Should have been a blind taste test and cleansing you palate in between with some of them lil smokies cooked in sweet baby rays bbq sauce and grape jelly
Yes, you CAN grow it! “The United States is the second largest importer of tea, with a market value at $13.1 billion in 2021, according to the Tea Association of the U.S.A Inc. The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, can be grown in many areas of North America, especially the southeastern region of the U.S.” So if you happen to live in the south, or at least in Zone 8 growing zone, you should be able to grow this small tree. Make your own green, black, and white tea leaves.
As your "1 Kiwi (New Zealand) Viewer" even less advertisers ship to us, they might go to Oz but we're just too far. N just to make things confusing I'm also a part Southern, my mother was a Southern girl & I spent min 2wks in TX every yr til age 19. But sorry never got into sweet tea, BBQ tho, love blowing taste buds here w/my TX BBQ!
After Hurricane Katrina, the Luzianne company kept all employees on payroll & told them to take care of their families & neighbors; come to work when you can. Seems like they have their priorities straight.
There is something to be said for the integrity of a company. I agree with that. Supporting ones that consider their employees and end users a priority is the only way to get rid of the ones interested only in making a buck.
Mmmm...I am the one hogging the sugar syrup (I wish we'd get that up north) or the flavored coffee creamer at the restaurant. I like my drinks to be exactly like sorbet or ice cream before the freezer lol. I actually had trouble making freezer sorbet because I kept drinking the recipe before I froze it (note to self: when it's not -9F, make sorbet again). I finally stopped pretending & just bought straight up Karo to sweeten my drinks at home.
My grandmother (mom's mom) hands down made the world's most exquisite ice tea. She was born in the 1890s, raised 12 children, lived in extreme poverty, was uneducated & was the sweetest tiny woman. I don't know the brand of tea she used, but it was always loose leaf & was the most aromatic tea I've ever had the pleasure to experience. I miss you, Granny Beam.
If you use loose tea, it will taste better. Teabags are made from the broken leaves, which are never the same. I drink hot tea in the morning and iced tea at lunch. It’s all loose tea and it tastes much better.
As a kid in the northeast, we were given the 4C powder mix to scoop into a pitcher of water. Can't believe Child Protective Services didn't take us away. Now as a southerner, I brew my own and am largely recovered from past tea trauma.
Fancy people and y'all's glass mason jars. We drank tea from a plastic gas station cup. Unless it was a special occasion and we got out the K-Mart glassware.
I'm 62 y/o and learned how to make good sweet tea from my Granny in KY. Nothing fancy, no special pot or timing how long it should steep but it always tasted like one of her hugs.....sweet and full bodied. I remember teabags steeping in a small saucepan on the stovetop. No matter the brand you use, the secret ingredient needed is love.
I remember my Grandma Goldie in Paragould Arkansas making the best sweet tea on the planet, when I was a child. She stirred it up with a sauce pan and lots of love. 😂
I grew up on Lipton. A few years ago I spent time trying a bunch of the ones you did (Publix, Tetley, Luzianne, Red Diamond and Great Value) Luzianne was by far my favorite and is all we use now
Yes, Luzianne,tastes much better! I never cared for Lipton because, especially their instant powder tends to be overly caffeinated! I switched to Luzianne when, they quit making the Nestle tea bags, because, I had it from time to time even as a child. Course,I like Splendia in my iced tea with Lemon, for me, I put 2 or 3 lemon slices in my glass, to me, I think it’s the right ratio of sweetness balanced with the right amount of citrus/ lemon.
My wife and I stopped at a diner in Minnesota several years ago. When the waitress asked what we wanted to drink, I saw tea on the menu. I asked her if they had sweet tea. She said yes, then added "its blackberry flavored". Being a good traditional southerner, I almost had a seizure. 😂😂
The whole "you ever pack a lip full of tea" thing you said seriously unlocked some forgotten childhood memories. As kids my cousin and I would take pawpaws old skoal cans and fill them with tea, sugar and a little water. We spent a summer rubbin sweet tea. Almost got me in trouble, until I made my dad taste it. Lol
😄💗 that is awesome! I am a northerner so give me some grace BUT I used to take my dad's freeze dried unsweetened iced tea powder and shove the crystals in one cheek and let them melt.
@@living4mylord no judgment here, my dad always preferred unsweet, so I grew up drinking/enjoying both. I'm not really southern anyway, but I'm very Appalachian and there are a lot of cultural similarities.
Old tooth abcess treatment: put a teabag(lightly hit it with some water first) next to the abcess, it will drain it and help the pain stop until you can get to a dentist.
49 year old GA guy here. My folks’ tea was loved by my whole family, and even friends in the neighborhood and later, friends from high school. Even yankee friends thought my parents’ tea was the greatest cold drink ever. The secret was…..I don’t know. As I grew up they used Luzianne, except when they were using Tetley, except when they bought Lipton….or when they used a generic brand from Big Star, or Kroger or Wal-Mart or Ingles….so….yeah. I learned it’s so much more about how you ignore the instructions and do your own thing in the prep and an amount of sugar you’re confident about. 🙂 (One of those things my folks often did would be to double or nearly so the amount of bags recommended for such-n-such an amount. Also a lil more than a cup of sugar per gallon. Heh)
Man, I'm so glad you went solo and got a production team that actually produces. You shine a lot better. My neighbor as a kid in nearby Villa Rica, GA, made the best sweet tea I ever had. She sun baked it in a big glass thing, she used Lipton.
Yeah, I always kinda laugh when I see people follow the directions for brewing tea. It's done when it's done. Can't rush perfection. Tastes like water? Didn't brew it long enough! :D
It's my favorite. My daughter has to have decaff and theirs is excellent. A few years ago our Sams was going to stop selling it (started back selling it 2 years later) and I bought enough of their big boxes to last 2-3 years for about $5 a box.
As a Southerner, your videos are tickling me so much! And isn't there just something about the sound of a glass of iced tea that makes you feel at home? That clinky clack as the ice swirls in a mason jar... perfection. I grew up with Lipton, but don't necessarily have any brand loyalty to it. I actually switched to Publix because it was cheaper and liked it better. Now I actually do a blend. I mix a peach tea I bought online with the Publix tea because by itself, the peach tea tends to be a somewhat bitter. I experimented until I got the perfect blend. Oh, and here's a tip to mellow any bitterness in tea and bring out the flavor. Put just a pinch of salt in it. Be VERY sparing if you're just making an individual serving as you can easily add too much. I make my tea a gallon at a time and use a sprinkling of salt in it. It really enhances the flavors in the tea without making it taste salty.
My mama used to make tea so strong it could eat a hole in the glass! It was sippin’ tea. You sipped it until the ice melted, kind of watering it down. By the time your Mason jar was at almost half, it was perfect! ❤
After 21 years with my husband in the Air Force and being stationed all over, I have tried a lot of teas. We got cheap stuff when times were lean, and pricier brands when we could afford it. After trying many different brands, I can say with complete confidence, Luzianne is the best. Trust me. I've tried many tea brands.
You picked the right one to be #1! 😊 There is a tea plantation outside of Charleston, SC. They will take you on a tour from showing the plants to how they produced the tea. All the places to see around there and we enjoyed the tea plantation the most 😂
Is Charleston still "Little Mexico"? Last time I was there, years ago, it was wall to wall! Is Charlestown Landing still open? I miss my home, but it ain't home, anymore!😢😢
It's pretty cool. I've been before. The facility and grounds tour was pretty cool, and they gave us as much brrwed tea as we wanted for the time we were there. And it was a pretty drive to the plantation too.
