National Iced Tea Day: Starbucks, Teavana Offering Deals

National Iced Tea Day is Friday, June 10, and Starbucks and Teavana are offering specials to mark the occasion.

At participating Starbucks locations, you can buy one freshly brewed Teavana Shaken Iced Tea and get one free.

At participating Teavana stores, you can register for a chance to instantly win free Teavana loose leaf tea for a year. Customers also have a chance to instantly win a free 22-fluid-ounce iced tea beverage and 20 percent, 30 percent, 40 percent or 50 percent off any full-priced item.

You can also visit Teavana.com to get $25 off any $60 purchase, along with free shipping.

Teavana has locations in Cumberland Mall, Town Center, Perimeter Mall, Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza.

Starbucks is ... well, you know ... pretty much everywhere.

Next to water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world. In 2014, Americans consumed more than 80 billion servings of tea, or more than 3.60 billion gallons. Approximately 85 percent of the tea consumed in America is iced. Ready-to-drink iced tea has spiked over the past 10 years with sales estimated to be more than $5.2 billion.

In 2003, a Georgia state representative from Atlanta, John Noel, introduced a House bill proposing that all Georgia restaurants that serve tea be required to serve sweet tea. It was done apparently as an April Fool’s Day joke. Noel, now president of Energy + Environment, is said to have acknowledged that the bill was an attempt to bring humor to the Legislature but wouldn't mind if it became law.

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