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Long Island iced tea (media.piefed.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 31 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Most places will limit you to like two of those kinds of drinks. First time I learned this I thought I was being cut off. I was like “did I do something wrong?” They said no, you can order anything else. Just not more of those.

Which is odd, because they’ll let you order a beer and a shot as many times as you want, and that will fuck me up way more, for some reason.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    You can taste it a lot more in a beer or shot. Its much less likely to sneak up on you, with how much alcohol is in a long Island, and the fact you can hardly taste it.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I gotta try one cuz I hear this all the time, but the ingredients are nothing but alcohol. Is it like there's just so much it cancels out the alcohol taste? 🤔

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    As yellow said, if it's properly mixed, the effect is to be a very sweet iced tea taste where the alcohol is nearly unnoticeable. It's probably due to the mixer/syrup just obliterating the harshness of the alcohol. Before I gave up drinking, it was definitely one of the few drinks that could sneak up and kick you in the ass if you weren't paying attention.

    The fact of sweet mixed drinks getting into you faster likely is also a contributing factor, and the classic liquors that they use are 'sugar heavy.'

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Depends on how it's made. I've had some (of varying strengths) where this was true, and others where the alcohol was more than apparent.

    I've had margaritas like this, too. Unless it's really strong, in which case you're going to taste it no matter what.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    A proper long Island is about 5 ounces of liquid with 4 of them being liquor. That's way more potent than a bee and a shot.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    The "classic" is 5x15ml of liquor, you're supposed to do half measures for the classic mix. That's ~24ml of pure alcohol, about the same as a strong Double or a medium Triple beer.

    IF you're doing half measures, which most places won't, because that gets the bartender shouted at.

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