What sweetener do you use in hot drinks?

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27 Nov 2023, 7:13 pm

Good point. ^ I like raw sugar too, if I do use anything sweet.

I'm not a fan of sugar in any form though. I don't even like sweets.

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27 Nov 2023, 8:24 pm

Golden sugar. It doesn't stick together like brown sugar.
I usually have a cup of flavored black tea in the morning with golden sugar.

If I want to skip the sugar I'll drink either a herbal tea, fermented tea like pu-erh, or green tea.

Pu-erh tea can be seeped multiple times.

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27 Nov 2023, 8:42 pm

Coffee black no sugar.
Herbal tea no sugar
Hot black or green tea two sugar no milk maybe honey and lemon.
Iced tea sweet with lemon.

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27 Nov 2023, 8:50 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

I don't drink hot drinks.

I used to not drink them very often, but I have started doing so more recently, since I end up drinking too much fizzy drinks or 'soda' as you might call it in Canada (I'm not sure of Canadian terminology regarding this item), when not drinking hot drinks.

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27 Nov 2023, 9:03 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:

I don't put any sugar or sweetener in my tea, I did when I was younger, but I became used to drinking it with just milk, which sweetens it up enough. On the other hand, I could never drink coffee without it being sweetened up. Lots of people think if you can drink coffee without sugar you're really mature or a "tough guy", but it's really because your taste buds aren't very sensitive, especially as you get older.

I think you're onto something there. With me anyway, you are. I've been a smoker since I was a kid. That coupled with age...man...my taste buds are not exactly firing as they should. I mean, I've always been a fan of 'bitter' but I know I like things more bitter, spicy, or whatever than most people do. It's (at least partly) because my sense of taste is dulled. I used to be more sensitive to that as a kid, that I know for sure. It just happens to a lot of people. It happened to me.

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28 Nov 2023, 8:12 am

I watching a stand up comedian a few months back talking about tea and how he'd given up sugar in his tea because sugar is bad for you, then he gave up milk in his tea because dairy is bad for the planet and that's when he realised he didn't like tea. Tea was an excuse to have milk and sugar.

That's exactly how I feel about it. I used to have about 10 cups of tea a day, 2 sugars each time. But tea without milk or sugar is rank to my tastebuds, too astringent.

Coffee, I used to have lots of milk and sugar, but I now enjoy with just a little cream.

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28 Nov 2023, 2:26 pm

Agave syrup.

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28 Nov 2023, 6:13 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

I don't drink hot drinks.

Ah, it's hard to control the urge for soda.

Fwiw, I'm used to Canadians calling it pop, but for whatever reason I tend to call it soda. :lol:

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28 Nov 2023, 7:27 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

Fwiw, I'm used to Canadians calling it pop, but for whatever reason I tend to call it soda. :lol:

You must have some psychic influence from the country that neighbours the one that you live in.

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28 Nov 2023, 7:34 pm

The term is "soda pop" so either word is acceptable.

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28 Nov 2023, 7:38 pm

People in some parts of the US just call it pop, too.

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28 Nov 2023, 7:49 pm

I have heard people call it pop in the UK. Although fizzy drinks is a commonly used term also, which I don't think is used overseas?

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28 Nov 2023, 7:54 pm

My partner who is Canadian calls them fizzies.

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28 Nov 2023, 7:55 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

My partner who is Canadian calls them fizzies.

Ah, maybe the ol' fizzy drink term is more popular than I thought. Fizzies is close enough.

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28 Nov 2023, 8:05 pm

He's Scottish-Canadian, if that makes a difference.

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