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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Give Me Bubble Tea or Give Me Death

At this point, I half expect my family and friends to hold an intervention on my behalf. My addiction? The sweet allure of boba tea—aka bubble tea—a tea beverage served with gelatinous tapioca pearls.

How bad has it gotten? Well, our local tea house has a customer loyalty program—a free beverage after ten paid drinks—which I have cashed in on so often that I’d be entitled to a free drink on all my free drinks, if management happened to be so generous.

I find myself craving bubble teas more than I ever did coffee drinks, but fortunately for our pocketbook and my waistline, the shops serving these ambrosial (and highly caloric) beverages are much more difficult to find—at least where we live—than the innumerable places offering cups of joe.

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