{"id":16958,"date":"2014-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=16958"},"modified":"2020-12-28T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T05:18:21","slug":"fast-food-news-mcdonalds-raspberry-sweet-tea-and-diet-sweet-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/03\/fast-food-news-mcdonalds-raspberry-sweet-tea-and-diet-sweet-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"FAST FOOD NEWS &#8211; McDonald&#8217;s Raspberry Sweet Tea and Diet Sweet Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/14147293487\" title=\"View 'McDonald's Raspberry Sweet Tea and Diet Sweet Tea' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"286\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3867\/14147293487_87fb575922.jpg?resize=500%2C286&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"McDonald's Raspberry Sweet Tea and Diet Sweet Tea\" width=\"500\" title=\"McDonald's Raspberry Sweet Tea and Diet Sweet Tea\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the mid-80 degree weather I&#8217;m sitting in as I type this or the sweater I&#8217;m wearing, but I&#8217;d kill for some McDonald&#8217;s Raspberry Sweet Tea or even Diet Sweet Tea right now. What&#8217;s in the Diet Sweet Tea? Only the finest in artificial sweeteners, <a href=http:\/\/www.obesityhelp.com\/forums\/amos\/5247999\/Beware-of-quotDiet-Sweet-Teaquot><\/a>aspartame, sucralose, and acesulfame potassium. There aren&#8217;t any mentions of these sweet teas on the McDonald&#8217;s website, so they&#8217;re probably test items. If you&#8217;ve seen them at a McDonald&#8217;s near you, let us know where in the comments. <i>(Thanks for the photo, James!)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oh, while doing some digging, I found this commercial.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/95909677\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the mid-80 degree weather I&#8217;m sitting in as I type this or the sweater I&#8217;m wearing, but I&#8217;d kill for some McDonald&#8217;s Raspberry Sweet Tea or even Diet Sweet Tea right now. What&#8217;s in the Diet Sweet Tea? Only the finest in artificial sweeteners, aspartame, sucralose, and acesulfame potassium. There aren&#8217;t any mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-food-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18411,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/30\/fast-food-news-mcdonalds-peach-sweet-tea-and-strawberry-sweet-tea\/","url_meta":{"origin":16958,"position":0},"title":"FAST FOOD NEWS: McDonald&#8217;s Peach Sweet Tea and Strawberry Sweet Tea","author":"Marvo","date":"April 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"McDonald's Peach and Strawberry Teas aren't new for some of you in states like North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia because they were available last year, but it's new for those in Kentuckiana. 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