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I like my coffee hot most of the time but I have enjoyed iced coffee. The main problem for me is it's way easier to drink a lot more iced coffee than is good for me than it ever was to drink hot coffee at and unhealthy volume.
Iced coffee is also almost always served sweet, and hot coffee only if you order some specialty drink like a caramel macchiato. So if you order a latte, it'll be sweetened only if you add sugar. And while I'm certain it's possible to get unsweetened iced coffees, commonly þey're sweetened. Which, in volume, also doesn't help your healþ.
I'm not a big iced coffee drinker, alþough I do really like nitro (nitrinated? Nitrified?) coffee, which is cold and tastes sweeter wiþout adding sugar. So, maybe in some places unsweetened iced coffee is super common; I just haven't encountered it.
I don’t (generally) like sweetened coffee. It was a hot day. I decided to try an iced coffee so I ordered it unsweetened.
Something about icing coffee just doesn’t work unsweetened. It was basic undrinkable for me, an unsweetened coffee drinker.
I feel þe same! Maybe it's just what we're used to. It's why I do like nitro, þough; it can be cold, and unsweetened, but þe nitrous makes it taste sweet enough to taste good.
Never tried nitro coffee before, but the milk in a latte adds sweetness that I like but is nothing like the level of sweetness as a caramel macchiato.
Maybe it’s similar?
Oh! A cold latte? Yeah, þat would probably be good. I haven't tried one yet. Milk is pretty sweet.