Tea - sweetened or unsweetened?

Do you prefer brewed iced tea sweetened with sugar or already sweetened bottled ice tea?

I prefer the ones that are already sweetened.

I love green tea. I used to drink it hot when I worked, unsweetened. I like the cold green tea with a hint of honey and ginseng.

Yes, green tea is good in just about any way possible (with in reason)

LOL! I get the feeling that many people like it very sweet. If I add some splenda or SNL or whatever, I only add a little, to take the 'edge' off.

I guess to me cold brewed iced tea isn't really supposed to be sweet, although the bottled or flavored varieties are. I drink a lot of water anyway so I guess the lack of sweetness doesn't generally bother me either.

LOL! Yeah, the grainy texture can go. I try not to say anything when my friends pour sugar into iced tea and stir it while sitting by me but sometimes I can't NOT make a face....

Kind of nasty, huh? I am also glad that I'm not sensitive to substitutes... boy would that ruin my life lol. If I couldn't sub things for sugar, I guess that would mean I'd get fat from drinking regular tea and soda with sugar

Mmmmm. I will have to get some tea soon. Answering all these responses is making me thirsty lol. Lemon is probably my favorite but you can squeeze lemon into anything. Sometimes I get creative and squeeze fresh lemon or lime into other flavored tea, like raspberry or peach.

I love mint tea... my favorite is probably something called Sweet Dreams. It has mint in it along with some other flavors, and it's sweet enough on its own. I add honey when my throat is bothering me or I'm sick.

Do you like brewed fresh or bottled tea then? I guess I am at odds because I prefer unsweetened brewed iced tea but sweetened bottled iced tea. I just usually go for the calorie free ie diet versions of those.

Colored water... lol! I don't generally drink just plain tea, I usually have herbal or I add lemon to it. Since I don't brew my own tea I tend to have it when I'm out, at someone's house or somewhere I'm having a meal.

I think that maybe we have a desire for sweet things and it's stronger when we are younger. I LOVED sweets when I was younger. I still like sweets but I am more gourmet about my choices now. As a kid I would happily have eaten any kind of chocolate, any kind of candy, cool whip, kool aid.... now I prefer dark chocolate, especially with orange, sweet and sour type things, and I definitely do not like kool aid! Once I made a pitcher of kool aid and then I caught my son later pouring a FOURTH CUP of sugar into a glass BEFORE pouring in the kool aid! I was so disgusted that I took the sugar out of the pantry and hid it in my room! I don't know what he was thinking, I almost had a sugar coma just watching it! I have large drinking glasses, I think they hold like 21 oz but still! The kool aid was already sweetened!

There's just something about unsweetened that I like too. I don't necessarily like bitter either, I just don't always need everything sweet. I eat waffles and pancakes sometimes without syrup, or I use fruit instead, or peanut butter.

When I am really thirsty, usually I just prefer ice water, but if I am beyond thirst sometimes I like diet coke, maybe it means my body needs the sodium lol. I do drink a lot of tea, I always have a bottle somewhere in my pantry or fridge, besides water, diet coke, and coffee, it's my most-drunk beverage.

I think I am weird. It's not that I don't like SWEET, I do, but I don't like the texture of mixing sugar into a cold drink. I also won't put sugar on cereal, although I do eat things like frosted flakes or frosted cheerios. It doesn't dissolve right and then it tastes gritty or... syrupy. Even the thought is grossing me out lol. I can put sugar in hot drinks but I usually don't, sometimes a pinch of something like splenda - which dissolves well because it's more powdery than grainy.

Milk is good in hot tea but I have never added it to iced tea. In fact I used to think it was odd to add milk until I tried it once at a tea house lol.