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

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I decided to try loose tea. I'd rather make a mug of loose tea and let it cool down than try ANY of the pre-packaged "iced" teas.

And there's much more variety with loose tea.

Which reminds me, I still have a box of tea from Adagio that I haven't opened yet...

Doc