Bubble tea?

[Ray Travez]

I discovered the existence of bubble tea about a week ago- there's even a shop selling it in the cultural backwater I grudgingly inhabit. Have you tried bubble tea? I might give it a go, though the price strikes me as steep for a drink that isn't psychoactive.

[Oosp]

Love that stuff. I go to Bubbleology whenever I can get to that London. Some mad decent ones in Dublin Town also. Bubble me up!

[king_tubby]

It's dreadful stuff, and it was 15 years ago when they last tried to push it on to us.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Peter Kay considers rewriteputting it on a £30 t-shirt

[Dex Sawash]

Easy af to make your own boba (wanking thread)

[idunnosomename]

ABSOLUTE SHITE FOR BIG FUCKIN BABIES

[dissolute ocelot]

Meh. I had some in Toronto about 15 years ago and have never felt the urge to repeat. If you pour Lipton's fruit-flavored iced tea into your Rice Krispies and milk, I think you get a similar effect. Or if you have a black market source of Sugar Puffs, they're probably better.

I know someone who bought the ingredients to make it at home, which came in gigantic jars and filled most of her fridge. You get flavoured syrup and balls and then just add regular tea (that you've painstakingly chilled) and the milk of your favourite animal or plant. Again, why bother?

They're not even real bubbles.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

You should not have to chew a beverage.

[madhair60]

i like it, don't have it very often but it tastes nice :)

[Icehaven]

I've seen the shops but as I don't like tea it's never interested me. Is it literally just fizzy tea?

[dissolute ocelot]

Even more annoyed now. I thought the bubbles were the seeds of something, like softened wheatberries or whatever, but apparently they're a mix of tapioca flour, water, and sugar, made into a paste and shaped into bubbles. You're basically putting balls of cookie dough in your tea, you fools.

I've seen the shops but as I don't like tea it's never interested me. Is it literally just fizzy tea?

It's not fizzy. It just has bits in it that superficially resemble bubbles (if you've never seen a bubble).

[buttgammon]

Love that stuff. I go to Bubbleology whenever I can get to that London. Some mad decent ones in Dublin Town also. Bubble me up!

It's something I'd only get very rarely but we're blessed with them in Dublin. My favourite is one of the longer running ones on Parnell Street near the luas stop, which does nice hot tea as well, but there's also a good one on South Anne Street which does decent sushi rolls too.

[LurkMcGee]

When I visited Montreal it seemed like a lot of people had one in their hand and the places were dime a dozen compared to just one I know of in the middle of Swansea.

I had a mango flavoured one in the cool Thai restaurant near my mate's flat out there and it was alright, I guess. The bubble ball things were rather odd I thought.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

I went on a very awkward and bad tinder date with a woman who suggested we go to one of these places. The sensation of biting into those weird synthetic balls was almost as uncomfortable as the actual date but not quite. That is my first and last ever experience of having a bubble tea

[BlodwynPig]

Used to get one with my lunchtime Canadian-Iranian curry when i was over in Canada. Fantastic contrast. Didn't help my diabetes, so best i packed it in. But good, cosy memories

[Oosp]

It's something I'd only get very rarely but we're blessed with them in Dublin. My favourite is one of the longer running ones on Parnell Street near the luas stop, which does nice hot tea as well, but there's also a good one on South Anne Street which does decent sushi rolls too.

Ooh, good call

[touchingcloth]

Mulligatawny for idiots.

[Oosp]

Mulligatawny for idiots.

Wow. Incredibly racist against wherever bubble tea is from

[Icehaven]

Even more annoyed now. I thought the bubbles were the seeds of something, like softened wheatberries or whatever, but apparently they're a mix of tapioca flour, water, and sugar, made into a paste and shaped into bubbles. You're basically putting balls of cookie dough in your tea, you fools.
It's not fizzy. It just has bits in it that superficially resemble bubbles (if you've never seen a bubble).

It sounds disgusting, like breakfast cereal with tea instead of milk.

[Brian Freeze]

Didn't help my diabetes,

Absofuckinglutely fucking fuck loads of sugar in them isn't there? Or are some of them "different/better"?

Our kids want one but we have seen them after a can of Iron Brew and dread the consequences.

Fake edit: autocorrect wanted to put - dread the conservatives

[The Mollusk]

Had some jungle bubble tea once whilst exploring the Amazon which is just sucking acai berries out of a diarrhoeic monkey's arsehole. I asked how the berries got up there in the first place and the tour guide just said "you know what monkeys are like!!" and I replied that I do, I do know what monkeys are like.

[checkoutgirl]

Love that stuff. I go to Bubblearoundtown and occasionally Bubbleupyourbutt whenever I can get to that London.

[TrenterPercenter]

- Would you like frog spawn with your tea sir?
- yes please, I enjoy the texture of a prisoners wanking jar in my drink

[Oosp]

Had some jungle bubble tea once whilst exploring the Amazon which is just sucking acai berries out of a diarrhoeic monkey's arsehole. I asked how the berries got up there in the first place and the tour guide just said "you know what monkeys are like!!" and I replied that I do, I do know what monkeys are like.

They don't like it up 'em

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

If you hand someone a cup of this, can you legitimately say, "Suck my balls" to them?

[The Mollusk]

They don't like it up 'em

No, that's the thing - they do. That's what they're like.

[touchingcloth]

Even more annoyed now. I thought the bubbles were the seeds of something, like softened wheatberries or whatever, but apparently they're a mix of tapioca flour, water, and sugar, made into a paste and shaped into bubbles. You're basically putting balls of cookie dough in your tea, you fools.
It's not fizzy. It just has bits in it that superficially resemble bubbles (if you've never seen a bubble).

Dumplings for cunts.

[Vodkafone]

No, that's the thing - they do. That's what they're like.

Loving this little exchange on the cookdandbombd forum

[All Surrogate]

you're supposed to chew apparently

[Butchers Blind]

So, they're not actually bubbles? False advertising, innit?