Luzianne was the only tea we made growing up. I refuse to make any other brand and now I'm in charge and expected to make enough tea for all at any party or gathering. That and deviled eggs, lol. With great power comes great responsibility 😂
Fun fact: Lipton is actually a British tea! Shoulda used the Tetley bit for Lipton instead. My dad grew up on Lipton sweet tea as a young boy in west Texas. (My mom was technically born in Chicago but they moved back to the south before she was 3. While she didn't get that instant iced tea knowledge that comes from being born in southern lands, she did learn early. She just doesn't have that instant emotional connection to the tea that tell us southerners exactly how much sugar the tea needs; she's gotta add extra sugar a couple times first.) When he was a young man, he kept drinking Lipton sweet tea even when he worked oversea in Europe. When he met my mom, he was still drinking Lipton sweet tea. When I was around 7, he took a job out in Louisiana and his doctor told him that he had to cut out the sweet tea for his health. He could drink the tea, just not sweet. My dad fessed up that he couldn't do unsweet tea and didn't know how anyone did it. His doctor asked what brand it was and my dad told him Lipton. The doctor was this real, salt of the earth Louisiana Cajun man. Like, forget LSU because this man's office was ULL Rajun' Cajun red everything. Walking into that man's office is like a core memory of mine and is one of the many things that fostered a deep love for Louisiana. He said there was the problem: he needed to get some Luzianne tea. In fact, it was so imperative that my dad stop drinking not just sweet tea but, ugh, Lipton, that the doctor wrote him an actual paper prescription for Luzianne iced tea. He used to have that prescription framed in the kitchen at his Louisiana apartment. We only had Luzianne iced tea from there on out, even when he moved back to Texas. It was the only unsweet tea that he liked and ya know what, he lived another 20 years after that. He did switch back to sweet tea in his last years because at that point, the other stuff would get him before the sweet tea could. I'd love to find that old prescription if he kept it but my mom and I are still going through boxes of his old stuff, 2 years after he passed. The man kept everything "just in case" so it's probably there somewhere. Moral of the story: Matt, if anyone gives you a hard time for liking Luzianne tea the most, tell them that it's been prescribed by doctors before! Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I need to pick up a fresh box of Luzianne tea later. My dad would've turned 85 tomorrow and I think some fresh Luzianne sweet iced tea would be perfect, doubly so with this heat.
I am a tea snob, I confess. Born and raised in the south, but now living in Alaska, I have to make my own ice tea because no person or restaurant up here can make it correctly. I much prefer Luzianne to any other brand and I cold brew it rather than steep it. I put four quart-size bags into a liter of water and let it sit overnight. By morning, it’s perfect tea. It’s smooth, dark, but not bitter. Yes, four quart bags per liter is more costly than steeping it, because you get far less tea per bag, but it is still FAR cheaper than soda or bottled water even.
My grandmother made tea this way sometimes. I'd forgotten but will try it myself! Btw, I'm so jealous. My tip item on my bucket list is to visit Alaska and hopefully see the northern lights at some point. This heat and humidity is for the birds! I think I could trade it in for shoveling snow. 😂
I lived in bush alaska for 7 years and had to make my own southern iced tea as well. We went through a gallon every other day, but it was so necessary. (I was surrounded by pepsi drinkers🤮)
I bought Milo's tea at Walmart, in Pahrump, Nevada, and Milo's and Red Diamond were at a Walmart in Colorado. I'm glad to see our southern brands spreading out.
The best sweet tea I've ever had was Community Tea out of Louisiana and it was brewed outside in the Sun. You can't go wrong with Sun Tea...it has so much flavor
I live in Michigan but had work in Athens Georgia for six months and we ate lunch at this soulfood restaurant everyday and the sweet tea there was the best sweet tea I've ever had in my life. I've tried to replicate it at home and haven't come close to how good that tea was, food was great too.
Just FYI, but the "Tea plant" is a bush like shrub. Tea bushes grow in zones 7, 8, and 9. It can grow in the US, but is mostly a niche market. (Apparently it can be grown in containers on a porch. Most of the world's tea production is in China and India. I suspect that's the case for the teas you're drinking today.
im a southern woman from east texas. i can NOT live without my sweet tea. i laughed so hard watching this video. its been a hot day today and you helped cheer me up. thank you!
Back when Sam’s sold it, we got Lipton family sized bags and made sweet tea. Then due to life changes, we’ve gone to unsweetened. And found the sugar covered up how bad Lipton actually is. We started getting Publix gallon unsweetened which is actually pretty good, but it’s no Milo’s. As prices keep going up, we bought an electric tea maker and we’ve been using Louisiana which is great tea. But much to my chagrin; I’m risking your recommendation and bought a 3 pack of 24 family bags of the New Orleans Roast from Amazon.
As a career senior editor of 29 years, these “Bless Your Rank” segments are beautifully edited. This is a perfect example. Kudos to you whoever edited this 👍🏼
Luzianne used to be my favorite growing up. But then all the stores around here switched to only carrying the “Iced Tea” version and it sucks. I just assumed they quit making the other version. And after going through every possible tea on the shelf, I realized that all of the boxes marked as “iced tea” are pitiful excuses for good Southern Sweet Tea. But the same brands that are not labeled as such make superior versions of sweet tea than the “iced tea”counterpart. The “iced tea” versions sour way too quickly for my liking and they don’t have near enough flavor.
Pretty sure that's the point. If you're buying a box that says "Iced tea" on it you deserve to get bags full of dirt. It's tea. "Iced" is not a type of tea leaf. So if you don't know what type you want to make your tea, you probably will be fine with whatever tea dust gets swept off the floor and put in to the "iced tea" bags.
I think I have watched every "bless your rank" Matt has ever done, and this is the absolute funniest of all. I would have guessed Little Debbie or Girl Scout cookies would be funnier considering his affinity for the baked goods. But no, homemade sweet tea episode has no equal.
@@gabanjomanI think the bourbon was my favorite one also. Getting all fuzzy and his cheeks going red... Then has to go back and drink more to make sure he got it right. 😂🤣
So glad Luzianne won 😅 one summer my grandma made tea with it and i was hooked. Ive tried their regular,cold brew, and their green tea and they are all great.
Okay, just in case you read this and want to know, Matt, I will tell you some about tea and where it comes from. Short version: pretty much any Ceylon/Sri Lanka + Formosa/Taiwanese Oolong blended = very delicious. Something like 99.9% of all actual tea (not herbal, which is a tisane) comes from the Camellia Sinesis plant, which does have different varieties. Black, white, and green all just refer to how much the leaf is processed. And much like wine, where it's grown and with what variety drastically affects the taste. Most standard "black tea" or "iced tea" bags are gonna use a blend. China has eleventy gajillion different types of tea, I will not take up your whole day listing them. India is mostly known for Assam and Darjeeling. One of my two favorites is Sri Lanka/Ceylon tea, which taste different depending on which area of the country it was grown in. Some tea is grown in Africa, I see a lot of it coming from Kenya. There are many other countries that produce tea (a little bit is grown in South Carolina!), but most you'll find comes from China, India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya, with some green teas coming from Japan. Special shout out to Oolong, which is my other favorite, which largely comes from Taiwan and China and can, depending on its processing, lean more towards black tea or green tea. I find Taiwanese/Formosa oolong to be especially tasty and will blend it with a Ceylon tea for my iced tea.
