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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   4038 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 17, 2023

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Hate to put out the AskReddit tier question. But what did you find to be grossly overrated?

I'm a Chinese food enthusiast and shop far and wide for authentic ingredients to recreate dishes at home. Once I found out that a 'chili oil with beef 'is a thing that exists and is apparently delicious, I immediately hit the Asian grocery store and got some. It was even more enticing to me because said product is not available in North America, well I don't live in a communist country (joke) so I got my hands on some fairly easily.

It was meh. Really did not live up to the hype from the linked video. Regular chili oil with fried minced beef, that's it. Maybe the American who made the video just finds it to be better because he knows there is a forbidden quality to it and his subconscious mind does the work. Obviously, not everyone's tastes are the same. Mildly regretting driving 45 minutes each way to the Asian market for one product.

Bubble tea. Don't understand the hype at all. If given the choice between bubble tea and an iced latte I would always pick the latter.

Boba is a form of social gathering and an alternative to booze, that's where most of the love comes from.

Sure. Coffee also serves both functions, and I love coffee. Cannot say the same for bubble tea, at least the variety of it that I've consumed.

First I've heard of fruit bubble tea, I'm intrigued.

Bubble tea.

Not a big fan of sweet dairy drinks so I dodged that psyop.

It's something fun that, for the most part, I can't make at home. For a while when my wife and I were living with my parents while we were shopping for a house, we drank a lot of bubble tea from a little local place. Because it was a non alcoholic non heavily caffeinated way to get out of the house, that felt special enough to justify going without being more than a few bucks or being a whole meal. We'd each get one, get in the convertible on a nice day, and just drive and chat.

or being a whole meal

Look up the number of calories in a typical (American) serving of bubble tea and you will change your mind about that.

I second this. This was like 15 years ago, but I remember trying it and wondering what all the fuss was about. It wasn't even good, much less great enough to be worth the hype. And I normally love sweet drinks.

Bubble tea is warm, it's loaded with sugar, and it's not coded as low class.

If you put that much milk and sugar in a regular tea from a coffee shop people would make fun of you.

I like bitter rich tastes. I don't like the gross sickly sweet taste of sweetened coffee. Call it an affectation if you must, but I take my coffee black.

It definitely feels like a reaction against the Starbucks "breakfast milkshake" rather than a genuine preference much of the time.

I've been pegged incorrectly as a coffee snob several times by co-workers due to my preference for black coffee, which I find humorous since I actually am neutral at best about its taste. I've just found it the best low calorie caffeine delivery system.

Kind of like steak. Yes I order medium rare. But honestly why do we care if someone order medium well? Status only

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