I remember once my coworker told me she named her baby cousin Boba, because he was round and squishy, like a boba from a cup of Boba milk tea. Then I told her, do you not know what Boba means? She said she didn’t know.
So I told her the origin of the word, in Chinese, it is a term which describes a big-busted woman. So my coworker laughed it off, and I wonder if she still calls her cousin that.
In recent years, Boba tea houses has taken off in the US, but it is actually a Taiwanese term used to describe Tapioca (I don’t think I need to describe the appropriate sarcasm here), just like in Hong Kong, people call it Pearl, which is in my opinion, at least a higher-class term.
Years ago I dreamed about opening a Boba tea house (or actually doing non-funny stand-up comedy), and I remember wanting to tell this joke.
A guy comes into this tea house and says, “Give me a large Boba Milk Tea,”
The attractive waitress hands him the Tea, and the guy looks at his cup of plain milk tea. “Hay, where’s the Boba?”
So the owner points at the waitress, and grunted, “That’s not Boba enough for you?”
……
…… silence…..
Ahem …
This reminds me of bad jokes in Leisure Suite Larry.
