Why does everyone use Coca-Cola in Long Island Ice Tea?
This drink is traditionally topped with coke just to give it the color of iced tea, and for a kick of flavor & carbonation. It’s also garnished with a lemon slice to look like iced tea. One theory suggests this drink was invented during prohibition to cover up the consumption of alcohol, therefore calling the drink “iced tea”. The drink is sweet, so it sort of tastes like sweetened tea, but there is no actual tea in it. There are a lot of variations of the drink substituting certain ingredients for others (ex. Long Beach Iced Tea uses cranberry juice instead of cola).
