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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 177 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

and the options are sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, or water

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago
[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

’ll have a number 6 with extra dip. Big Smoke: I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda. Make that diet, I'm trying to watch my weight.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

To be fair, the alcoholic menu us typically like this too. 95% of the menu is beer, wine, or vodka and some kind of syrup.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Even if it's not on the menu, it's not like you can't get X neat or on the rocks.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

^ This. Diet Coke/Pepsi if you're LUCKY. Otherwise, water.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 12 points 7 months ago

Do you people’s restaurants not serve iced tea?

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

In some states iced tea would also be full of sugar. And "hot tea" is a dry teabag next to a cup of warmish water.

[-] Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

As an iced tea enjoyer, who has been to almost 40 states that is absolutely untrue. I've never been to any restaurant that serves sweet tea but does not serve unsweetened as well. Some places especially in the north don't consistently have either, but in my experience, if they have one they always have the other

[-] shuzuko@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Nope. Plenty of places in the midwest only carry unsweet and "flavored", not regular sweet tea. The flavor is usually extra sweet fruit flavored syrup like raspberry or peach.

[-] Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Okay fair enough, I haven't been to many Midwestern states, especially rural areas of those states. I was more referring to places carrying only sweet tea and not unsweet

[-] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

Here in Canada it is mostly just sweet tea

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 7 points 7 months ago

I have been all over the continental United States of America, except California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, and that other state up there between California and Washington that I always think is Vermont, driving a truck and have literally never been to a place that had sweet tea but not unsweet.

I’ve seen a few the other way around, but that was in New England, about as far from sweet tea culture as you can get.

Maybe a gas station or a fast food joint that use the syrups instead of brewed, but you don’t want to drink that shit

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

I live in GA, where if you order tea it will be defaulted to sweet tea. However, I have never seen a place that doesn't have unsweet - you just have to order it that way.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The trick is "Unsweetened Ice Tea", which not everyone has. :(

[-] STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I mean, I just annoyed that milk isn't even an option in a lot of restaurants. It's something so basic, like.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago

actually milk is slightly acidic

jk

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

Sorry, the milk is for the kids' menu. You can't order from that.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago
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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Check the menu for items that require milk as an ingredient. You might be able to order a glass even if it isn't on the menu.

[-] christophski@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago
[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Like anything with a bechamel-based sauce or gravy, or custard/pudding/flan, or pancakes, etc.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Unless you are at an extremely expensive or extremely small restaurant, their sauces come premade in a bag from Cisco.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

To order for a kid? Or the sloppy steak?

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

OMG - i had forgotten the sloppy steak!

[-] electric@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I've been in plenty where you could just order milk. 🤷

Though usually those are chain restaurants that prioritize breakfast, might be why.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Despite what Lucille Bluth believes, vodka doesn't bad in a few days after opening bottle. Milk goes bad quickly.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago

They usually have the milk on hand for cooking, or just the kids menu. If my family of 4 can easily go through 2 gallons a week, I can't imagine a resteraunt having problems using up milk before it goes bad unless they over-purchase

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Afaik, the only other options besides what you listed for beverages anywhere is milk, coffee and tea. And depending where you get them, the coffee and tea may as well just be sugar (or aspartame) too.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, coming from a tropical country to the US was a disappointment there. I used to be able to get a variety of freshly squeezed juices almost anywhere, and the only thing they serve around here are bottled OJ's that barely taste like orange. It's not even like there's a limited variety at the grocery store, it's just not a thing...

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Most juice has a lot of sugar. The ones that don't don't generally taste that good.

But bottle OJ tasting like shit is a real thing, they have to do so much to it to get it to last for more than a week on the shelf that all the flavor is sucked out of it.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Juice is still pretty sugary, even fresh squeezed. They naturally have sugars in them which is why they are sweet. While a lot of premade juice also includes added sugars. There was a study posted somewhere on Lemmy not too long ago that showed most American's sugar intake came from fruit juices and not sodas as previously thought.

[-] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Mocktails, a whole new world

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This annoys me so badly.

I don't drink carbonated beverages,, so when I go into a place and don't want beer then my options are basically coffee or water.

Fine in the mornings, but I don't want a coffee at 5PM. So I guess it's just water then huh

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

i'm a hydrohomie, i would be/am more than fine with that.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

What's wrong with water? I usually just get water and ask for lemon slices to squeeze into it. Which is a game changer and they always have on hand because of the alcoholic drinks lmao

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Don't forget fake sugar. And most of that "sugar" is actually corn we tricked into tasting like sugar.

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I honestly hope you are making some attempt at a joke, and I'm just failing to get it...

[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

I think it's a high fructose corn syrup joke, but that's more like squeezing all the sugar out of a cob of corn and pretending it's juice concentrate in my mind.

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