• Cloudless ☼
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    201 year ago

    Fun fact:

    The word “boba” came from the Chinese word for “large breasts”.

    The boys were probably asking for those.

    • darcy
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      1 year ago

      not true. please stop spreading misinformation. Boba (bôba) is originally a vietnamese word meaning ‘eggs of man’

      edit: this is a joke guys come on

      • Cloudless ☼
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        Context matters.

        The “boba” in this post refers to the bubble tea drink, which originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s, and became popular worldwide eventually.

        In bubble tea, the tapicoca balls were called 波霸 in Chinese, which is a slang term for “large breasts.”

        Please let me know how that is misinformation. Or how the Vietnamese word got used in a Taiwanese drink.

        You can do some fact checking and educate yourself:

        https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-bubble-tea-origins/index.html

        https://www.bubbleteaology.com/history-bubble-tea-who-invented-boba/

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea

          • darcy
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            31 year ago

            in australia theres an island called N_gger Head 💀 and 2 places named Chinamans Knob

            • Flying Squid
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              11 year ago

              Sadly, there’s some places in the U.S. with that word in their name too. As far as the other one goes, here in Indiana, we have the town of Floyds Knobs.

          • Cloudless
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            101 year ago

            I think it was a reasonable response to someone wrongfully accusing me of spreading misinformation.

            They could have said that my statement was incorrect/inaccurate. But they straight said I was spreading misinformation, as if I did it intentionally.

      • @S_204@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago

        Damn, The comment below really informed you how wrong you are. Are you going to edit your misinformation or just leave it?

      • enjoytemple
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        1 year ago

        It is true, but it also goes a little deeper than that. In the 1980s, Amy Yip, a Hong-Kong sexy actress, was extremely popular in Taiwan along with her nickname “波霸” (boba, or “the biggest balls” in Cantonese). Around the same time, people started to put tapioca pearls in drinks, and called the bigger tapioca pearls “boba.”

        In recent years, people do consider it’s improper to use such a term and has been slowly moving to more SFW words as “大/小珍珠” (big/small pearls) in Taiwan, but “boba” has stuck too deep in the English speaking world.

        Source: me, a Taiwanese in 30s that basically grows up with boba drinks

  • ryan213
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    91 year ago

    My friend doesn’t understand…can someone help them?

    • @Hypersapien@lemmy.world
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      131 year ago

      Woman thought car full of guys was going to say something lewd and juvenile.

      Turned out they just wanted to know where she got the bubble tea she was drinking.

      The guys had been arguing about where it was. The guy who spoke to her was right, Jared was wrong.

      • ryan213
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        41 year ago

        My friend said that’s what he thought but he wasn’t sure because it seemed like there was something more.

    • @Saneless@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Mine love it till they get it. Then it gets wasted. Another person’s kid did the same and she wanted to try another flavor. Fuck that

  • enjoytemple
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    21 year ago

    Can’t blame Jered. It’s summer and I’m basically thinking of boba 24/7.

    • @Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      251 year ago

      By conclusion, you mean the more likely scenario. I feel any guy that would call her out would be doing it knowing full well how guys act sometimes…most of the time if we are in groups.

    • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      Well as long as she keeps it in her head I don’t see the issue. Everyone has prejudices, the important thing is not to act with them as basis.