I grew up on Cain's tea. My uncle worked for them most of his life so he always had some at home when my mom would go visit her sister during the summer. Something about her well water and that tea brings back so many good feelings of summers past. I tried it at home once with our city water and didnt taste the same.
Love your content, especially on SEC football. Luzianne and oddly enough Red Diamond are my fav’s. I’m from Deep South Ga and a trick to get more “tea” flavor out of any tea, bring water to boil, remove from heat, add tea bags and cover to let it steep for 10min then my grandfather used to add a pinch of baking soda and it really makes the tea flavor pop- then of course, sugar to taste. 😁👍
Matt ? I just gotta say it : I LOVE you! I sure hope they are paying you enough! And thanks to your wife, too for keeping the house so nice and clean for us, cause, lets face it -- I'm sure it is her or you have a maid or both. Another terrific rank video! Haha! LOL! Yes, I like Luzianne best too. It is just calm and comforting. Grew up on Lipton, though. And Publix overall is def. winning round here. They've topped out HarrisTeeter, and that is an accomplishment. Also, if you know how to shop at Publix, they aren't that expensive at all. I get better prices on things I buy repeatedly, and stock. That counts for a lot. And yes PUBLIX DELI TEA IN THE GALLON JUG is def worth going there, esp. if you need to take it somewhere. It is very good.
I think Matt was spot on with Luzianne, it's easily my favourite for ice tea. Luzianne also makes a very good hibiscus tea in family size bags. I like to do equal bags of both black and the hibiscus teas when I make my ice tea. If you like things a little tart it's worth trying.
@@neen42 This. If your sweet tea is too weak, use more bags, don't steep for longer. If I'm making sweet tea, I'll usually make a cup of hot tea (always sweetened to taste) and use that as a basis for how many bags I need to use for that particular brand.
If your teeth don't rattle like a box of tic tac shaken in a paint shaker and the diabetic person 30feet from you doesn't fall out in a diabetic coma... It's not sweet enough.
the beginning called me out so bad😂 when my friend and i moved into our new apartment at OU, both our moms gave us a jug of milo’s and 12 mason jars cause they knew we’d be too lazy to make our own sweet tea
I grew up with sweet tea made as a syrup from tea leaves, not tea bags. Add water and ice when ready to drink. It lasts longer and still tastes great. I grew up in Indiana but my ancestors were from the south.
Not only my moms ancestors but, my mom’s family is from as far south as you can go when, it comes to being from Indiana, my grandpa, I never met made the wheels for Horse Buggy’s!
If you're ever Indiana, try the home brewed sweet tea at Big Hoffa's in Westfield. You won't be disappointed. The BBQ is amazing also. Ranked #1 in Indiana and #3 in the nation.
Excellent ranking. I don’t sweeten my tea, and if you want to come for my Southern card about it, pack a lunch. Luzianne is also my traditional favorite, but pro tip on Lipton. They make a “cold brew” tea. I don’t recommend it for regular use, but if you’re traveling, especially “overseas” places like NYC or California, you’ll have tea. Just use double the amount of bags they suggest.
My grandmother made her tea with loose leaf Lipton’s. She threw a handful into a pot of boiling water with a pinch of baking soda and let it sit for 10 minutes or so. Then she strained the tea into a glass pitcher. For years she stirred in a cupful of sugar but later, when her doctor told her she was prediabetic, she switched to saccharine. She used the tiny little tablets that came in a tiny bottle. The used tea leaves were tossed into her garden to become next year’s tasty tomatoes.
Red rose makes the BEST sweet tea, it’s what my mom always made and I have an extensive collection of the little figurines that used to come in the boxes. 😊
Grew up drinking Lipton, but I switched to Luzianne when I saw the decaf iced tea bags at Walmart one day. Best decision I ever made, what a great iced tea!! Thanks Matt!!
I actually prefer orange pekoe black tea. The only brand I can find locally is the Piggly Wiggly store brand. I bring 6 small tea bags in 3 cups of water to a boil, then steep for about 15 minutes and add just over half a cup of sugar per quart. Yes, I squeeze the cooled tea bags to get all the flavor out.
I grew up in California and my mom used Lipton. I moved to Mobile, Alabama for 4 years and became a die hard Luzianne convert. It was impossible to find in Alaska where we moved next, so I bulk ordered it from Amazon. Now we’re in Texas and it’s tough to find Luzianne sometimes. I did a mini Bless Your Rank at home from what was available in my store and the HEB brand came out the winner of most like Luzianne. Not surprising because HEB brand everything is often as good if not better than the name brand.
The tea I grew up with was either Lipton or Red Rose tea, mostly Red Rose tea. And Mom's way of making it was to put ....a large handful of the individual teabags I'm not sure how many but I know a lot. And the Red Rose tea came with the little ceramic figurine. They no longer do this, it's very sad. I think the Red Rose ice tea has a more bitter tannic flavor but sometimes that's what you need.
My GG put 6 Red Rose bags in 2.5 cups of boiling water for 6 minutes. Don’t strain the bags too much. Add a half cup of sugar and the juice of half a lemon. Add enough water and ice to make a half gallon. That’s how an Iowa farm wife made it. She worked hard and lived to be 97 with NO DIABETES, so I don’t add more sugar, either.
My great grandma could teach you a thing about sweet tea. I was raised on Lipton, and she'd take a glass from a box of Wedding Oats (anyone remember those?), just slightly larger than your typical orange juice glass, and sweeten it with three (3!) teaspoons of sugar. Grandma liked tea syrup.
Speaking as a native Alabamian now residing in Georgia, this may be the most important ranking you've ever done. (Also, now I'm finally gonna open that bag of Y'all tea that I bought the last time I went to Alabama. I've refused to open it because the branding feels like a souvenir of home.)
growing up in New York (not the city), my mom always made sun tea every summer using Luzianne tea. As an adult, whenever I make tea for myself, it's always been Lipton, but I haven't really experimented with other brands
First of all, I consider myself the world's foremost authority on sweet iced tea. I've been consuming it at an alarming rate for 30+ years, I have mastered my own home brew, and taste tested every bottled/restaurant tea all over the U.S.A where available. In my opinion Luzianne is the best!
Thank you for the discovery of Luzianne tea! Absolutely delicious, smooth and not bitter! It's even delicious UNSWEETENED! Yes, you caught me, I'm a Yankee. I am an iced tea addict, no sweetener. Trader Joe's is often out of my lifeblood, unsweetened green and white tea in a jug, as they are now, sending me to my pantry to make my own. And I found this miracle which I bought on Amazon after enjoying this video some time ago. Love your humor! Thanks!
Lipton is what I used for YEARS to make my own home made sweet tea. Then I moved to Florida where the tap water tastes like a quarry so now I just buy like 4-6 Milo's jugs every other week.
Just starting the video but I would laugh my butt off if someone tried to sneak unsweet tea into the line up to get his reaction expecting sweet tea and tasting death
16:02 as one of the few hot tea drinkers in Alabama I feel called out. I'll have you know I put plenty of sugar, honey, a dash of lemon and a few peppermints in it before hand to save it. It's just really good on the throat when your sick. I'll admit it's definitely moreover a winter drink. I usually use Twining's Irish Breakfast.
I dont know if its available everywhere, but where i live, they have a brand called Aunt Bertie's, and its a sweet tea concentrate. Basically, its a thick syrup that your supposed to dilute in water.
10 Early grey tea with the peel from the apple pie apples boiled in the water. 1cup sugar. Zest a lemon in it and cut for the side. Distilled water ice
My southern grandma mixed Lipton and Luzianne for her perfect combination. I sadly did not get the correct combination of how many of each bag was used. I was clearly raised right though because I would take my bottle to her and she would put sweet tea in it for me.
