Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie! - Ch. 25 - Inadvertently Becoming Conscious Of The Situation

[Med1um]

@ShionVaynex
where i live, we don't even have such a thing. The first time i ever heard about "bubble tea" was from Kaguya-sama manga. So, well, if they didn't lie about japanese bubble tea, that it's almost completely starch, then it should be REALLY high calorie. Starch is about 5 times more calories than milk, or more than a half ammount of calories of a butter... a freaking brick of butter!

So you can easily assume how much calories would be in the drink based on such a thing, therefore i kind of surprised at Nanami reaction.

P.S. Sugar that bring sweetness isn't the only thing that have calories, so even if it isn't overly sweet (or even not sweet at all), 500 kkal from that one cup is quite good estimate.

 

[CCO812]

Basically, two nerds being normified

 

[Kevadu]

Is bubble tea actually trendy still? I mean, I first tried the stuff almost 20 years ago. It's fine but it's not exactly something new...

 

[Nakanowatari]

@kevadu given its being featured here id guess yes.

But 20 years ago? Damn, didnt even know bubble exist back then. Thought bubble tea was something from 5-7 years ago

 

[iDiarkis]

damn, she realized

 

[SJ7]

It's always better when they become conscious of it after the fact.

 

[Psychronia]

I grew up loving bubble milktea. Which I guess is part of why I'm a fatty now.

 

[yuu-oniichan]

I think Japan just started going through their bubble milk tea fad phase, hence the chapter.

For some things they're ahead, and some other things... they can be like like a decade or two behind. (Like the post-flip phone phase also took a long time there).

 

[ttcc]

click page 4 and then page 5 and mangadex just bugs out

 

[Kevadu]

@Nakanowatari Wikipedia says it was first invented in Taiwan in the 1980s. It's been around for a while now...

 

[Nostal]

She sure is stacked huh

 

[youkari]

I've heard that Japanese people say

タピますか?

when asking their friends if they want to have bubble tea. Which is a pun on 食べますか? Seems like a hip phrase or something.

 

[lordharkon]

>You can't just go into normie territory

I don't think this girl has the right to call people normies.

>Meets up with person she only knows online
>Multiple dates with said person
>Constantly outside
>Brings them to her house

She's basically a normie herself.

 

[earl]

as a californian seeing everyone call it "bubble tea" hurts me

 

[Cawffee]

@youkari ooohh so I'm guessing "tapi" is the short word for tapioca?

It's interesting to know that they don't call it Pearls. Maybe that's more difficult to pronounce in japanese

 

[wafernabati]

so cute >w<

 

[youkari]

@Cawffee Yeah, it'd be short for tapioca. As for your second thought, they are probably various reasons that they don't call them pearls.

 

[TheGTF]

@breizh It's balls of tapioca starch put into a sugary, typically whole milk based drink- the calories add up very fast in that combination.

 

[LordoftheKeep]

there's only like 10 fucking balls in that drink
what a ripoff

 

[The_Blues_13]

I don't get the appeal of bubble tea and why did it get so popular in the first place.
The tapioca pearls are bland, starchy and taste funny.
I like the milk tea part but I'd rather buy/make the milk tea separately instead of ruining it by incorporating the tapioca pearls.

Tried it twice just because my friend and cousin ask me to, never like it. and it's just a junk food version of the otherwise originally healthy beverage.