To say never be tempted by Bubbleology

[Smarmydrippings]

I didn't buy it. My DD came home and gave it to me.

It's messed with my head. It's a drink of giant frog sporn, but a thousand times worse when you sucked it up in your mouth.
It not even like it has a flavour.
I was having a truely lovely day until this ruined it.

Well we had months of DS and his friends hot-footing it to the top floor of Harvey Nics after school just to get Bubblology. He once bought me one and I thought it was blue. Now it's on the decline and "Shake Shack" is on the rise, I gather? Also the ice cream sliced like wafers and rolled.

Sorry vile, not blue (though you can get blue ones, I'm sure).

G1itterati, I’m still miffed with Shake Shack for choosing to incinerate my burger just because I was pregnant. Really, the woman who took my order was a mother, so made a decision for me. 😬
Their crimped fries are also awful.
I would love one of their regular (medium) burgers right now though.

YADNBU. I had one once. The texture was weird but the flavour was minging! We had to queue for ages, not sure why we bothered!

What is it? Forgive my ignorance, I live on a rock in the North Atlantic and we don't even have Tesco, never mind weird bubble thingys.

Shake Shack? Wow that’s v NY circa 2010

I had shakeshack on saturday, the fries were realky nice. I also like bubble tea

Is this bubble tea? Popular in far east??

Theaveragewife
Shakeshack charge more in £ in uk than they do in $ in New York.

It's tapioca. Enough said.

You think that texture is weird? Try konjac noodles. Very odd mouthfeel.

I hadn’t noticed bruffin either way massively overpriced grease only good for mopping up a hangover

Never been tempted by the weird bubbles, but what everyone should really try, is a bacon and salted caramel from milkshake from Five Guys. Yes.

Wat is it

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea

Chewy Tapioca Balls!

Is that the same as bubble tea?
If so, It's very popular round here < student land >
I try to keep up < old gimmer > but have to admit that the one I tried was the second worse thing I've ever had in my mouth. Not envy.

I was given a free large one by a bored looking man behind the counter of a bubble tea place in our very quiet town after I asked what it was. The answer was vile even my children who like disgusting drinks wouldn't touch it. It was gone the next time I went there so I guess no one likes them.

We had some the other weekend, the shops scared me to we got a mix in a Chinese supermarket. it was the sweetest thing I have ever tasted. Disgusting!
I wondered if the flavours in the shop would make it better?

I had a cocktail recently with that frogspawn stuff in it. I quite liked it, maybe it was the alcohol

The thing they loved in LA and I'm sure will be here very soon is the cupcake vending machine in the street. There's about 20 different cakes and I think you can customise them. They come out in mini boxes 24/7. Surprised it's taking so long for someone to do that here.

It's hard to be more explicit tbh.
Yes to giant tapioca ( very not )
I'm extremely shocked to hear people enjoy it. Much less seek it out.

I finished for the strange fascination of awful and wrong.

Ugh no its like tapioca in milk. The DC's came home gleefully clutching a durian fruit one and I've banned durian fruit from the house as a result.

Haha, love your description.

You all sound so culturally sheltered! Far East?! Do people actually say that out loud?

Bubble tea is amazing. Try taro milk tea next time you need a sugar hit. Definitely not any sweeter than a maple salted caramel popcorn Nutella milkshake.

Sorry OP, but giant frog sporn is a brilliant description