Thanks for thinking of me, and your other viewer from Australia. We’ll definitely have a chat to the kangaroo (AKA QANTAS) about how to get that scent service here one day ✈️😊 P.S. Sweet tea isn’t really a thing here, but tea is popular and ice tea has its fans too. So, I’m sure we could make sweet tea work. It’ll be summer soon for us 🥵
Four liters of water in a glass jar, a metric handful of tea bags or loose leaf, cover it and let it sit out in the sun most of the day. Add two double handfuls of refined sugar (!) and stir well. Serve over ice in a canning jar. 🎉😊
Luzianne is personally the best, we make ours with 6 quart bags per gallon of distilled water, pure cane sugar and use Casco ice, stuff is perfect. You chug the first glass and sip the second.
I’m in NJ & like using Signature brand(Acme) regular black tea bags. I make a half gallon at a time🎉. And….my favorite Great Value item is the maple flavored bacon jerky. It’s one serving, don’t believe that other number😉. Stay awesome Matt!!!
By far the best tea, luzianne cold brew. I know it’s made with strange stuff to make it cold brew, but it’s just perfect. There is a floral essence that just adds to the tea. Try it and thank me later.
5:45 Lipton does IN FACT come from the Bankhead National Forest! Just stop by the Gateway Foodland in Double Springs. Its down the aisle just past the coffee...
I was raised on lipton both powder and tea bag and switched to luzianne. Though I really like HEB brand, It has a stronger tea flavor if you drink it without ice. I do that on hot days or after mowing the lawn and want something sweet and cold.
Matt, you ought to go to Charleston, SC tea plantation to pick you up some truly southern sweet tea and you'll know exactly where it comes from. Plus its such a beautiful place to take the family.
We grew up in MI making "sun tea" with Red Rose tea bags. I was hoping they were gonna be on your list. If you see it around down there, give it a try. 😊
I couldn’t even find Red Rose when we moved to Texas. That broke a family tradition of using my great-grandma’s recipe, exactly. I also lost my pitcher, and I couldn’t find a half-gallon pitcher in this state!
I grew up on Lipton tea hot and cold in the far north. However, about the time I moved to Florida, Lipton changed their tea blends and so I went exploring. I've used Luzianne ever since. I had to cut the sugar in half! I know Matt, what!! Still Luzianne tastes very good and is smooth.
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Wait, that's from New York. Maybe from ....New York City!
Should have been a blind taste test and cleansing you palate in between with some of them lil smokies cooked in sweet baby rays bbq sauce and grape jelly
Yes, you CAN grow it!
“The United States is the second largest importer of tea, with a market value at $13.1 billion in 2021, according to the Tea Association of the U.S.A Inc. The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, can be grown in many areas of North America, especially the southeastern region of the U.S.”
So if you happen to live in the south, or at least in Zone 8 growing zone, you should be able to grow this small tree. Make your own green, black, and white tea leaves.
As your "1 Kiwi (New Zealand) Viewer" even less advertisers ship to us, they might go to Oz but we're just too far.
N just to make things confusing I'm also a part Southern, my mother was a Southern girl & I spent min 2wks in TX every yr til age 19. But sorry never got into sweet tea, BBQ tho, love blowing taste buds here w/my TX BBQ!
Hey coach tough loss against the MN gophers in football tonight. I’m sure you’ll get that Nebraska program turned around soon. 😂👍
After Hurricane Katrina, the Luzianne company kept all employees on payroll & told them to take care of their families & neighbors; come to work when you can. Seems like they have their priorities straight.
Nearly 20 years later they’re still waiting on some of those folks to return to work. 😅
There is something to be said for the integrity of a company. I agree with that. Supporting ones that consider their employees and end users a priority is the only way to get rid of the ones interested only in making a buck.
Companies that take care of their people are worth supporting.
@@michiganjack1337those employees are still waiting for the American government to do what they said they would. 20 years later
Luzianne is the only bagged tea allowed in my home.
My dad liked his tea so sweet that you could turn it upside-down like a Dairy Queen Blizzard, and nothing would fall to the floor.
My man, that is a tea slushy.
Your dad liked sugar that tasted like tea.
Mmmm...I am the one hogging the sugar syrup (I wish we'd get that up north) or the flavored coffee creamer at the restaurant. I like my drinks to be exactly like sorbet or ice cream before the freezer lol. I actually had trouble making freezer sorbet because I kept drinking the recipe before I froze it (note to self: when it's not -9F, make sorbet again). I finally stopped pretending & just bought straight up Karo to sweeten my drinks at home.
If you don't have to chew your tea because of all the sugar, you're doing it wrong.
Excuuuuse me? Tetley is useless because it's made in Georgia? Screw yo Alabama ass.
My grandmother (mom's mom) hands down made the world's most exquisite ice tea. She was born in the 1890s, raised 12 children, lived in extreme poverty, was uneducated & was the sweetest tiny woman.
I don't know the brand of tea she used, but it was always loose leaf & was the most aromatic tea I've ever had the pleasure to experience.
I miss you, Granny Beam.
That sounds really good. GOD bless you. Jesus loves you so much.
That sounds like the most divine thing I've ever heard of in my life, holy moly.
If you use loose tea, it will taste better. Teabags are made from the broken leaves, which are never the same. I drink hot tea in the morning and iced tea at lunch. It’s all loose tea and it tastes much better.
Yeah loose leaf tea is usually gonna be better in general. You have a lot more control on how much you brew and the strength
Are you from NC?
The only name brand food item in our house, growing up as a poor kid in the south, was Luzianne
Luzianne is the best. Loved the way it smells when you take it out the microwave. Grew up on that too
Yesss! Luzianne was the wine we grew up on!
As a kid in the northeast, we were given the 4C powder mix to scoop into a pitcher of water. Can't believe Child Protective Services didn't take us away. Now as a southerner, I brew my own and am largely recovered from past tea trauma.
I’m just glad you’re using the appropriate vessel for sweet tea consumption.
Ma-SON jar for his Luzi-ON tea from Ca-JON CON-try.
Fancy people and y'all's glass mason jars. We drank tea from a plastic gas station cup. Unless it was a special occasion and we got out the K-Mart glassware.
@@NandR Now that Funny 🤣🤣🤣. Fine glassware from Kmart.
I'm 62 y/o and learned how to make good sweet tea from my Granny in KY.
Nothing fancy, no special pot or timing how long it should steep but it always tasted like one of her hugs.....sweet and full bodied.
I remember teabags steeping in a small saucepan on the stovetop. No matter the brand you use, the secret ingredient needed is love.
I remember my Grandma Goldie in Paragould Arkansas making the best sweet tea on the planet, when I was a child. She stirred it up with a sauce pan and lots of love. 😂
I grew up on Lipton. A few years ago I spent time trying a bunch of the ones you did (Publix, Tetley, Luzianne, Red Diamond and Great Value) Luzianne was by far my favorite and is all we use now
Yes, Luzianne,tastes much better! I never cared for Lipton because, especially their instant powder tends to be overly caffeinated! I switched to Luzianne when, they quit making the Nestle tea bags, because, I had it from time to time even as a child. Course,I like Splendia in my iced tea with Lemon, for me, I put 2 or 3 lemon slices in my glass, to me, I think it’s the right ratio of sweetness balanced with the right amount of citrus/ lemon.
