Bubble Tea [linky]

It has been many years since I was knobby headed kid drinking sagoo.
The concoction was usually made with melon juice, the raunchy lot
that I hung out with considered them “eyeballs in piss”. As we grew
older, and less enamored with things of our culture, our love of the
gummy eyeballs waned.

Fast forward through the 90s and the bubble tea fad came to these
shores. The surge of hyper-active teens drove the fad, and I caught
the fever. Far from eyeballs in piss, bubble tea is a world of
creamy shakes and fruity slushes.

Cut to today, I found tapioca pearls and bubble straws in my Chinese
grocer. Huzzah, I no longer have to go to bubble tea shops where they
are over priced and have limited flavors or buy supplies from the
internet. I have the means of cheaply making sagoo/bubble tea at home.