This, in a nutshell, is why I’d be a little skeptical of the likelihood of success of a bubble-tea shop if it’s a little nowhere town where nobody has heard of bubble tea. This is a pretty niche product; if you don’t have a customer base of Asians and/or snooty-college-kids-who-learn-about-bubble-tea-from-their-Asian-college-friends.
You sayin I live in some nowhere hick town!!! 
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I have never heard it called bubble tea. I know it as Boba Tea.
Bird, are you a people person? Sounds like something that someone who really likes working with the public would have fun with.
My sentiments excatly! Now, that I see it, I am 99% sure I don’t want any 
Im thinking my business idea would be a risky, considering that clientele pool would be limited due to be a minimal amount of Asians and a minimal amount of uni/college students in the town. The attitude around town is “hick”-like and they may not be keen to try something so foreign. I might have to stick with my dry cleaners idea.
And for those who have never tried bubble tea: I once did not like the idea, but once you try some good bubble tea you don’t look back. I don’t like the milky or ultra-sweet tea. I stick to good quality Oolong tea with boba and coconut pieces.
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I live in NYC and regularly travel to Asia, London, Tel Aviv, etc. Never heard of, or seen, “bubble tea.”
Of course, I also don’t “read” manga or similar things, which I bet has a high demographic overlap as bubble tea.
Looks like another spin on juice drinks/smoothies and about as “healthy.” No wonder China leads the world in Type II diabetics.
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There were quite a few bubble tea places near the U-district in Seattle when I was in college in the early 2000s. But that fits the mentioned demographic of young asians, college students that want to be trendy, and young asian college students that want to be trendy.
Lest y’all get the wrong impression that I was slamming little hick towns, my point was basically just that bubble tea is a pretty niche-y product, and if even well-traveled folk like Jewbacca haven’t heard of it, my guess is that most of the people in Birdy’s town will probably not develop a craving for the stuff.
I once accidentally bought a can of juice that had those tapioca pearls. Imagine my horror when mid-chug I got a mouthful of frogspawn.
I haven’t trusted Chinese supermarkets since.
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Lol… pussy
I used to guzzle bubble tea down like there was no tomorrow at the height of it’s popularity in the early 2000s.
“Boba Tea” - bo ba means Big Boobs btw.
“The joys of sucking on balls”
Where’d you find this, the chow hall?
“The joys of sucking on balls”
Where’d you find this, the chow hall?
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Yes, Camp Lejeune.
(In reality, it’s from “engrishfunny.com.” I’m waiting on the frac crew to stop holding their dicks and bored out of my mind.)
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I laughed out loud. Nothing wrong with a little branch rivalry.
As an aside, thank you for what you said about men in Walter Reed.
And for a further aside, did your DI (or whatever Marines call them) do the “Froot Loop” trick to recruits? My step dad warned me about that from the Vietnam era and I avoided the issue, but many fell for it.
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I can’t say I’ve heard of the “froot loop” trick. I’m not sure I wanna know what it is…
Sounds worse than it is. In Basic, the chow line would have froot loops or sugar frosted flakes or whatever at the end after the powdered eggs and mush.
New recruit would come along and grab the cereal. He would then get humiliated for the duration of Basic (or at least a couple of weeks) by the DIs for “stealing their foot loops” or whatever. You’d have groups coming in ~3wks so the “old” guard (of, you know, 3-12 weeks in) would participate.
The zoomies did this too, as does the Navy. Surprised the Marines don’t.
Or maybe the military has gone soft overall.
I don’t remember there being cereal in the chow hall at boot. All I remember is we’d get smoked if we tried to drink the Powerade. That and I dropped my cover early on and my DI smashed it into my chow, which of course was fish. It smelled great from there on out, but I never dropped it again, lol.