Welcome to our series sharing Food Holidays: June 10th, 2021. Take a look at which food/ beverage people are celebrating today and let me know if your going to celebrate as well.
This is a Holiday for my sister and I to celebrate because we drink at least one glass of Iced Tea a day. For me I prefer Sweet Iced Tea with no, Lemon of any kind.
My sister will drink both Sweetened and UN-Sweetened and sometimes flavored Teas. Charlie only drinks Sweet Tea and that is once in a blue moon.
As for David he will drink both Sweet and UN-Sweetened and even flavored Teas like Peach Tea which Charlie likes or Raspberry Tea when he can find it and both Charlie and David like Lemon Tea.
National Iced Tea Day – is celebrated annually on June 10 when AMERICANS tasted their first sip of this cooling beverage as early as the 19th Century since then the Country’s love affair with Iced Tea has only grown .
This iconic hot-weather drink that makes you want to lazily drawl your vowel sounds as you leisurely rock back-and-forth on your porch has been a popular refreshing elixir for more than a century.
Sweetened or unsweetened and sometimes mixed with other flavors such as Lemon, Mint, Peach, Apple, Cherry, Strawberry – or however you enjoy Tea let’s raise a glass of our beloved bevy and say cheers.
A little History with that Iced Tea
Did you know that next to Water, Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world? In 2014, Americans consumed over 80 billion servings of Tea, or more than 3.60 billion gallons.
Approximately 85 per cent of the Tea consumed in America is Iced Tea. Ready-to-Drink Iced Tea has spiked over the last ten years with sales conservatively estimated to be more than $5.2 billion.
We have the 1904 World’s Fair to thanks for the lift-off in popularity of Iced Tea. That exceedingly hot Summer meant fair goers were looking to cool down and what better way than with a glass of Iced Tea.
By the First World War, Americans were buying tall glasses, which became commonly known as Iced-Tea glasses, along with long spoons suitable for stirring Sugar into taller glasses and Lemon forks.
Prohibition, which ran from 1920 to 1933, helped boost the popularity of Iced Tea as Americans looked at alternatives to drinking Beer, Wine and hard liquor, which were made illegal during this period.
Did you know Cold Tea reared its head in the early nineteenth century when Cold Green Tea Punches spiked with booze gained in popularity. Recipes began appearing in English and American cookbooks. Generally referred to as Punches, the recipes called for Green Tea not Black Tea.
While most iced Teas get their flavor from Tea leaves, Tisanes or Herbal Teas are also sometimes served cold and referred to as Iced tea. Iced tea is sometimes made by a particularly long steeping of Tea leaves at a lower temperature (one hour in the Sun versus five minutes at 80-100 °C). Some people call this Sun Tea. In addition, sometimes it is also left to stand overnight in the refrigerator.
Did you know…
- A cup of Black Tea has half as much caffeine as a cup of Coffee.
- Drinking Milk may mean stronger bones, but the same goes for a cup of Tea! If that is true then mine and my sisters bones must be super strong because we drink Tea everyday.
- In one day, an experienced Tea picker can collect around 70 pounds of Tea! Which is enough tea to make 14000 cups! Talk about filling a quota.
- A large amount of caffeine is released from Tea after the first 30 seconds of brewing. Dumping the content out and pouring new hot water is a neat trick for Caffeine conscience Tea drinkers. Which is something I’ve been doing all my life.
- There are four main types of Tea: White, Green, Oolong, and Black. But depending on the influence of culture, these four types can turn into thousands of varieties.
Fun facts about Tea
In 2003, Georgia State Representative John Noel introduced a House Bill proposing that all Georgia restaurants serving Tea be required to serve Sweet Tea. It was done apparently as an April Fool’s Day joke and Noel is said to have acknowledged that the bill was an attempt to bring humor to the Legislature, but he also said he wouldn’t mind if this became law.
Did you know Tea is a refreshing beverage that contains no Sodium, Fat, Carbonation, or Sugar. Tea is virtually calorie-free. Finally something I can have that will not hinder my diet. Thank the LORD… Tea helps maintain proper fluid balance and may contribute to overall good health.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
