Something I havenât seen reputed on before: back when I taught summer school in a building without air conditioning, we used to have Coke or Diet Coke with breakfast because it was too hot for tea or coffee, even first thing in the morning. Some of us noticed the Diet Coke would make us feel spaced out for about an hour after we drank it. Not sure if it was a reaction to the aspartame (which gives me hives now) or something else.
And they have bad aftertaste.
Time for sweet tea or iced coffee.
Bière dâĂŠpinette. The real stuff prevents scurvy. 
Neither of which are terribly Canadian. Iced coffee has caught on since, but iced tea (sweet tea was and still largely is unknown) back then was made from mixing powder in water, like Kool-Aid, and often didnât have caffeine in it.
Ah. Proper mid-century North American fare.
âIced teaâ in Canada is almost exactly completely unlike tea.
I remember (well, as best as I remember anything, so not really ârememberâ so much as âremember the storyâ) going to the States as a kid, and ordering an iced tea with my food court meal. When the lady saw I had Canadian money (it was a near-to-a-border town, and at that time anyone was prepared to do exchange. This was back before passports were needed), she warned me with great concern that it was âreal teaâ. I guess they had more than a few Canadians shocked by the taste.
I told her that was exactly why I wanted it.
I grew up drinking tea â my grandparents liked it strong enough to melt the spoon. Canadian iced tea wasnât worthy of the name tea (and in most cases still isnât). Itâs just one of the few non-carbonated options.
Sweet tea, however, is often made too sweet. Yeah, I said it. I want tea, not tea-coloured sugar.
The scary part is of you mix it just right, you can dissolve the tea granules but make most of the sugar fall to the bottom of the glass. Makes it less sweet.
âŚIsnât this pretty much exactly what all the fuss in Cuba was about?
Or Tonic Tensor Tympani Syndrome. (also disputed)
Itâs debatable exactly whatâs going on, and how noise causes hearing problems, but thereâs no dispute that noise can cause hyperacusis and hyperacusis can cause other problems.
Yes, except in Cuba it often happened when people were trying to sleep, and there werenât supposed to be any microphones around.
OH GOOD
Last time I asked about this, I was refused revaccination because they said it wasnât as necessary as previously thought.
I know science discovers new things as we go along, but it gets frustrating as a patient.
This is how I made it in a fast food place popular in Alabama for its tea: 1 1/2 C sugar to one coffee pot full of tea.
That sounds like a spoon could stand up in it! (Blech!)