If there is one thing that I truely do not understand, it is the ice-tea situation at McDonalds. There is Sweet Tea, and then there is Unsweetened Tea. Now the Sweet tea has a large quantity of sugar added to it, so the name Sweet Tea makes perfect sense. However I constantly find myself wondering, what is unsweetened tea? The word unsweetened to me implies that a sweetner is removed from the tea, but that is not the case. NOT THE CASE AT ALL! The Unsweetened tea just doesnt have any sweetner added to it. So how can you remove a sweetner from a tea that doesnt have any sort of sweetner added to it in the first place. Unsweetend Tea is just Tea. What is wrong with just calling it Tea?
And if you are considering the argument, maybe "Unsweetened" means that there is no sweetner in it, good for you. Because this is true, however it is irrelevant. It is completely pointless to tack on the word "Unsweetened" before the word "Tea". So why do it if not only to frustrate me? The word Tea is capable of standing on its own, it needs no help to describe what it is.
Paul, this argument speaks to me on a deep level; I agree with you 100%! The word 'tea' should be able to stand on its own. It needs no 'unsweetened' to accompany it!
ReplyDeleteI love tea, and I understand your point of view. However I think it is so normal just to say "unsweetend tea", because I do it all the time at a resturant. I guess its just the proper way to say it, but I agree tea should just be tea.
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