Bubble tea quiz

It’s great stuff, I like green apple myself. It tastes good, and the tapioca balls (I prefer swallowing, not chewing) are a better fit than they sound. I was reluctant to try it after having Orbitz (UGH) but I like it.

Oh, okay. Thanks, yBeayf

It’s not surprising you don’t have it in Japan. It originated in Taiwan, I believe, and it’s spread to places with large numbers of people of Chinese ancestry.

WooHoo! I’m oO Honeydew Oo ! :smiley:

Orbitz are definitely NOT the same thing as bubble tea… not even in the same league!

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Durian bubble tea? Too bad we don’t have a “yuck” smiley here… thank goodness that flavor doesn’t exist as far as I know! (that would be disgusting, although they DO have durian gelato at the local gelato shops here)

My friend Corey was trying this quiz last night. No matter what he put in, it apparently gave him sour apple every single time. I’m going to have to ask him about that in a few minutes… heck, he’s online now.

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Flamsterette_X, that flavor does indeed exist, and is served at the bubble tea place right near my house. They make it with frozen chunks of durian. I love it, and it’s what I usually get.

Thanks for the information… I’m not sure that flavor would sell here. Then again, you never know… my friend Megan likes durian gelato, after all.

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Although I’m not a big fan of the taste of the bubbles, the satraw they come with makes a fantastic peashooter. And you can hit passing cars if you drink it at a sidewalk cafe, which is entertaining for a couple of minutes.

I like watermelon. I never thought of myself as a “macker/mackette”.

Actually, that’s almost exactly what my friend Phil did with some bubble tea pearls when a bunch of us went to Dragon Ball last summer. He decided to shoot them out of his mouth at a brick wall and the sidewalk! :slight_smile:

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Actually, that’s almost exactly what my friend Phil did with some bubble tea pearls when a bunch of us went to Dragon Ball last summer. He decided to shoot them out of his mouth at a brick wall and the sidewalk! :slight_smile:

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Heh. I like your pictorial sig line. Does it symbolize riding your bike to someplace where you can get a martini?

Besides what yBeayf said, taro is also what the Hawaiians make poi from. Poi is the odd-tasting paste served to tourists at a luau, or so I’m told.

Apparently, I am Beef Jerky flavored Bubble Tea. How, um… odd.

Oh, sorry, “oO Beef Jerky Oo”

Beef jerky-flavored bubble tea?! Hmm… Washte, come out if you’re anywhere around. Not sure how well that would go with bubble tea, though.

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Boo!

You rang Flammie?

At the moment I’d settle for a coconut or strawberry summat…

The best tasting flavor of “bubble tea” is plain. I guess that’s “natural”? Milktea is what it’s rightly called. Why do people call them bubbles? They’re not bubbles.

Washte: don’t worry. There’s definitely strawberry bubble tea. In fact, asking a bubble tea place if they have strawberry available is like asking a Chinese restaurant if they serve tea! :slight_smile:

White Lightning, this is my extremely unresearched guess from off the top of my head: the pearls are called “bubbles” because another name for them is “boba.” “Boba” might be too hard for certain segments of the gwei loh population to wrap their tongue around. Therefore, they were caled “bubbles” because it sounded similar enough to the original word. “Pearl” and “bubble” shouldn’t be too hard for most anyone to pronounce, right? :wink:

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Oh, and most places should have coconut-flavored bubble tea. So if Washte’s looking to have both coconut and strawberry, she can have both at one place. Preferably not in the same sitting, since a bubble tea IS pretty filling. (my brother’s friend Adam had two bubble teas in one sitting very recently… I wouldn’t think he could do that, but he did… the thought of that is kinda gross, though)

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