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I wanted to see what this entailed, looked up “shiba bubble tea” and found a bubble tea/restaurant pretty close to me that is Shiba Inu themed and looks like something you’d find in Japan. 😮
I’m gonna go check this place the fuck out.
It’s like the first time in any restaurant or food place where you’re not familiar with the food:
Ask the server what they recommend.
Then say okay
Ive never built up the courage to try even a single bubble tea, partly because its stupid expensive, but mostly because im worried about saying the wrong thing and having people think im strange. Like if you asked for extra sugar on your hot dog or something.
Finding that there’s mad purists arguing about what is or isnt doesnt make this any easier.
Tbh I’m not even sure what bubble tea is. Bubbles, yep. Tea, yep. Tea with bubbles? Have you put washing up liquid in it? Why is it bubbly?
The “bubbles” refers to the little edible tapioca balls at the bottom.
The name started as “bo ba”, the Chinese name for the tapioca pearls, and the west turned it into “bubble”. No idea what the original Chinese means, could just be bubble.
It’s often a sweeter milk tea (though pretty much anything goes these days)
Well the good news is that a Korean corn dog stand will happily add extra sugar and not find the request strange. I guess the lesson is you just have to find where you fit in lol.
The second good news is that food vendors are typically quite happy when you know nothing because they typically like to share new experiences with people.
Isn’t ketchup pretty much just red sugar gel?
It varies a lot. From sweet banana, to tomato based, to the original fish sauce.
On my continent it also has tomato and vinegar lol
Hence it does not belong on tube steak
tbh the worst someone will think is you’re a dumb American, which there are a lot of. They won’t single you out or care at all.
Even if they do, it’ll just be a gossip sesh with coworkers to pass the time and nothing more
at least that’s how it is at my grocery store job. The only things I can remember are
- an Irish man with a funny accent
- someone who wanted double bagged paper for some reason
- and some lady who stole a baby bottle and when the toddler picked it up and yelled “MOMMY YOU FOROGOT THIS!! 😃” nobody said a word about
- also someone who tried to hide an antibiotic under dog food which I accidentally uncovered when scanning the dog food. When it rung up it was $25 and I felt sooo bad
I can (potentially) explain the double bagged paper. Growing up in the South that was the de-facto cooling rack, no wire racks or wax paper like you see today. They were cut open, laid on any flat surface, them cookies or cakes or what have you were laid on them to cool. They’d wick away moisture or grease and be easy clean up.
Free with groceries and if they were double bagged you had enough for a double batch of chocolate chip cookies while also usually guaranteeing (usually) the bag wouldn’t split from condensation or something before you got home.
that’s actually super cool, that’s a neat piece of history I didn’t know about
Personally not a fan (don’t like the taste of teas), but many I know are. Order a basic one the first time however it says on the board, ask for a suggestion saying you never tried this before, ask any other questions you have they will generally answer, like “What do other people do with/put in this” you will either love it or feel you wasted money. Either way it will be a new experience. Oh, don’t worry about what others think of your choices (so long as you are not hurting anyone that is) you do you and enjoy, purists will just bring you down
Just order online so then you don’t have to interact with anyone at all except getting it from counter.
There’s mad purists about everything. Don’t let them prevent you from casually enjoying life.
Lol.
Italians can suck my short toe. They didn’t even come up with the pizza, it was italian heritage immigrants. Same thing for people who complain about deep dish pizza (which is really just a weird lasagna/casserole) not being pizza.
Which ‘Italian heritage immigrants’? Are you saying pizza is an American invention?
Not OP, but maybe they’re alluding to the fact that tomatoes were exclusively native to the Americas, so pizza in Italy never even had tomatoes before 500 years ago. A quick Google search shows that the first modern pizzas came from Naples about 300 years ago. So no, not American, but not possible without moving tomatoes from the Americas.
Italian immigrants brought pizza to America and it caught on.
Chili peppers are native to Americas too, by that logic Thai, Indian, Korean, Ethiopian and Szechuan cuisines are American?
No? Like I said, Italian immigrants brought pizza to America. They didn’t come to America and then invent pizza. Trade routes brought chili peppers to those areas and they did new and interesting things with them to incorporate them into their cuisine in fundamental ways. I’m just saying that those dishes are recent, not completely coopted.
America doesn’t even have pizza! They use the word to refer to some kind of large open-faced oven-baked sandwiches.
You talking bout the little scissors?
This has bugged me for twenty years.
“Bubble tea” refers to tea that is mixed in a shaker, creating a small layer of bubbles when it is served.
“Bubble tea with pearls” is the one with tapioca pearls in the bottom. Milk tea is tea made with milk.
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works the above comment answers your question.
TIL. I’ve literally never seen the first drink you’re describing. (I’m in the USA)
Early on when it was coming into the US shops made the distinction, but Americans just sort of conflated the two. Makes it confusing if you want bubble tea with jelly and not pearls.
They’re talking about bubble foam tea. Sure that was a thing but at least in any part of America I’ve been in, boba tea and bubble tea from the start was the tapioca pearl drink.
Some people get this purist notion that things can only ever be one thing and screech if someone uses a term differently.
somebody blows bubbles into the tea with a pipette, that is the serbian way.
So… What are the bubbles then?
buckshot my friend
Maybe he uses carbonated water?
Serbia appears to have normal bubble tea places.
What’s normal here? With or without ‘bubbles’ ?
I meant the kind one sees in many countries, with tapioca pearls, and often milk. Rose petal tea is apparently one of the local variations.
hookah
Could be popping boba [edit: in my area they call the popping boba just boba and the traditional boba jelly, I did not realize that wasn’t universal]
Boba IS tapioca
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