- Today we ask the age old question.
- Will it boba?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
- Good mythical morning.
- Unlike the embarrassing New York Times article in 2017
calling boba blobs, as if they were an early draft
of a John Carpenter movie monster,
we know what boba is and we know that it's delicious.
- Yeah.
Boba for the uninitiated, refers to the chewy tapioca balls
that often pair with milk tea.
But the term boba is usually just used as a generic term
for any of the drinks sold in a boba tea shop.
- And fun fact, boba is actually Taiwanese for big ball.
Which is Taiwanese slang for big bosom.
And today we'll be tasting those balls and bosoms
in ways you've never seen before, it's time for--
- [Both] Will
it
boba?
- Boba tea shops are known for staying open late
which makes them popular with college students
who have nothing better to do at one in the morning.
So we thought, why not introduce boba with something else
that college students love?
Fireball whiskey.
- This is fireball whiskey boba or,
big balls of fire.
I mean hey.
It was just waiting to be said.
- [Link] And we got the big balls of fire over here.
- [Rhett] It's such a satisfying pop.
- You just wanna see that.
That is part of the experience and
we are getting that so--
- We are getting it. - That's one point.
- We're getting it.
Nicole, how did you get fireball into boba?
- [Nicole] So I took regular tapioca pearls
and then I cooked them down with some hot tamales,
those little cinnamon candies
and then I also added a ton, and I mean a ton,
of fireball whiskey.
- If you were to quantify it, how much?
- [Nicole] A ton.
- [Both] A ton.
- That's two thousand pounds,
of fireball whiskey. - But I made it,
I made it palatable enough that you won't get
knocked off your socks, hopefully.
- Oh.
- [Nicole] Hopefully?
(garbling)
- Oh cinnamon-y.
- One time we stayed in a hotel room at VidCon
and drank fireball.
- That was pretty much
the extent of our VidCon experience that night.
But it was fine.
Turns out, that was a good experience.
- Yeah and this is, this is good as well.
I love that--
- The hotness. - The hot tamales,
the flavor profile is the same as fireball,
how did you know that?
- [Nicole] Drinking lots of fireball
and hot tamales together.
- Right okay.
- I love this, now I chew
anything-- - Everything.
- Including puddings and liquids,
should I be chewing the boba, I don't know?
- You should-- - Okay good.
- Well I think it's satisfying to chew it, to break it.
I like to break it into two to three parts, small balls.
Big balls become small balls
and they go into my stomach y'all.
- I'm satisfied.
Fireball whiskey, will it boba?
- [Both] Yes.
- Now according to Etsy and dating app bios,
bacon is a personality.
So to please the masses, we have taken America's
favorite greasy meat stick and turned it into a bubble tea.
- Yeah we're calling this bacon boga
pork, I said boga.
(laughing)
- That's fine. - Calling this bacon boba,
pork milk tea.
- Pork milk tea? - Pork milk,
tea. - That sounds like something
you might get somewhere. - Well,
it just kinda makes me think, pork milk
is
a thing.
- Can you milk a pig?
- Yeah of course.
- How come we haven't?
- Because we're not piglets but why,
there's so much milk on the market.
Let's get into pork milk y'all.
- 'Cause pigs are a lot like people
because they studied the decomposing pigs
to study decomposing humans.
So I bet you it tastes like human milk
and you know how that went down.
- Difficult.
Nicole, what's in these bobas?
- [Nicole] I boiled a bunch of tapioca pearls
with actual bacon,
then I put some maple extract, some hickory smoke extract,
a little bit of brown sugar, and that's about it.
- And a bacon wrapped--
(yelling)
Let me give it a shot.
- [Both] Whoa.
- That's a pop
that won't stop. - It won't stop.
- I don't know if you can see this,
but there's floaties at the top of this,
that's just straight up fat float.
- [Nicole] I know how much you guys like
boiled bacon water so.
- Oh my gosh.
The smell that has now come from the straw to my nose.
- You gotta get a good amount of liquid
before you really know you've got a ball.
- That's true in life.
- Sorry.
- We don't know how that makes sense,
but you do the math in your own head.
I got a, oh you know what?
Hold on.
I'd turn that frown upside down because I like it.
It's super nasty on top.
(coughing)
Apparently on the bottom for Link as well.
I like the balls.
- It's salty.
I mean--
- I'm getting another one. - Salty, smokey, fatty,
bacon-y, I mean if I were just to eat a ball,
and not have to go through the liquid--
- I actually genuinely like this
because bacon flavored things can be so consistently nasty.
- I like the balls but I do not like the liquid.
- Don't think about the fat on top.
Just think about the flavor.
Just savor the flavor for just a second.
- If I promise to try as hard as I can
and I still don't like it--
- We're gonna have to disagree (laughing)
- Well then I'm not, then nothing's at stake.
- If you don't like it-- - Then you change your mind.
- If you don't like it after a second try,
I'll secretly like it but say that it won't.
It's good, it's good man, it's good.
- It's not good.
- Okay.
- It's bad.
- [Rhett] Bacon, will it boba?
- [Both] No.
- [Rhett] But kinda.
Okay maybe you've asked yourself,
just how many calories is my boba habit adding to my diet?
- I'm thinking about that. - Fear not because we're
saddling up to the bar, the salad bar that is.
- This is,
salad bar-ba.
(laughing)
Salad bar-ba.
- Yes it is.
- All right what's in this Nicole?
- [Nicole] So we have wheat grass and arugula powder
infused boba.
I made it a little sweet
so it can taste kinda like grass jelly which is very common
at boba shops. - Oh grass jelly.
- [Nicole] Yeah, very common.
I made ranch tea.
And then I shaved some croutons on the top.
