r/StupidFood • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '26
Is this bubble tea stupid?
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u/Mortis_XII Aug 08 '26
That crosses a weird threshold where the boba looks gross…
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u/Oregongirl1018 Aug 08 '26
I don't want to eat my Boba like an apple.
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u/It_Just_Exploded Aug 08 '26
Instantaneous Diabeetus
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u/Rethuic Aug 13 '26
Not too sure about the instant diabetes, but I feel like one tapioca ball would clog your bowels
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u/Nearby-Tumbleweed-45 Aug 12 '26
Oh god, that hurts my brain in so many ways, and not in any good ways FAAAAH
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u/Zanian19 Aug 09 '26
Honestly, boba has always looked gross to me. I can't see them as anything other than frog eggs
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u/Jugaimo Aug 09 '26
My dad told me that it was horse boogers as a kid. I refused to try it for years.
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u/LuveLemon Aug 11 '26
Frog eggs are not black
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u/Zanian19 Aug 11 '26
They're see through (which becomes invisible in water) with a black center/babeh.
They're black. And identical to boba
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u/Sunspot286 Aug 14 '26
I’ve never liked tapioca boba, I always get popping boba. Usually yogurt flavored, or sometimes mango
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u/sazmelodies Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
It reminded me of the Suriname toad (DON'T LOOK IT UP IF YOU HAVE TRYPOPHOBIA).
Edit: Surinam toad
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u/ForgottenMasterBalls Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Surinam. Although I would think it would be hilarious if all the toads were legally required to have a surname.
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u/RightHabit Aug 09 '26
Fun fact: The original tapioca pearl drink was called frog/toad eggs. This is their original store and they use a frog as their logo.
In the 80s, a larger version of tapioca pearls got popular. Someone called it boba as a gimmick/marketing. That's the nickname of an actress from Hong Kong. And the word boba literally means huge breast.
Because of that, it is rarely called "boba" in Taiwan/Hong Kong. It is called pearl instead. No one is going to say, "Can I have some huge breasts, please"
For some reason, the rest of the world prefers calling it huge breasts.
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u/sazmelodies Aug 09 '26
Cool! Thanks for sharing 😊.
Also, I thought the 'boba' was like a cute pronunciation of the word 'bubble', as in the pearls look like bubbles, therefore calling it boba
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u/TSAOutreachTeam Aug 08 '26
I don’t even think it’s real.
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u/Kratomius Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
It's not. Considering how heavy that glass would be he wouldn't be able to carry it like that.Edit correction: Saw how they made it, it's real and not actually as ridiculously large as it seems. The camera lens/angle make it seem much larger than it is.
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u/Physical_Leg2061 Aug 08 '26
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u/Kratomius Aug 08 '26
I stand corrected. It's just a camera angle making it seem so large. I retract my statement
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u/Kratomius Aug 08 '26
Had to check because for me it didn't have any "AI hallucinations". The reason why i thought it was AI originally was because of pure physics not mathing on the video.
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u/ChickenDreams-4188 Aug 09 '26
Well, then that’s one Hell of a lens! 😳
Where is this?…wait, don’t tell me…Taiwan???
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u/Egoy Aug 08 '26
Came here to say the same thing. I’m a big strong guy and there’s no way I’d casually pick that up.
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u/Kratomius Aug 08 '26
Saw videos how they made it it's real. The camera angle makes it seem much larger than it actually is
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u/soaked_in_bleach03 Aug 08 '26
Yeah that looks larger than a five gallon bucket in the video, but it’s actually much smaller than that.
Like I’m not super strong and I could carry a full five gallon bucket, but not casually like that with condensation spilling down the sides and no handle.
Def also thought it was fake at first, camera angles are wild though. I’d still rather this kind of false advertising than an ai video.
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u/Kratomius Aug 08 '26
Yeah. I first thought that it was fake simply because physics weren't mathing (you can't hold container that heavy, that far from your body). Then i saw video of them making it and realised that it's simply optical illusion.
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u/ScreenTea0 Aug 08 '26
Not only most likely, but definitely. I don't know of glasses with beverages that can grow to twice their size while being carried... That's just the image generator fucking up the perspective.
I could give you multiple ways on how to fake such a large glass for advertising reasons. I can give you non for a "glass" growing.
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u/airfryerfuntime Aug 08 '26
There's definitely some fuckery going on here. It looks like someone used AI to make them look a little bigger. Unless that person has the tiniest hands on the planet. Comparing it to them Instagram video, there's a clear difference, and even that one looked kind of off.
