Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict • Hacker News Board

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by spodek » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 1:37 PM UTC

ewokone wrote: post #33

Reading the 'in the realm of hungry ghosts' from Gabor Mate I learned that is not the substance itself but 3 major circumstances which trigger addiction in the human: powerlessness, isolation and stress. These key factors bring up behaviour patterns for addiction. Let it be sugar, sex, Screentime, drugs, food, sport, buying things, etc.... Really helped me to reflect on my patterns and I also learned about the differ…

As a New Yorker near some of her favorite places, who also picks up litter every day, I see the plastic these places generate, as will people 500 years from now. I wish they would find an addiction that doesn't pollute so much. Not that they're any different from Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, and peers, but they certainly contribute their share.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by shawnz » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:06 PM UTC

TheSoftwareGuy wrote: post #58

asiachick wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Rat Park experiments were debunked

How?

There have been some failures to reproduce the results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park#Follow_up_experiments

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by ginko » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:09 PM UTC

vletal wrote: post #40

I hate to see original recipes bastardized by sugar and artificial coloring marketed towards kids and sold in malls.

Copious amounts of sugar are an intrinsic part of the original recipe for bubble tea as far as I know.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by spicybright » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:10 PM UTC

soulofmischief wrote: post #46

dmos62 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get powerlessness and stress, but how does isolation come into it?

The Rat Park experiments showed us that well-socialized rats were less likely to develop addiction to cocaine than socially deprived rats. "Researchers had already proved that when rats were placed in a cage, all alone, with no other community of rats, and offered two water bottles-one filled with water and the other with heroin or cocaine-the rats would repetitively drink from the drug-laced bottles until they all o…

This is very much debunked, but keeps getting propagated because people like the results. It's never been able to be re-produced.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by philliphaydon » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

I don’t understand where “boba” comes from. Because I live in Singapore, my wife is Taiwanese, so I travel to Taiwan a lot, no one calls it boba... I keep seeing American or European articles say boba. Even in this article it says boba known in Chinese... but I’ve never heard anyone in Asia call it boba... in English it’s always called “bubble milk tea” or “brown/black sugar bubble milk tea”, depending on what you want. Or if it’s added, it’s referred to as pearls.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by melomal » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

ewokone wrote: post #33

Reading the 'in the realm of hungry ghosts' from Gabor Mate I learned that is not the substance itself but 3 major circumstances which trigger addiction in the human: powerlessness, isolation and stress. These key factors bring up behaviour patterns for addiction. Let it be sugar, sex, Screentime, drugs, food, sport, buying things, etc.... Really helped me to reflect on my patterns and I also learned about the differ…

I was thinking the same about this whole post. At the end of the day it sounds like it is more aligned with addiction based on the sugar side of the drink. Big Gulp probably have the same ravaging followers too it's just not as on-trend though.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by michaelscott » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #65

I don’t understand where “boba” comes from. Because I live in Singapore, my wife is Taiwanese, so I travel to Taiwan a lot, no one calls it boba... I keep seeing American or European articles say boba. Even in this article it says boba known in Chinese... but I’ve never heard anyone in Asia call it boba... in English it’s always called “bubble milk tea” or “brown/black sugar bubble milk tea”, depending on what you wa…

Had a Taiwanese friend who ran a bubble tea store and also always referred to the bubbles added as pearls. He only changed it when he realised that his predominantly non-Asian market didn't know what "adding pearls to your tea" meant.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by derwiki » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:37 PM UTC

spodek wrote: post #61

ewokone wrote: post #33

Reading the 'in the realm of hungry ghosts' from Gabor Mate I learned that is not the substance itself but 3 major circumstances which trigger addiction in the human: powerlessness, isolation and stress. These key factors bring up behaviour patterns for addiction. Let it be sugar, sex, Screentime, drugs, food, sport, buying things, etc.... Really helped me to reflect on my patterns and I also learned about the differ…

As a New Yorker near some of her favorite places, who also picks up litter every day, I see the plastic these places generate, as will people 500 years from now. I wish they would find an addiction that doesn't pollute so much. Not that they're any different from Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, and peers, but they certainly contribute their share.

I know SF was made fun of for this, but the ban on plastic drinking straws made sense. Now all the boba shops use compostable straws and they’re fine.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by frogcoder » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #65

I don’t understand where “boba” comes from. Because I live in Singapore, my wife is Taiwanese, so I travel to Taiwan a lot, no one calls it boba... I keep seeing American or European articles say boba. Even in this article it says boba known in Chinese... but I’ve never heard anyone in Asia call it boba... in English it’s always called “bubble milk tea” or “brown/black sugar bubble milk tea”, depending on what you wa…

Every time this came up, I always insisted that it should be called booby tea. Because that's exact what Boba means, large breasts. That's a slang term meaning king of wave, because large breasts move in wave motion.

The pearl tea name came later, due to the vulgarness of it's predecessor I guess.

Now, you can enjoy more next time you suck on those sweet bouncy topioca.

Re: Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict

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Post by derwiki » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 2:43 PM UTC

spike021 wrote: post #19

I love boba and have since my Asian friends in high school introduced it to me years ago. Granted, nowadays when I order "boba" (and say I'm ordering boba) I'm just referring to the tea by itself without the pearls/bubbles/boba. I mostly do this to cut down on sugar, since boba itself just has way too much. Though occasionally when I really am in the mood and I know the shop I'm at makes great boba, I do order it wit…

There’s also a Ten Ren on Grant in SF Chinatown. I still have a punch card..