Luxianne is Steakout’s tea. The best.
same with me, lipton also began giving me migraine headaches
Same. As a northerner who grew up with lipton, I will never not buy Luzianne. It is hands down, 100% the best
I grew up on Luziann and my husband grew up on Lipton. I still cannot convince him to switch. (And I refuse to drink Lipton).
My wife and I stopped at a diner in Minnesota several years ago. When the waitress asked what we wanted to drink, I saw tea on the menu. I asked her if they had sweet tea.
She said yes, then added "its blackberry flavored". Being a good traditional southerner, I almost had a seizure. 😂😂
At least they knew what you meant by sweet tea. I think!
Blackberry tea is fantastic! My hubs is a big fan of peach as well.
@@daniellebrackett4905 I'll pray for you. 🙄😁
Normally (in the north) they give you opaque 2 day old unsweet tea, and paper packets of sugar. The blackberry is probably an upgrade?
@@scottsingleton2951 It probably is an upgrade for them. It's an abomination for any true southerner. 😂
"Tetly! your watchin' out for the frogs in the rainforest! somebody has to cause walmart just plowed 'em over!" LOL I died 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The whole "you ever pack a lip full of tea" thing you said seriously unlocked some forgotten childhood memories. As kids my cousin and I would take pawpaws old skoal cans and fill them with tea, sugar and a little water. We spent a summer rubbin sweet tea. Almost got me in trouble, until I made my dad taste it. Lol
😄💗 that is awesome!
I am a northerner so give me some grace BUT I used to take my dad's freeze dried unsweetened iced tea powder and shove the crystals in one cheek and let them melt.
@@living4mylord no judgment here, my dad always preferred unsweet, so I grew up drinking/enjoying both. I'm not really southern anyway, but I'm very Appalachian and there are a lot of cultural similarities.
That sounds like a fantastic way to get a side of cavities along with your oral cancer.
I burst out laughing at work when he said that.
Old tooth abcess treatment: put a teabag(lightly hit it with some water first) next to the abcess, it will drain it and help the pain stop until you can get to a dentist.
49 year old GA guy here. My folks’ tea was loved by my whole family, and even friends in the neighborhood and later, friends from high school. Even yankee friends thought my parents’ tea was the greatest cold drink ever.
The secret was…..I don’t know.
As I grew up they used Luzianne, except when they were using Tetley, except when they bought Lipton….or when they used a generic brand from Big Star, or Kroger or Wal-Mart or Ingles….so….yeah.
I learned it’s so much more about how you ignore the instructions and do your own thing in the prep and an amount of sugar you’re confident about. 🙂
(One of those things my folks often did would be to double or nearly so the amount of bags recommended for such-n-such an amount. Also a lil more than a cup of sugar per gallon. Heh)
Man, I'm so glad you went solo and got a production team that actually produces. You shine a lot better.
My neighbor as a kid in nearby Villa Rica, GA, made the best sweet tea I ever had. She sun baked it in a big glass thing, she used Lipton.
Yeah sun tea is THE BEST!
Hey there VR! Bowdon here. Are we playing this season? I don't think we're in the same division.
Shout out for the home town VR
Yeah, I always kinda laugh when I see people follow the directions for brewing tea. It's done when it's done. Can't rush perfection. Tastes like water? Didn't brew it long enough! :D
I drank Lipton as a child but after I grew up I preferred Luzianne as an adult it just tastes so much better…🤩
"That's not rain. That's God cryin'."😂😂
The Publix brand is not surprising. Most of their store brand products are really good.
Never tried Publix Sweet Tea. 😊
As a Publix employee Matt, I'm glad you enjoyed our tea! Keep up the good work, we’re rooting for y’all in NC!!
Luzianne in the red box is what I grew up on and still use today. A taste of home ❤
It's my favorite. My daughter has to have decaff and theirs is excellent. A few years ago our Sams was going to stop selling it (started back selling it 2 years later) and I bought enough of their big boxes to last 2-3 years for about $5 a box.
As a Southerner, your videos are tickling me so much! And isn't there just something about the sound of a glass of iced tea that makes you feel at home? That clinky clack as the ice swirls in a mason jar... perfection.
I grew up with Lipton, but don't necessarily have any brand loyalty to it. I actually switched to Publix because it was cheaper and liked it better. Now I actually do a blend. I mix a peach tea I bought online with the Publix tea because by itself, the peach tea tends to be a somewhat bitter. I experimented until I got the perfect blend. Oh, and here's a tip to mellow any bitterness in tea and bring out the flavor. Put just a pinch of salt in it. Be VERY sparing if you're just making an individual serving as you can easily add too much. I make my tea a gallon at a time and use a sprinkling of salt in it. It really enhances the flavors in the tea without making it taste salty.
My mama used to make tea so strong it could eat a hole in the glass! It was sippin’ tea. You sipped it until the ice melted, kind of watering it down. By the time your Mason jar was at almost half, it was perfect! ❤
After 21 years with my husband in the Air Force and being stationed all over, I have tried a lot of teas. We got cheap stuff when times were lean, and pricier brands when we could afford it. After trying many different brands, I can say with complete confidence, Luzianne is the best. Trust me. I've tried many tea brands.
Matt as a Floridian, I'm so proud you finally got publix on your list!
If you want stronger tea, just let it steep longer. The flavor is affected by the bag, so when possible use loose leaf tea.
You picked the right one to be #1! 😊 There is a tea plantation outside of Charleston, SC. They will take you on a tour from showing the plants to how they produced the tea. All the places to see around there and we enjoyed the tea plantation the most 😂
Is Charleston still "Little Mexico"? Last time I was there, years ago, it was wall to wall!
Is Charlestown Landing still open?
I miss my home, but it ain't home, anymore!😢😢
@@jenniferkay9789nah keep your racist ass away. Don’t need that kind of hate around here anymore. Thanks for leaving
Yes, out on Wadmalaw!
I'm going to have to visit!
It's pretty cool. I've been before. The facility and grounds tour was pretty cool, and they gave us as much brrwed tea as we wanted for the time we were there. And it was a pretty drive to the plantation too.
Luzianne was the only tea we made growing up. I refuse to make any other brand and now I'm in charge and expected to make enough tea for all at any party or gathering. That and deviled eggs, lol. With great power comes great responsibility 😂
Hmmm...I have three hard boiled eggs. I have tea. I can have the most delicious cold lunch tomo, even if it's -9 out...
😅
Nearly 27 minutes of Matt. Yes please and thank you.
*goes back to defrosting her fridge, fully entertained*
💗
Loved watching Matt deconstruct as the extra caffeine and sugar built up. 😂
Fun fact: Lipton is actually a British tea! Shoulda used the Tetley bit for Lipton instead.
My dad grew up on Lipton sweet tea as a young boy in west Texas. (My mom was technically born in Chicago but they moved back to the south before she was 3. While she didn't get that instant iced tea knowledge that comes from being born in southern lands, she did learn early. She just doesn't have that instant emotional connection to the tea that tell us southerners exactly how much sugar the tea needs; she's gotta add extra sugar a couple times first.) When he was a young man, he kept drinking Lipton sweet tea even when he worked oversea in Europe. When he met my mom, he was still drinking Lipton sweet tea. When I was around 7, he took a job out in Louisiana and his doctor told him that he had to cut out the sweet tea for his health. He could drink the tea, just not sweet. My dad fessed up that he couldn't do unsweet tea and didn't know how anyone did it. His doctor asked what brand it was and my dad told him Lipton. The doctor was this real, salt of the earth Louisiana Cajun man. Like, forget LSU because this man's office was ULL Rajun' Cajun red everything. Walking into that man's office is like a core memory of mine and is one of the many things that fostered a deep love for Louisiana. He said there was the problem: he needed to get some Luzianne tea. In fact, it was so imperative that my dad stop drinking not just sweet tea but, ugh, Lipton, that the doctor wrote him an actual paper prescription for Luzianne iced tea. He used to have that prescription framed in the kitchen at his Louisiana apartment. We only had Luzianne iced tea from there on out, even when he moved back to Texas. It was the only unsweet tea that he liked and ya know what, he lived another 20 years after that. He did switch back to sweet tea in his last years because at that point, the other stuff would get him before the sweet tea could. I'd love to find that old prescription if he kept it but my mom and I are still going through boxes of his old stuff, 2 years after he passed. The man kept everything "just in case" so it's probably there somewhere.