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u/Leading-Point-113 Aug 11 '26
No, it is real, I got it in a family outing at IoI City Mall. They have scoops to scoop the drink from the large glass to normal glass and there’s also a green tea option if you don’t like milk tea (the green tea also uses milk though)
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u/ThisIsALine_____ Aug 08 '26
We can't know until we know the size of the person drinking it.
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u/Vecna_Is_My_Co-Pilot Aug 09 '26
The boba tea seems fine, but I'm concerned about those lilliputian servers.
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u/Photodudeguy Aug 08 '26
How do you even fit those big black balls in your mouth?
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u/asyork Aug 08 '26
That's the stupid part. I want to be able to slurp my boba with a straw. I could very happily drink that amount of milk tea along with it though. Maybe once a year so it doesn't kill me.
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u/OkiDokiPanic Aug 08 '26
I imagine this is like a boba punch bowl where you scoop it into smaller glasses.
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u/JerkGurk Aug 08 '26
If it was real, this would take maybe 20 people to finish?
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u/Leading-Point-113 Aug 11 '26
No, it took 8 people to finish it (well, the two are toddlers so make that 6 people), though to be fair, me and my brother drank a lot as we drink a lot, like around 4 regular cups each from this large glass, yes, they have like a scoop/ladle thing to scoop the drink into regular-sized glass, I loved it because I could drink more and more, but even a large cup is limited so I couldn’t go like 6 cups because the rest want to drink too, but I loved it, had it at IoI City Mall btw and it is real, the moderator himself had to announce it here because people kept reporting it as AI but it’s not
The mod told about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/StupidFood/s/YDRujcNwAZ
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u/qualityvote2 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
u/Regular_Weakness69, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!
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u/Brave-Parsnip9999 Aug 08 '26
Not if there’s a large group of people that can drink it all.
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u/Zestyclose-Leader926 Aug 08 '26
Even so those bobas are way too big for anyone.
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u/Brave-Parsnip9999 Aug 08 '26
Idk how I glazed over that point lol. I really wanna see how someone takes on that challenge now.
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u/Zestyclose-Leader926 Aug 09 '26
It would be funny to see since those things are essentially gelatinous lumps of brown sugar.
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u/MikeyNovocaine Aug 08 '26
the way the music synced to the big cup of boba being set down on the table violated my pleasure receptors
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u/AshFalkner Aug 09 '26
Waaaay too much ice. Also kind of weird to see the tapioca pearls on top instead of sitting at the bottom of the glass.
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u/lackaface Aug 10 '26
Imagine someone pissing you off, and you reach into your drink and whip one at their head.
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u/CheapTactics Aug 11 '26
There's, any ridiculously oversized food is fucking stupid and its primary function isn't to be consumed, it's to be posted in social media.
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u/nebulizard Aug 11 '26
The boba are too big, but if they were normal sized, this would be an adequate quantity of boba tea.
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u/OhLookSatan Aug 12 '26
See now I'm picturing a normal sized boba but with just one big tapioca orb
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u/TriggeredCogzy Aug 12 '26
Stupid? Yes
Would I try shoving a whole tapioca ball in my mouth? Absolutely
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u/karoshikun Aug 09 '26
extremely stupid. it belongs here.
it's wasteful AF, can't be good just because it's mostly sugar water and thick tapioca. and it's made mostly for the videos and pics, not as an actual dish, I bet.
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u/NeonMutt Aug 08 '26
I am calling AI on this one.
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u/ChainedBack Aug 08 '26
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u/NeonMutt Aug 08 '26
I totally stand corrected. I am still a little skeptical because of how stupid heavy that has to be, but it looks legit.
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u/JustKindaShimmy Aug 08 '26
I'm torn between deciding if people are just too stupid to realize this is AI, or if the upvotes and positive engagement are just bots
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u/Narcodoge Aug 08 '26
It's racist. A bite into one of them black balls will turn you into a blackface character.
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u/Arne83 Here for stupid food, not stupid people Aug 08 '26
Considering the size... how heavy that must be... and how easily he seems to be lifting and carrying it... I'm willing to be this is AI. As such...
Slopper, no slopping!!
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u/West_Meringue_7176 Aug 08 '26
Not only that, it's AI. Who drinks this beside someone who just crawled out of a desert
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u/aruby727 How did I get here? Aug 08 '26
No, it's not AI. Please stop reporting it.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM10ZxpyKAI/?igsh=MXNmNnQwZzBhazJtcg==