how many places can you hide "tea"?

[acroyear]

At the local Giant, the following places may or may not have Tea.

• fridged goods, packaged tea can be found in plastic jugs across from milk.  in this particular Giant, they're all HFCS/Lemon sweetened.
• by the fruit juices and gatoraid: Arizona Tea and Snapple
  
• by the coffee: many and varied tea boxes, powdered "instant" tea, and tea from concentrate (some of these are actually unsweetened!)
• in "natural" medicines (i.e., by the vitamins and herbal suppliments), medicinal herbal teas
• in the organic aisle: "Honest" Tea (sometimes -- stock in this section changes rapidly)
  
• amongst the sodas: lipton "brisk" and nestea "cool" (all HFCS + rediculous amounts of lemon to hide the fact that it pretty much isn't tea by this point).
• in their own section in the soda aisle: assorted oddball teas not covered above, like "lizard" tea, gensing tea, ginko tea, and other lipton bottles (all rediculously sweetened, and they never include the unsweetened version even though it does exist).
  

it should be noted that only the tea bags and "instant" tea is there tea to be found without any sweetening additives (HFCS, Splenda, Nutrisweet, or Sugar (rarely)).  The Honest tea only puts in a little pure sugar (so it only comes out to 34 cal / bottle compared to 80-160 for HFCS teas).

I'm trying the Nestea concentrate right now, which it did have in a non-sweetened version and its not too bad for my needs.

in florida, the "fresh iced teas" in the refridgerated goods section did come in non-sweetened versions, but not up here they don't.

something so simple, tea...

Comments

[katrinb.livejournal.com]

Whole Foods does sell, in their refrigerated juices/drinks section, a selection of chilled bottled green teas without any sweetener whatsoever (don't remember the brand, but they're in a rectangularish tall bottle with a haiku on it, and come in Green, Green Jasmine, Green Hojicha (a rich toasted flavor), and Green White flavors). Quite tasty and refreshing, if you like plain unsweetened green teas, as I do.

HonesTea is another of my favorites, if I'm going for a quick cold tea fix - though I like their herbals better, particularly Black Forest Berry and First Nations Peppermint (that last is a wonderful tonic for this weather - Moroccan Mint is good, too, if you want actual tea with your mint). A few of the newer ones (I forget the flavors, but one has Opus on the label and one has a Chinese dragon) have more sugar than the rest, though. :^P

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

i don't do "mint" teas. ;-)

HonestTea's Assam (standard black tea with just a touch of sugar) is fine by me...only the convenience store downstairs gets so little of it that its out within a week and they get it shipped once every 3 weeks...

[thatwasjen]

ITO-EN http://www.itoen.com/
Expensive, but worth it.

[katrinb.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOH. Thank you. Lots of varieties there...