Lebanese Mint Tea vs Granizado de Limón (Spanish Lemon Slushie)

These two drinks share mint and lemon but use them in opposite ways. In the Lebanese Mint Tea, a whole bunch of fresh mint, stems included, steeps with rinsed green tea leaves and sugar, producing a hot, sweet, herbal infusion poured from a height for a light foam, with lemon only as an optional slice on the side. The Granizado de Limón reverses the emphasis: fresh lemon juice and simple syrup are frozen and repeatedly scraped into icy, fluffy flakes, while mint appears merely as an optional garnish. One is a warming, aromatic sip; the other, a bright, sweet-tart frozen slush.