Moral of the story: Matt, if anyone gives you a hard time for liking Luzianne tea the most, tell them that it's been prescribed by doctors before! Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I need to pick up a fresh box of Luzianne tea later. My dad would've turned 85 tomorrow and I think some fresh Luzianne sweet iced tea would be perfect, doubly so with this heat.
Great Story!!!😂
I am a tea snob, I confess. Born and raised in the south, but now living in Alaska, I have to make my own ice tea because no person or restaurant up here can make it correctly. I much prefer Luzianne to any other brand and I cold brew it rather than steep it. I put four quart-size bags into a liter of water and let it sit overnight. By morning, it’s perfect tea. It’s smooth, dark, but not bitter. Yes, four quart bags per liter is more costly than steeping it, because you get far less tea per bag, but it is still FAR cheaper than soda or bottled water even.
My grandmother made tea this way sometimes. I'd forgotten but will try it myself! Btw, I'm so jealous. My tip item on my bucket list is to visit Alaska and hopefully see the northern lights at some point. This heat and humidity is for the birds! I think I could trade it in for shoveling snow. 😂
I lived in bush alaska for 7 years and had to make my own southern iced tea as well. We went through a gallon every other day, but it was so necessary. (I was surrounded by pepsi drinkers🤮)
@@CeriseGrist Eeww. Pepsi. But I'd love to live in Alaska.
I bought Milo's tea at Walmart, in Pahrump, Nevada, and Milo's and Red Diamond were at a Walmart in Colorado. I'm glad to see our southern brands spreading out.
The best sweet tea I've ever had was Community Tea out of Louisiana and it was brewed outside in the Sun. You can't go wrong with Sun Tea...it has so much flavor
Community also makes my favorite coffee. I never tried their teas. I bet they are great!
Heck ya sun tea is the best
Agreed. They make the best coffee and tea
@@mtimm9023unless you forget about it, lol
Community Coffee and Tea has a stranglehold on Louisiana. One we aren't fighting to get out from.
I live in Michigan but had work in Athens Georgia for six months and we ate lunch at this soulfood restaurant everyday and the sweet tea there was the best sweet tea I've ever had in my life. I've tried to replicate it at home and haven't come close to how good that tea was, food was great too.
Northern born and raised in Michigan on Lipton Sweet Tea by Arkansas parents.😂
Just FYI, but the "Tea plant" is a bush like shrub. Tea bushes grow in zones 7, 8, and 9. It can grow in the US, but is mostly a niche market. (Apparently it can be grown in containers on a porch.
Most of the world's tea production is in China and India. I suspect that's the case for the teas you're drinking today.
To my knowledge there's only one commercial tea grower in the US and that's in Charleston, SC. I'd love to get my own tea plant!
I hear if you can grow camellias, you can grow tea. (they're related)
@@roringusanda2837 Camellia sinensis, it is a camellia.
This guy is way underrated. He is seriously hilarious. ❤️
I will always shout out these editors. They’re hilarious
I'm a luzianne nan myself but as a kid we got this generic tea from big star called rainbow tea and it was definitely the best ever.
I remember Big Star grocery store in Paragould Arkansas!!!😊
I just have to say. I was fixing to buy some HEB tea and was like you know what I'm gonna try Luzianne. NOW I'M HOOKED!
im a southern woman from east texas. i can NOT live without my sweet tea. i laughed so hard watching this video. its been a hot day today and you helped cheer me up. thank you!
Howdy from a fellow East Texan. I grew up in Eustace. ❤
Back when Sam’s sold it, we got Lipton family sized bags and made sweet tea.
Then due to life changes, we’ve gone to unsweetened. And found the sugar covered up how bad Lipton actually is.
We started getting Publix gallon unsweetened which is actually pretty good, but it’s no Milo’s.
As prices keep going up, we bought an electric tea maker and we’ve been using Louisiana which is great tea.
But much to my chagrin; I’m risking your recommendation and bought a 3 pack of 24 family bags of the New Orleans Roast from Amazon.
Give us an update in a week how it be.
I'd pay a shameful amount of money for Milo's tea bags. I can't always get the unsweetened Milo's here.
how can sugar cover up how bad lipton is? just how much sugar we talking like 4 cups/gal? was it chewy?
@@Taterstiltskin LOL, not chewy, but one’s teeth was not fond of it. We used raw cane sugar we got from the Amish / Mennonite store.
@@dennisgibsonii6316 four days in, and we really like it.
As a career senior editor of 29 years, these “Bless Your Rank” segments are beautifully edited. This is a perfect example. Kudos to you whoever edited this 👍🏼
Luzianne used to be my favorite growing up. But then all the stores around here switched to only carrying the “Iced Tea” version and it sucks. I just assumed they quit making the other version. And after going through every possible tea on the shelf, I realized that all of the boxes marked as “iced tea” are pitiful excuses for good Southern Sweet Tea. But the same brands that are not labeled as such make superior versions of sweet tea than the “iced tea”counterpart. The “iced tea” versions sour way too quickly for my liking and they don’t have near enough flavor.
YES!!!
Exactly! it's like they took thier lesser quality leaves and labeled it for iced
What you can do is add a pinch or two of baking soda which will keep it fresh for long
😮 I thought this was all in my head!!
Pretty sure that's the point. If you're buying a box that says "Iced tea" on it you deserve to get bags full of dirt. It's tea. "Iced" is not a type of tea leaf. So if you don't know what type you want to make your tea, you probably will be fine with whatever tea dust gets swept off the floor and put in to the "iced tea" bags.
Luzianne is the best, hands down. I have to bring it back to Sweden when we go home to visit, or have my family ship me box loads. Love my Luzianne!
I think I have watched every "bless your rank" Matt has ever done, and this is the absolute funniest of all. I would have guessed Little Debbie or Girl Scout cookies would be funnier considering his affinity for the baked goods. But no, homemade sweet tea episode has no equal.
09:30 🤣
Has no Equal,? Of course not Matt used real sugar 😂😂
Seriously though,the Bourbon Ranking was my Favorite Matt's a Happy Drinker 😂😂
@@gabanjoman the bourbon ranking was funny as he became more and more sauced. But, the jokes in this one were superb.
I think it's the fact that he speaks faster and faster as the video goes on.
@@gabanjomanI think the bourbon was my favorite one also. Getting all fuzzy and his cheeks going red... Then has to go back and drink more to make sure he got it right. 😂🤣
So glad Luzianne won 😅 one summer my grandma made tea with it and i was hooked. Ive tried their regular,cold brew, and their green tea and they are all great.
Okay, just in case you read this and want to know, Matt, I will tell you some about tea and where it comes from. Short version: pretty much any Ceylon/Sri Lanka + Formosa/Taiwanese Oolong blended = very delicious.
