But sugar dissolves in cold water. It just takes a bit longer. This is 9th grade chemistry. At 20°C 203.9g sugar are soluble per 100ml of water.

[Edit: Sorry, for the Americans here: At 68°F, 1 cup of sugar is soluble in 21/50 cups of water.]

Wikipedia (de): Zucker cites Hans-Albert Kurzhals: Lexikon Lebensmitteltechnik. Volume 2: L – Z. Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-973-7, p. 723.

Well that explains the diabeetus.

i hate when i go down south and go to restaurants and order iced tea and get a glass of concentrated sugar water

Lemmy is now getting reposts. We've reached critical mass!

Well, it's the gays or atheists. Or "colored" people. Or whoever they are told to hate at that moment. This happens more than you know in this day and age:

As a server, southerners stare at me in wide eyed awe when I pour a disgusting amount of simple syrup into a glass of iced tea.

This seems like a US thing I’m too European to understand

(aka. they bring us the ingredients, and we make our own tea at the restaurant table)

"four seasons-having piece of shit" lol I'm going to start discriminating against people based on their seasons.

"Everybody is welcome at my house!... as long as you've experienced snow, that is"

Sugar will dissolve in unsweet tea, it's just slower. If you can't dissolve it in cold tea, then it wouldn't stay in solution in hot tea that was cooled down.

For someone complaining about northerners not knowing 9th grade chemistry, it sure sounds like they weren't paying attention themselves.

Damn, I knew sugar was bad for you, but boy it looks like it can make you really irritable. Stop drinking so much sugar y'all. It's nasty.

That's OK. I don't eat 'em.

Perhaps the real tea is the shitposts we made along the way.

I mean it would be inconvenient but they would still dissolve, they aren't super saturating sweetened tea in the south.

And I hate when they have only sweet tea...

the correct response to somebody trying to order sweet tea in the north is and always has been this quote from 30 rock:

“I'm gonna come back in 5 minutes, if you try to order off menu again I will slap those glasses off your face.”

Maybe the amount of sugar that cold water easily accepts is the correct amount to not taste like shit

We got Union as hell on this post, didn't we. Every time I come back it has more comments.

I'm still mad as fuck that I can't get my precious Lipton Instant Tea at Walmart, because I really was raised in a trailer park, so maybe that's why I had to delete my own giant shitty comment about this.

It's mostly water?

I don't have to heat up lemonade to make the sugar dissolve in it; why would tea be different?