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  • [People try boba for the first time.]

  • [Also known as pearls, boba are chewy balls made of tapioca.]

  • [They are usually enjoyed in milk tea.]

  • It looks really weird.

  • It's never come into my life, I've seen it at restaurants.

  • Whenever friends do try it, I'm always hesitant.

  • I rarely went to a place that served it, and then when I was there, I was like, "That looks too weird, I'm gonna have the chicken I can't pronounce instead."

  • [Regular milk tea]

  • This is like, classic boba.

  • It's sealed.

  • I hope that it tastes like chocolate milk.

  • It just felt like tadpoles flew in my mouth.

  • I don't know how I feel about chewing these weird gummy things.

  • It's like chewing on a trampoline.

  • I'm like, pleasantly surprised.

  • The tea is delicious.

  • It's very similar to, like, this Indian chai.

  • I like it, but I don't get it.

  • It's like expecting to get a Game Boy for Christmas, and then your parents get you a Game Boy Advance.

  • I would totally go for this again.

  • [Taro milk tea]

  • This looks like a witch's brew.

  • I have no idea what taro is.

  • Ooh, that's good.

  • I really like it, I like it more than the first one.

  • It's a floral, kind of sweet potato kind of flavor.

  • Sweet but not too sweet.

  • Chewing on something matches the flavor of what's going on here.

  • I would prefer the tea without the boba.

  • [Honeydew milk tea]

  • Honeydew milk tea?

  • This does not look natural at all.

  • This is really good.

  • Nooo!

  • Whoa, that tastes exactly like honeydew.

  • So sweet and so sour at the same time.

  • It's not overly powerful, it's not too sweet.

  • This makes the most sense to chew the balls, cause you're used to chewing when you eat honeydew.

  • I feel like honeydew is done better in boba than it is like, on its own.

  • I'm liking it more and more.

  • [Final thoughts]

  • Maybe I need to go out and start drinking more boba tea.

  • It almost makes drinking tea stressful.

  • I'm a convert.

  • I like the squishy.

  • I would drink this now. I'm glad I tried it.

  • These balls confuse me a ton.

  • I don't know whether to swallow them, or just like, let them hang out in my mouth.

  • It's, it's impossible not to make jokes about balls when you're drinking this tea.

[People try boba for the first time.]

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