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[oakenguy]

There was a seeing eye dog on the subway last night wearing a sign that read, "Do Not Feed or Flirt With Me". Which I thought was sad because, really, the dogs most likely to flirt with him can't read English.

I tried my first boba tea this lunchtime--it was milk honey tea with floating blue-black tapioca balls in it, for the record. It was every bit as nasty as I thought it would be, and now it feels like the boba ball is caught in the back of my throat. But they didn't taste like the oversized tadpole eggs they look like, so I still feel ahead of the game.

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[rantarn.livejournal.com]

And just how do you know what oversized tadpole eggs taste like? :)

[malterre.livejournal.com]

I have some funny seeing-eye dog stories. ask me this weekend.

Earl Gray or Irish breakfast, Oolong green or Arabic Almond. I am NOT open to new teas and you have beautifully described why.
*Scrunching face at desk in disgust*

[empheliath.livejournal.com]

1) What is boba tea?
2) Why would someone put tapioca balls of any color in tea?
3) I've thought since elementary school that tapioca balls look like frog's eggs, too.
4) The fact of number three never stopped me from thoroughly enjoying eating tapioca pudding. Yum....

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

1) Boba tea, also known as bubble tea, is an Asian import. (I would've thought "tenticle monsters" would know all about it. ;) ) The tapioca balls, made from a type of sweet potato, are called boba.
2) Well, I......okay, see, there's this.....I've got nothin'.

[empheliath.livejournal.com]

Tenticle monsters are not well travelled. They rarely get closer to Asia than Sicily, despite their tendency to wear Mandarin-style clothing.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

1) What is boba tea?
2) Why would someone put tapioca balls of any color in tea?

And you've asked the question I have been quietly asking the universe since bubble teas (as we call them out here) caught on last year.

I completely don't get it. Then again, I'm an all-black, all-the-time tea drinker, who eschews froo-froo additions with the exception of Starbuck's chai.

[empheliath.livejournal.com]

Then again, I'm an all-black, all-the-time tea drinker

Here, here! (Or is it Hear, Hear!?) I'm an Earl Grey or English Breakfast girl myself. I only drink herbal teas when I'm sick, for the medicinal benefit.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

. I only drink herbal teas when I'm sick, for the medicinal benefit.

I can't even drink them when I'm sick. Although, I'm having an exception foisted on me of ginger, lemon, and honey as a preventive tisane.

[amare.livejournal.com]

I have a very deep and primal fear of tapioca balls.

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

I've seen that dog. Or one with the same sign. :) Saw him on the red line one morning... very nice dog. I talked to him anyways... but mostly just body language... 'cause well, hey, his owner couldn't tell ;)

[mistypen.livejournal.com]

I sooooo love bubbletea, I am addicted to it, where did you try it? My friend calls the tapoica balls evil gummy bears.

[freyja.livejournal.com]

*gasp* no bubble tea for oaken??!??!

i fell in love with that tea the first time i was subjected to it. mmmmm. so where'd you get it?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

A bubble tea shop has opened up just a few doors down from me, right at the Mass Ave & Boylston Street intersection! They have nice grilled sandwiches, too. Now if I can just get them to hold the bubbles...