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Friday Fun Thread for July 24, 2026

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What is something that you completely can not understand why it exists?
From time to to time I notice something and I am like wow there is a market for this.

One big one for me has always been Starbucks. I can not imagine paying their prices for coffee. And I generally want a coffee within the first 15 minutes of waking up so the idea of putting on clothing and going to a coffee store everyday seems both a huge waste of time and money.

So for the most part I can’t understand the volume of business at coffee stores.

Boba tea. Women love it, I'm perplexed by the appeal. Or matcha, which has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It tastes like liquid grass.

I like matcha, but I also like glass jelly and root beer, so some of this might just be a raw different tastes thing. That said, there are some fantastic options for boba; most shops will have mango tea and coconut jelly as an option, and so long as you get it low sugar it's very hard to dislike.

For boba, some how the tapioca balls and foreign origin let people pretend that they aren't just drinking a warm milkshake.

It's a replacement for alcohol/hookah for a lot of women, just an excuse to hang out. That gets backfilled into an actual habit.

They could just have normal coffee or tea?

They could!

I really like boba tea, but I prefer making it myself since the ones you buy usually have the balls too soft where as I prefer they have some bite to them.

I like tea, and boba is basically just lightly sweetened ice tea, with the balls having interesting texture.

De gustibus non est disputandum. I love matcha, personally, in basically any form -- lattes, shortbread, cheesecake...

Boba tea. Women love it, I'm perplexed by the appeal.

Try Taro flavor, with white-people levels of sugar. It's like a mild, creamy slushy.

I liked the matcha candy I tasted, but I ordered a matcha latte and it really did taste like really bitter liquid grass, accurate description. It was awful. Never buying matcha anything ever again.

Matcha tastes like liquefied salmon to me. And not in a good way, even though I love salmon.

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