I'm southern, y'all. You know I would never say a bad thing about sweet tea unless it was entirely merited, right? Okay.
So Publix has some of the best sweet tea ever, and in picking up my deli sandwich for lunch I decided to grab a small bottle. About halfway through something in the ingredient list caught my eye.
That's right. That says CARAMEL COLOR.
Now here is the problem. Whenever I make tea, it just automatically comes out caramel colored. I don't add any sort of coloring to it to make it that color. Teabag, water, sugar. Stick it in the sun and bam. Sweet tea. I've been making sweet tea since I was old enough to carry the pitcher out to the back porch and I'm pretty sure that I would be considered an expert on this subject. So what I want to know is, what in the heckfire did Publix do to this tea that made them have to add something to it to RETURN IT TO THE COLOR THAT IT IS IN NATURE?
I find this incredibly disturbing.
