So don’t buy it. If you buy it, you’re telling the store you’re willing to pay that price. Go somewhere else or buy something else. Don’t encourage them.
Or make your own iced tea for even cheaper than the cheapest bottled one and save the plastic waste.
Not to mention Lipton Ice Tea is rubbish. You can make your own for 1/10th of the price, and it’ll taste 10x better.
What are you making your tea out of if it costs €0.50? Gold or something?
My favorite part about purchasing iced tea in the store is that you will have 2 bottles sitting right next to each other. One will contain a product that costs far more and both will cost the same price. The main cost of sweet tea is sugar. No sugar in unsweet tea, just water and tea leaves…
The cost of the sugar is extremely minor compared to the price of bottling, transporting, and vending the tea.
The biggest cost yet is buying and drinking the tea
Preach.
It’s spelled “peach”. But I know what you mean, I really like aspberry tea.
It’s spelled “raspberry”. But I know what you mean, I really like reen tea.
It’s spelled C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
It’s spelled “combo beaker”. But I know what you mean, I really like iced tea.
jesus christ its been a long time since those burned match-end neurons had activity pumped into them
It’s spelled “green”. But I know what you mean, I really like hite tea
It’s spelled “shite”. But i know what you mean, I really like u-erh tea
It’s spelled “green”. But I know what you mean, I really like emon tea.
Mix in some peach herbal tea bags for another 15 cents?
Arizona Ice Tea ftw!
Note the € sign - it’ll be nearly as expensive and you’ll only find 2-3 flavors if you’re lucky (US expat in NL)
Op: Brew your own tea and make your own. Or reduce it by half and add it as a concentrate to fizzy water if you need the bubbles. Also, equal parts sugar and water, low heat in a saucepan until reduced by ⅓-½ and you’ve got sugar syrup. That lasts in the fridge forever, and you can make it as sweet or not as you’d like.
I’m saving this to try later
Use low to medium heat - too hot and you can make the concentrates bitter or crystallized. 😉 The tea concentrate can be kept in the fridge for about a week, but keep it capped.
If you’re using Lipton tea bags then it’s more like 1/100th
Your not paying for the contents anymore. It’s shipping, packaging, advertising and CEO’s expenses your paying for.
CEOs yachts yacht isn’t going to pay for itself!
It gets lonely because he never has time for it 🥺
(Not because he’s busy, it’s just actually kind of a boring thing)
It could though if you hooked it up to an AI and taught it to fish
No. You’re paying for the rent if the probable airport kiosk this photo was taken in.
I’ve cut so many products out of my life in the past few years. They used Covid as an excuse to price gauge and they just never stopped. They’ll keep creeping the price up until sales start to decline then they’ll settle there… for awhile.
Greedflation!
Because as we all know, the thing that changed during the pandemic was that where before greed wasn’t a thing, it is now!
We know greed caused this inflation, because of the correlation between greed varying and the inflation varying.
During the year 2020, greed emerged into humanity, and gave us inflation. It makes perfect sense
/s
They never needed an excuse. All they needed was the lack of competition that we gave them when we forcibly shut down their competitors.
Just so you know - Carrefour is one of the biggest retailers in Europe, they’re French, and have said a giant “Va te faire foutre” to PepsiCo this week -
Fair play to them, that’s great stuff.
Wow, didn’t know that. Bonne nouvelle !
For anyone who didn’t know, Lipton’s readymade beverages, like the one in the picture, are owned and sold by PepsiCo.
Merci pour le partage!
For anyone who didn’t know, Lipton is owned by PepsiCo.
Water is the best
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Good news! This drink is mostly water by volume!
💦 💦
Good! That means less people drinking sugar!
I’ve seen cheaper drinks at ski field cafes… It makes sense for them to be pricey there, since they have to bring it up a mountain, but what’s this places excuse…?
Inner city monopoly
Maybe it’s in an airport within a ski field?
Psst hey kids, you wanna get high?
Gom Syrup 50/50 mix sugar (caster is easiest) or honey (don’t hate me France) & boiling water Black tea 2 grams per 8oz water at 70c increase tea a little more if adding ice right away Fruit juice or purée to taste or go Eurobeat and not bother
Put in a reusable container, stop supporting nonsense things you can do yourself
Do the French dislike honey?
I refered to it as gom syrup
Least incomprehensible recipe
Was this picture taken in Ireland OP?
That’s quite likely since the Euro sign is only placed before the amount in English, Dutch, Irish and Maltese. The UK obviously goes out since they use £
Source: https://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm
the Euro sign is only placed before the amount in English, Dutch, Irish and Maltese
While true, on pricing labels it’s put in front of the numbers in other countries as well. My unresearched guess is to avoid tampering with a pen when a currency sign is blocking the space to put additional numbers in front.
Also insanely unhealthy to consume stuff like this on a day-to-day basis
But it says “low in calories”! 🙄
Of course it is. You’re not going to consume all 15 servings in that bottle at once I hope!
If it was in a glass bottle maybe I would buy it. Plastic pagaking should be more expensive IMO
The bottle doesn’t change the ingredients
That’s mostly true now that we’re using BPA-free plastic
Please tell me that was at the airport
That was my thought. I spent the last 48 hours in various airports, and this briefly looked normal to me.
Let them go bankrupt
Is it me, or are those only about half full? I can’t tell if the label is transparent or opaque. 😳
Looks more half empty to me
The labels are like a shrink wrap, it makes it look lighter or empty starting at the bottom of the wrap in this picture.
“Ice” tea drives me nuts - it’s iced!
No, no. This is literally steeped ice cubes.
It’s not though is it? Can you really consider this product tea? And it definitely does not contain any ice. Therefore the product is named ice tea. If you make tea at home and put ice inside? Voila you got yourself some iced tea.
Honestly I’m surprised the EU even lets this be called tea. It really should be “tea flavoured beverage” at best in the same way they won’t let “American cheese” (the Kraft singles stuff) be called cheese, no?
Iced Tea is only really a thing in this context in the EU. Most of the people I know (myself included) never really made the connection and were surprised to find out it’s supposed to be real tea on ice, hence the name. We call it ice tea without really thinking about it, just like no one ever thought “I bet they call this coca-cola because it used to be made with cocaine”.
Honestly don’t even think it tastes like tea. To me it just tastes like “Ice Tea”.
