The Cynical Critic

So it’s Tuesday today, and yet their seems to be no sign of a “Terrible Tuesday” post. Yes, that’s right. For the time being I am way too lazy to think of something worthwhile to review. Or for that matter, something crappy to review. However, time dictates that I try to post something at least once or twice a week in order to attract viewers. Go figure. So here it is. My completely and utterly pointless review of McDonald’s Sweet Tea. Are you mad yet that you even bothered to click on the link to visit my blog? Well too bad. It doesn’t even matter at this point if you read this or not. All that matters is the TRAFFIC I receive from you being here. HAHAHAAA.

Ahem. Well, anyway, I guess we might as well get this time waster over with. Here’s a pic in case you don’t have any idea what I’m talking about.

Yay. It’s a picture of tea. Yay. This is a review of tea.

I guess I should start with describing the product or something. In case you haven’t notice the thousand commercials that have been advertising this product, McDonald’s released their own version of Sweet Tea some time last month. The tea itself comes in a special “ICECOOL” container that supposedly layered with a styrofoam of sorts in order to keep your drink “Nice and frosted.” Yeah. Basically it’s a cup. Why does McDonald’s feel the need to give you a different cup than what they serve all their other drinks in? I really have no clue on this one. The tea itself costs 99 cents, so technically it makes it cheaper than their cheapest soft drink (which is a dollar). Just think of all those great things you could be buying after saving a penny. You could:

• Ride the horse at Meijer
• Buy a stick of gum
• ????

• Kill some one by dropping it off the top of the Empire State Building

Yeah. Doesn’t the feeling of saving one cent make you feel all warm and special? Yeah… Okaay. Anyway, let’s move on to the taste aspect. For the most part, McD’s Sweet Tea isn’t bad. However, it is a bit too sugary for my tastes. Now I know it’s SWEET tea, but it is so sweet it almost gets to the point where it is so overbearing that you don’t really even get to taste the tea part. Also, it might have been just me, but I swear the tea had a really weird after taste. I don’t really know what it was, but it definitely tasted kinda icky on the way down.

Comparing McDonald’s Sweet Tea to that of my favorite brand of Iced Tea, Arizona Tea, I feel that for the most part McDonald’s really fails in comparison. Although you do get more tea from McDonald’s in the ounce for ounce category (McD’s gives you 32 ounces, Arizona cans are around 24 ounces), it can be assumed that a good amount of that will be made up of ice (when I got mine, it was easily 35% ice). But as far as the overall taste is concerned, their really is no match. Arizona demonstrates why they are the kings of iced tea. Their Sweet Tea is exceptionally sugary, yet they also blend the tea with it nicely so neither flavor overpowers the other. Not to mention I feel that Arizona’s regular Iced Tea with Lemon beats the crap out of both sweet teas any day.

In the end, McD’s Sweet Tea isn’t a bad deal by any means (with the summer months ahead it may serve to be a nice alternate to that of a soft drink), but overall the drink really leaves you feeling less than satisfied. But then again, maybe I am just being overly critical…

Wow. I can’t believe I just wrote a review on iced tea. Terrible.