tea is tea that is brewed very strong with a large amount of sugar added while the tea is still hot.

Sweet tea is traditionally the most common variety of iced tea in the South ; elsewhere, unsweetened iced tea is more common, although there has been a growing trend of offering both sweetened and plain since the early 2000s.

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Sweet tea, beer, and soft drinks are often served.

Lemonade combined with iced tea is also sold without the Arnold Palmer name by other companies, such as Lipton Brisk, Country Time, Sweet Leafand Snapple.

In China, Osmanthus tea () is produced by combining dried Sweet Osmanthus ( Osmanthus fragrans ) flowers () with black or green tea leaves in much the same manner the more familiar jasmine tea combines jasmine flowers with tea leaves.

In 1945, the first formal women's barbershop organization, Sweet Adelines, was formed.

His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

That move was hinted at in their 1976 Top Ten hits " Sweet Love " and " Just to Be Close to You.

The first single, " Only Time ", was used in the film Sweet November and received U. S. radio airplay in late 2000.

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

Independent production usually meant restricted circumstances, but not always — Sweet Smell of Success, for instance, despite the original plans of the production team, was clearly not made on the cheap, though like many other cherished A-budget noirs it might be said to have a B-movie soul.

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam had a style that was less electro and more pop, and paved the way for artists such as Corina, Stevie B, George Lamond, Sweet Sensation and the Cover Girls to cross over into the pop market.

Nights of Cabiria was adapted as the Broadway musical Sweet Charity and the movie Sweet Charity ( 1969 ) by Bob Fosse starring Shirley MacLaine.

) It is assumed that the three-part song Sweet tyranness, I now resign was written by him as a child.

Loach opposes censorship in cinema and was outraged at the " 18 " certificate given to Sweet Sixteen.

Mötley Crüe has been featured on a number of VH1 countdown shows, " Dr. Feelgood " was ranked the No. 7 Greatest Air Guitar Song, " Live Wire " was ranked the No. 17 Greatest Metal Song Of All Time, and " Home Sweet Home " was ranked the No. 12 Greatest Power Ballad Of All Time.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Finally, in 1879, after two years ' negotiating by Sweet, Furnivall, and Murray, the OUP agreed to publish the dictionary and to pay the editor, Murray, who was also the Philological Society president.

Robyn completed a short US tour to promote Robyn, and was the supporting act for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour at select European dates in 2008.

It was re-released in 1999, with a bonus track, Crow's cover of the Guns N ' Roses song " Sweet Child o ' Mine ," which was included on the soundtrack of the film Big Daddy.

* Sweet Honey in the Rock's 1981 album, Good News, contains tracks titled " Biko " and " Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto ", which compares Biko's death to that of Chilean musician Victor Jara and was covered by Billy Bragg in 1992.

He was a member of The Low And Sweet Orchestra and later the Cranky George Trio.

Suite XVI, the follow-up album to Norfolk Coast, was released in September 2006 ( the title is a pun on " Sweet 16 " and also a reference to the fact that it was the band's sixteenth studio album ) and continued the band's resurgence.

Foster met Elizabeth ( Lisa ) Braden during his sophomore year at Davidson ; she was the daughter of an insurance broker from Nashville and was attending Sweet Briar College.

In 2010, Peaches and backing band Sweet Machine once again toured Australia performing at the sold out Big Day Out festivals and at a series of sideshows.

* Made in Allen County, features the common products that were once developed in the area at the turn of the 19th to 20th century ; items include boxes of cigars, Bursley ’ s Coffee, Mar-velo ’ s water softener and a soap saver, Seald Sweet juicer, Lady Wayne Chocolates, Seyfert ’ s potato chips, and Crystal Bottling Works soda pop.

Shortly afterwards, Sweet is finally released and has Carl once again help him restore Grove Street.

Nicky Wire once posted a list on the Manic's official Twitter where he ranked Love's Sweet Exile as their best video.

Underdog knew it would be impossible for him to stop tornados, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and many other natural disasters all at once, and even if Simon spotted Underdog nearing the Moon, he would press all the keys on the Weather Machine and destroy the Earth, with Sweet Polly, too.

Horizon League teams have advanced to the Sweet Sixteen five of the last nine years ( Butler four times, Milwaukee once ), which exceeds all but one non-BCS conference.

If Love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment? If a Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content? Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain, Or grieve at my Fate, when I know ' tis in vain? Yet so pleasing the Pain is, so soft is the Dart, That at once it both wounds me, and Tickles my Heart.

Miss Sweet claimed that she had been a longtime mistress of Father Divine who was then ' shunt aside ' after falling from favor once Divine met and fell in love with the newest addition to his secretarial staff, the 21-year-old Canadian convert Edna Rose Ritchings, known to the followers as " Sweet Angel ".

As a head coach, Amaker took Seton Hall to the NCAA tournament once ( 2000 ) – when his team reached the " Sweet Sixteen " ( third round ) – and to the National Invitation Tournament three times ( 1998, 1999 and 2001 ).

Paul D, one of the slaves from Sweet Home, the plantation where Baby Suggs, Sethe, Halle, he, and many other slaves once worked, arrives at 124.

The stadium has also been host to several concerts most notably the 1969 Rock ' n Roll Revival Concert, which Rolling Stone once called the second most important event in rock & roll history and resulted in a documentary movie, Sweet Toronto, and John Lennon's Live Peace In Toronto album.

* Dixie Carter once sang an inebriated version of " Sweet Georgia Brown " in an episode of Designing Women.

Daisuke usually says " My Sweet Honey " when referring to Maiko ; he once scares her when his pants undo itself in front of her as he tries to cheer her up while Reiji is away on a quest to face Shinsaber.

Sweet Savage was once again reformed in the 90's due to Metallica covering their song ' Killing Time ' as a B side for their The Unforgiven single.

He has currently joined Gwen once again on The Sweet Escape Tour in 2007.

During his tenure at Dayton, Donoher guided the Flyers to the NCAA tournament eight times, reaching the Sweet Sixteen five times, the Elite Eight twice, and the national final once.