Is bubble tea a memefood?

>>9315162
Yes.

>>9315162
What do you mean by memefood?

i hate boba. responsible for every asian college girl becoming fat.

>Is bubble tea a memefood?

No, it is a memedrink.

It's a meme but it's a good meme

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>>9315288
Are you talking shit about Boba?

>>9315162
It's a bunch of sugar and fat, but it's also "just tea tee hee", just like Starbucks milkshakes are "just coffee". People want all that empty calorie shit, but they don't want to feel like they're having it.

>>9315367
>Sugar and fat
What is it exactly? Gelatin?

Taro milk tea is optimal choice. I await the day taro becomes more commonplace in the West. The popularity of matcha gives me hope

>>9315377
a little bit of tea with a heap of sugar syrup, condensed milk, and tapioca pearls

>>9315162
Have you been in a coma for the last 5 years?

>>9315379
>buy a taro root
>expecting it to be purple and sweet
>its white and nearly flavorless
>ask /ck/ how to activate my taro
>they tell me I need to steam it
>do so
>it turns into a slimy potato

Your meme flavor is a lie.

>>9315405
It's just a source of starch to thicken stuff. The sweetness comes from sugar isolate.

>>9315388
5 years? More like 15 years.

>>9315162
Is it making a comeback? I thought the fad died out years ago.

>>9315379
taro is fucking fantastic but comes second to honeydew
> sweet vs sweet and refreshing

>>9315481
its just as popular as ever in most big cities as far as i can tell

>>9315162
How long before Starbucks starts serving bubble tea?

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>>9315384
>a little bit of tea with a heap of sugar syrup, condensed milk, and tapioca pearls
Nope.

There are fruit slushes, jasmine green tea with no sweetener at all, assam tea, lychee tea, iced coffee, fruit juice and tea, tea and milk, so basically the only thing in common about boba tea offerings are the tapioca pearls, which is like a serving of rice. It's a meaningless starch serving that is equivalent to like 60 calories.

I had really bad bubble tea in Vienna. McDonalds had the poppin' balls which is a waste of time.

>>9315288
I wish the Asians girls by me were fat(ter).

Chubby Asians are my fetish but they don't exist here despite us having lots of Koreans.

>>9315535
out of curiosity what makes chubby asians attractive to you?

>>9315377
milk+tea+sugar syrup+pearls

Easy to make, the popular ones in Taiwan adds in flavoured powders into the drink like Taro, Chocolate and others.

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>>9315535
I like when girls are soft, also chubby girls tend to be less stuck up personality wise.

Asians have cute faces, I prefer cute as an aesthetic more than sexy/mature/etc.

>>9315535
My adopted Chinese stepsister became a basic bitch and got a double chin. Now she's a Cheeto Benito apologist.

>>9315162
i don't care it's good

>>9315591
Send me any nudes on her phone please.

>>9315591
did you ever touch her boobs?

>>9315162
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/reader-center/our-readers-call-us-out-over-bubble-tea-they-are-right.html

http://archive.is/2kug4

We published a feature article on Thursday about bubble tea becoming “mainstream,” which drew criticism from readers on two fronts.

Some thought that the article read as though we had just discovered bubble tea. (In fact, The Times published an article in December proclaiming bubble tea “so 2002.”)

Other readers thought we described the drink, which was created in Taiwan, as strange and alien, and especially took us to task for the use of the word “blobs.”

This is how one reader, Bo Hee Kim, very thoughtfully put it:

The language used in this article, from ‘exotic’ to ‘Far East’ and the unappealing nature of the word ‘blob’ to describe a drink well-known to many Asians and Asian-Americans unintentionally alienates this population from reading this article. It highlights otherness rather than uniqueness, defines familiarity through a nondiverse lens, and for me evokes the unpleasant feelings of being the kid in a nondiverse neighborhood bringing ‘weird’ lunches to school.

The reader complaints have merit. In retrospect, we wish we had approached the topic differently (if at all). There may be a story in the expansion of bubble tea businesses in the United States, but there is no denying the drink has been around for quite a while. And we regret the impression left by some of the original language in the article, which we have revised in light of the concerns.

We thank our readers for sharing their views.

>>9315576
Disgusting

In 2005 along with pho

>>9315748
The differencw between bubble tea and pho is that pho is actually good

>>9315162
Only a memefood if you're white. I've been drinking the stuff for the last 10 years or so.

>>9315361
Kek

>>9315516
I think if they wanted to do it they would've done it by now. It's not like it's some obscure trend they haven't picked up on yet, I think they just aren't interested in trying to compete with the sheer variety of flavours bubble tea places sell. Maybe they'll stick tapioca pearls in a frap or some shit though

>>9315939
bubble tea tastes fine you contrarian piece of shit

>>9315162
It tasted like burnt rubber when i had it. Not the pearls either, but the drink.

>>9315162
From boba? Yes. Try it from a place that serves it as an accessory to the rest of the menu and it's actually damn good. Place near my old college outdoes Boba in every category except freindliness.

>>9315162
I'm told the "bubbles" are made of bubblegum and ain't good for you. Used to be they were made of more natural stuff, but it got popular and so industrialized versions pumped them full of shit you wouldn't normally. But that's kind of everything, ain't it?

>>9315162

There's no such word as memefood.