And then inside, there's additional jellies made with
shredded carrots, cherry tomatoes, salad greens,
all in an Italian dressing aspic.
- [Link] Fish food.
- So this has, Link this has not just the balls
but it has the cubed jellies on top, (mumbling)
I'll go in with a spoon in one second but let's just get a,
first of all, this thing has settled
into three distinct layers.
- Yeah I mixed mine up, I maybe shouldn't have done that.
- I think mixing's good.
- Air dink?
Air sink.
- Good lord.
- I will say, it reeks of health.
What's making this so tough to like?
- I think it's the ranch.
- Oh god yeah, it's like it coagulated.
- I'll see if I can one of those--
- But you know what? - Special--
- Now that I know that it's ranch,
it's still better than pig milk.
'Cause it,
hey this is good for me you know?
Anything good for you, it's supposed to hurt a little bit.
'Cause on the other side, you look back and you're like,
I made it through that.
- [Rhett] What's in this jelly?
- [Nicole] So it's cherry tomatoes, shredded carrots,
mixed greens and it's all set in a jelly
made out of Italian dressing. - Yum.
- Maybe the ball itself is good.
- None of it's good Link.
- These are some thick balls.
Like, you bite into these balls and it's like,
it's meaty almost.
- I'm sorry.
I don't think that boba is supposed to be healthy.
I don't think the idea of boba is to worry about your diet.
When you're going boba, you're letting it all hang out.
So,
salad bar,
will it boba?
- [Both] No.
- KFC has bowls but what if KFC made a boba?
Would the Colonel be over there in the corner booth
watching us and licking his fingers?
I can't wait to find out.
- Yes, we have taken the family meal at KFC
and packed it into a family drink, this is,
Kentucky fried boba. - Oh my goodness.
Now, you got some squared off chunks down in here Nicole,
what's happening?
- [Nicole] That is corn jellies.
- [Rhett] Oh corn jellies, you know.
- I also see round bobas in there which I also have here.
You have fry-- - This is Kentucky fried boba.
- [Nicole] Kentucky fried boba.
- [Link] That is
quite a feat.
- [Nicole] Thank you.
- How'd you fry boba without killing the boba?
- [Nicole] I Kentucky fried it.
- Okay. - In a pressure cooker?
What you talking about?
- [Nicole] No I just threw it in a fryer
with some breadcrumbs--
- 11 herbs?
- [Nicole] And spices.
- What's this that's settled on top?
- [Nicole] That is mac and cheese foam.
- Oh.
- [Link] There's not a way to take that off.
Okay, see there you go, you can see it now.
- I'm gonna take a sip.
Oh the way that,
fried boba kinda,
there's a little friction on that, the fried boba,
the way it comes up the straw is a little different.
Not real smooth
and it sits right on the edge of the straw
and you kinda have to pucker real hard to get it out.
(retching)
Okay.
Well it's not great.
It's not that bad.
- What do you mean, I love it.
(laughing)
Oh man.
Oh the soggy fried--
- I'm gonna go straight fried.
Try just a ball.
- [Link] Yeah yeah yeah.
- [Rhett] Sometimes you just need a ball
out in the open air.
- That's okay.
That's okay. - Right, right.
- [Link] But this,
soggy
fried balls.
- I wanted to love it, man I wanted to love it.
But
I can't.
I just can't.
- Gravy.
(shuddering)
Gosh.
- [Rhett] KFC, will it boba?
- [Both] No.
- Some people refer to boba tea as bubble tea
but what if you could make bubble tea from actual bubbles?
- This is
scrubbabub boba.
(laughing)
Boba made from soap.
Nicole,
please
talk us into drinking this. - Tell us why this is safe.
- [Nicole] I put Dr. Bronner's soap
which is the best kind of drinking soap you can find
on the market. - That's good drinking soap.
- Not a sponsor and not advice.
- [Nicole] And I just mixed it up with some boba
then I did the same with the tea.
- Okay, and--
- It's beautiful.
- [Nicole] Thank you,
so are you. - If you're gonna wash a dog
maybe.
- You've given us a special straw, I see as well.
- [Nicole] That is a bubble boba straw.
- I'm getting some ideas here but first we gotta break in.
(laughing)
it's a hard one. - Mine bounced right off.
(snapping)
- [Rhett] Whoa.
How do you make it
so hard sometimes? - That was loud.
- I think we gotta put our whole mouths over this thing
just to get it.
I couldn't get--
- Yeah 'cause the--
- I couldn't get--
(coughing)
- The ball made its way up and it stopped right there.
- That's strong.
I'm gonna try it this way.
- There's no way to get the ball through the thing,
I don't think.
But we can at least try to,
can you get a ball up in there?
See 'cause even if I did this,
like I'll try to get a ball over here.
- Oh it's hard, you can't do it this way 'cause the--
- Yeah I already,
that's what I said. - Yeah.
What about this though?
- Oh man.
I'm tasting flashbacks to
when my nan would wash my mouth out with soap
when I would say a dirty word, 'cause yes she did that.
She would just make me stick my tongue out,
and she'd wipe the soap on it.
Oh you've got one.
That's cool.
(laughing)
- Fun with boba.
- Not as much fun with boba.
How are you,
what's the secret?
- The secret is a small mouth.
- That's huge.
- You wanna catch it, you wanna catch one?
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Let's make two bubbles into one.
Boobies boba.
(laughing)
That was awesome. - My bubble caught
your bubble and it got big, did you see that?
- Yes, let's do that again.
(laughing)
- Oh did you see that?
That was three bubbles in one bubble.
I almost forgot how bad my mouth tastes right now.
- I know.
At least we don't have potty mouth.
Soap, will it boba?
- [Both] Yes.
- It tastes like crap but it's so much fun.
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