Something like 99.9% of all actual tea (not herbal, which is a tisane) comes from the Camellia Sinesis plant, which does have different varieties. Black, white, and green all just refer to how much the leaf is processed. And much like wine, where it's grown and with what variety drastically affects the taste. Most standard "black tea" or "iced tea" bags are gonna use a blend. China has eleventy gajillion different types of tea, I will not take up your whole day listing them. India is mostly known for Assam and Darjeeling. One of my two favorites is Sri Lanka/Ceylon tea, which taste different depending on which area of the country it was grown in. Some tea is grown in Africa, I see a lot of it coming from Kenya. There are many other countries that produce tea (a little bit is grown in South Carolina!), but most you'll find comes from China, India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya, with some green teas coming from Japan. Special shout out to Oolong, which is my other favorite, which largely comes from Taiwan and China and can, depending on its processing, lean more towards black tea or green tea. I find Taiwanese/Formosa oolong to be especially tasty and will blend it with a Ceylon tea for my iced tea.
Dam you know your tea's
There is a tea growing operation in Mississippi
you have hereby spilled the tea about tea
What about Thai tea? It looks like black tea leaves but it tastes wildly different
What kind of tea is grown in South Carolina??? I am from here and would love to experiment with the leaves from my state :)
As a added bonus, you can get Luzianne in bottle form. Great for when you’re running errands on a Louisiana hot Saturday
I grew up on Cain's tea. My uncle worked for them most of his life so he always had some at home when my mom would go visit her sister during the summer. Something about her well water and that tea brings back so many good feelings of summers past. I tried it at home once with our city water and didnt taste the same.
It was a sad day when they shut down...
Love your content, especially on SEC football. Luzianne and oddly enough Red Diamond are my fav’s. I’m from Deep South Ga and a trick to get more “tea” flavor out of any tea, bring water to boil, remove from heat, add tea bags and cover to let it steep for 10min then my grandfather used to add a pinch of baking soda and it really makes the tea flavor pop- then of course, sugar to taste. 😁👍
Matt ? I just gotta say it : I LOVE you! I sure hope they are paying you enough! And thanks to your wife, too for keeping the house so nice and clean for us, cause, lets face it -- I'm sure it is her or you have a maid or both. Another terrific rank video! Haha! LOL!
Yes, I like Luzianne best too. It is just calm and comforting. Grew up on Lipton, though. And Publix overall is def. winning round here. They've topped out HarrisTeeter, and that is an accomplishment. Also, if you know how to shop at Publix, they aren't that expensive at all. I get better prices on things I buy repeatedly, and stock. That counts for a lot. And yes PUBLIX DELI TEA IN THE GALLON JUG is def worth going there, esp. if you need to take it somewhere. It is very good.
I think Matt was spot on with Luzianne, it's easily my favourite for ice tea. Luzianne also makes a very good hibiscus tea in family size bags. I like to do equal bags of both black and the hibiscus teas when I make my ice tea. If you like things a little tart it's worth trying.
You can turn any hot tea into iced tea. You just steep the tea a little longer than usual and add an appropriate amount of sugar.
"appropriate amount" that's not how you make sweet tea
LOTS more than appropriate.@@MidnightPausch
No, brew double strength, then add sugar, then ice. Brewing longer brings out the tannins, which makes it more bitter. You want it strong, not bitter
@@neen42 This. If your sweet tea is too weak, use more bags, don't steep for longer. If I'm making sweet tea, I'll usually make a cup of hot tea (always sweetened to taste) and use that as a basis for how many bags I need to use for that particular brand.
If your teeth don't rattle like a box of tic tac shaken in a paint shaker and the diabetic person 30feet from you doesn't fall out in a diabetic coma... It's not sweet enough.
the beginning called me out so bad😂 when my friend and i moved into our new apartment at OU, both our moms gave us a jug of milo’s and 12 mason jars cause they knew we’d be too lazy to make our own sweet tea
I grew up with sweet tea made as a syrup from tea leaves, not tea bags. Add water and ice when ready to drink. It lasts longer and still tastes great. I grew up in Indiana but my ancestors were from the south.
Not only my moms ancestors but, my mom’s family is from as far south as you can go when, it comes to being from Indiana, my grandpa, I never met made the wheels for Horse Buggy’s!
If you're ever Indiana, try the home brewed sweet tea at Big Hoffa's in Westfield. You won't be disappointed. The BBQ is amazing also. Ranked #1 in Indiana and #3 in the nation.
Excellent ranking. I don’t sweeten my tea, and if you want to come for my Southern card about it, pack a lunch. Luzianne is also my traditional favorite, but pro tip on Lipton. They make a “cold brew” tea. I don’t recommend it for regular use, but if you’re traveling, especially “overseas” places like NYC or California, you’ll have tea. Just use double the amount of bags they suggest.
Man, I haven’t thought of Quincy’s in forever! Brings back great memories of my late grandparents and those rolls/ ice cream machines
How many tea bags and sugar did Lisa use when she made the tea?
Right?? We need the recipe!
My grandmother made her tea with loose leaf Lipton’s. She threw a handful into a pot of boiling water with a pinch of baking soda and let it sit for 10 minutes or so. Then she strained the tea into a glass pitcher. For years she stirred in a cupful of sugar but later, when her doctor told her she was prediabetic, she switched to saccharine. She used the tiny little tablets that came in a tiny bottle. The used tea leaves were tossed into her garden to become next year’s tasty tomatoes.
In the 90s my aunt had a big ol' bottle of liquid aspartame and everybody at her house would pass it around, adding a ton to their glass
Love Luzianne too! But for plain hot tea I really like Red Rose Tea Bags.
Yes, recently discovered Red Rose for hot tea, delicious!
Red rose makes the BEST sweet tea, it’s what my mom always made and I have an extensive collection of the little figurines that used to come in the boxes. 😊
Luzianne tea has always been my favorite for stove top tea, but Lipton for sun tea. 🌞
Grew up drinking Lipton, but I switched to Luzianne when I saw the decaf iced tea bags at Walmart one day. Best decision I ever made, what a great iced tea!! Thanks Matt!!
The Luzianne cold brew is the best thing ever. You can forget to take the bags out and it doesn't become bitter.
I actually prefer orange pekoe black tea. The only brand I can find locally is the Piggly Wiggly store brand. I bring 6 small tea bags in 3 cups of water to a boil, then steep for about 15 minutes and add just over half a cup of sugar per quart. Yes, I squeeze the cooled tea bags to get all the flavor out.
I grew up in California and my mom used Lipton. I moved to Mobile, Alabama for 4 years and became a die hard Luzianne convert. It was impossible to find in Alaska where we moved next, so I bulk ordered it from Amazon. Now we’re in Texas and it’s tough to find Luzianne sometimes. I did a mini Bless Your Rank at home from what was available in my store and the HEB brand came out the winner of most like Luzianne. Not surprising because HEB brand everything is often as good if not better than the name brand.
I grew up drinking either store brand, Lipton, or Luzianne. The Lipton was my favorite, and the Luzianne was a very close second.
The tea I grew up with was either Lipton or Red Rose tea, mostly Red Rose tea. And Mom's way of making it was to put ....a large handful of the individual teabags I'm not sure how many but I know a lot. And the Red Rose tea came with the little ceramic figurine. They no longer do this, it's very sad. I think the Red Rose ice tea has a more bitter tannic flavor but sometimes that's what you need.
Red Rose is definitely the best.
