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Sweet Tea

Also known as Sweet Iced Tea, Southern Sweet Tea

Black tea · Tea drink · Southern United States, United States · American

Black tea sweetened while hot and served ice cold, a staple of the American South. The oldest known recipe, from 1878, used green tea; black tea took over during the Second World War.

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