On balls in the mouth

[beetiger]

I’m having a minor obsession with bubble tea, right now. Sweet and chewy and creamy and complicated and silly-looking, requiring inexpensive but clearly specialized equipment to do it right. I haven’t been able to find someone in Westchester making it, though, and I feel silly taking a trip into Manhattan for, well, a soft drink. I liked Orbitz too, in its day. Somewhere in my files I have a food-scientisty formulation sheet for making roughly that.

However, I don’t like caviar at all. I especially don’t like salmon roe, which to a first approximation looks quite a bit like the tapioca bits in bubble tea. But it’s not chewy, it’s squirty. And you don’t eat it with a straw.

Personal taste is a quirky thing.

Comments

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Orbitz was interesting, and I really wanted it to succeed, and I really wanted to like it, but it didn't taste very good at all.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, it's true, the flavor systems were really hideous, and I could actually drink very much of it. But I loved the matrix!

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

There was one flavor -- in keeping with classic junk food tradition, I think it was "Red" -- that tasted less like ass. I quite enjoyed it, although a drink you had to chew up was slightly unsettling.
I'm stunned that I'm not the only one in the Western Hemisphere that wasn't repulsed by Orbitz. It was in the stores for, what, about half an hour? Hell, I even went to their lame/cool website and downloaded the Orbitz screensaver. Unfortunately that was about ten hard drive crashes ago...