My GG put 6 Red Rose bags in 2.5 cups of boiling water for 6 minutes. Don’t strain the bags too much. Add a half cup of sugar and the juice of half a lemon. Add enough water and ice to make a half gallon. That’s how an Iowa farm wife made it. She worked hard and lived to be 97 with NO DIABETES, so I don’t add more sugar, either.
My great grandma could teach you a thing about sweet tea. I was raised on Lipton, and she'd take a glass from a box of Wedding Oats (anyone remember those?), just slightly larger than your typical orange juice glass, and sweeten it with three (3!) teaspoons of sugar. Grandma liked tea syrup.
I remember Wedding Oats. Glasses, wheat patterned dishes sometimes. We were dirt poor, so those "freebies" sure came in handy.
@@joshijoshi6308 I think we had the sugar bowl, a couple of dishes, and a whole bunch of those glasses.
Speaking as a native Alabamian now residing in Georgia, this may be the most important ranking you've ever done. (Also, now I'm finally gonna open that bag of Y'all tea that I bought the last time I went to Alabama. I've refused to open it because the branding feels like a souvenir of home.)
growing up in New York (not the city), my mom always made sun tea every summer using Luzianne tea. As an adult, whenever I make tea for myself, it's always been Lipton, but I haven't really experimented with other brands
I can confirm, STAY AWAY FROM TETLEY!! Pitiful excuse for tea! Lol
First of all, I consider myself the world's foremost authority on sweet iced tea. I've been consuming it at an alarming rate for 30+ years, I have mastered my own home brew, and taste tested every bottled/restaurant tea all over the U.S.A where available. In my opinion Luzianne is the best!
"ICE" is a solid water joke.
hahahahahaaa 😂🤣 love it!!
Went out and bought Luzianne! I can absolutely confirm (as a northerner from Pennsylvania) it is delicious without sugar also😅.
Don't hate me. I'm from Philadelphia, read you comment and went out to try the Luzianne, pretty good.
Am I the only one that wants to see Matt take a field trip to the tea plantation near Chaleston now?
He would love it! I've been, and it's a cool experience.
YES. I would even go and meet him. It would be worth the 2-hour drive for me.
Thank you for the discovery of Luzianne tea! Absolutely delicious, smooth and not bitter! It's even delicious UNSWEETENED! Yes, you caught me, I'm a Yankee. I am an iced tea addict, no sweetener. Trader Joe's is often out of my lifeblood, unsweetened green and white tea in a jug, as they are now, sending me to my pantry to make my own. And I found this miracle which I bought on Amazon after enjoying this video some time ago. Love your humor! Thanks!
My mama made sun tea, so sweet tea definitely tastes like summer to me ❤
Mine did too. I’d forgotten about that, thanks for the memory.
Lipton is what I used for YEARS to make my own home made sweet tea. Then I moved to Florida where the tap water tastes like a quarry so now I just buy like 4-6 Milo's jugs every other week.
Just starting the video but I would laugh my butt off if someone tried to sneak unsweet tea into the line up to get his reaction expecting sweet tea and tasting death
that’s called attempted murder
@@alostrich lol
i have a feeling thats what happened with the tetley
At least an abomination to expect sweet tea and get unholy unsweetened tea.
That would be hilarious!!
Luzianne is the best. I grew up on it, and it's perfect. We served it at my wedding. My grandma used Lipton a lot, and ugh, it was soooo weak!
I grew up drinking Lipton. But my favorite, as an adult, is iced Earl Grey. Preferably made as a sun tea.
Imma hafta try that! I love Earl Grey!
16:02 as one of the few hot tea drinkers in Alabama I feel called out. I'll have you know I put plenty of sugar, honey, a dash of lemon and a few peppermints in it before hand to save it. It's just really good on the throat when your sick. I'll admit it's definitely moreover a winter drink. I usually use Twining's Irish Breakfast.
I use PG tips for my homemade sweet tea. It’s a really good English black tea. It really hits the spot , especially with bourbon
I dont know if its available everywhere, but where i live, they have a brand called Aunt Bertie's, and its a sweet tea concentrate. Basically, its a thick syrup that your supposed to dilute in water.
My mom made Lipton tea when I was growing up, but as an adult, I prefer Luzianne. Fun video!
10 Early grey tea with the peel from the apple pie apples boiled in the water.
1cup sugar.
Zest a lemon in it and cut for the side.
Distilled water ice
My southern grandma mixed Lipton and Luzianne for her perfect combination. I sadly did not get the correct combination of how many of each bag was used. I was clearly raised right though because I would take my bottle to her and she would put sweet tea in it for me.
Thanks for thinking of me, and your other viewer from Australia. We’ll definitely have a chat to the kangaroo (AKA QANTAS) about how to get that scent service here one day ✈️😊
P.S. Sweet tea isn’t really a thing here, but tea is popular and ice tea has its fans too. So, I’m sure we could make sweet tea work. It’ll be summer soon for us 🥵
Four liters of water in a glass jar, a metric handful of tea bags or loose leaf, cover it and let it sit out in the sun most of the day.
Add two double handfuls of refined sugar (!) and stir well.
Serve over ice in a canning jar. 🎉😊
We can tell you’re a naturally funny guy because you played off the thunderstorm so well.
Luzianne is personally the best, we make ours with 6 quart bags per gallon of distilled water, pure cane sugar and use Casco ice, stuff is perfect. You chug the first glass and sip the second.
I’m in NJ & like using Signature brand(Acme) regular black tea bags. I make a half gallon at a time🎉. And….my favorite Great Value item is the maple flavored bacon jerky. It’s one serving, don’t believe that other number😉. Stay awesome Matt!!!
Not to overstate anything, but this is the Bless Your Rank I’ve been waiting for my entire life.
By far the best tea, luzianne cold brew. I know it’s made with strange stuff to make it cold brew, but it’s just perfect. There is a floral essence that just adds to the tea. Try it and thank me later.
People act like I'm crazy when I say that tea has "spoiled" but it happens! It's a real thing!
I make trays of coffee and trays of tea ice, so they don't get "watered down". It really helps.
5:45 Lipton does IN FACT come from the Bankhead National Forest! Just stop by the Gateway Foodland in Double Springs. Its down the aisle just past the coffee...
I was raised on lipton both powder and tea bag and switched to luzianne. Though I really like HEB brand, It has a stronger tea flavor if you drink it without ice. I do that on hot days or after mowing the lawn and want something sweet and cold.
Matt, you ought to go to Charleston, SC tea plantation to pick you up some truly southern sweet tea and you'll know exactly where it comes from. Plus its such a beautiful place to take the family.
We grew up in MI making "sun tea" with Red Rose tea bags. I was hoping they were gonna be on your list. If you see it around down there, give it a try. 😊
I couldn’t even find Red Rose when we moved to Texas. That broke a family tradition of using my great-grandma’s recipe, exactly.
I also lost my pitcher, and I couldn’t find a half-gallon pitcher in this state!
Isn't that the brand that gave the little knick knack thing?
@@danday9697 sure is!
I grew up on Lipton tea hot and cold in the far north. However, about the time I moved to Florida, Lipton changed their tea blends and so I went exploring. I've used Luzianne ever since. I had to cut the sugar in half! I know Matt, what!! Still Luzianne tastes very good and is smooth.
Nothing worse than sweet tea that has turned bad! 😊 I've always preferred Luzianne tea
Yes!! Or when it takes on that sweet mud-water taste.
Luzianne is always the correct answer to the question of which sweet tea is best.
My only issue with this, if you get 5 different people to make the tea, you are gonna get 5 different results.