And Thus I Refute Oswald Spengler With This Delicious Beverage
Here's a thought for any and all vendors offering, or thinking of offering, bubble tea, especially mango bubble tea. If you grind up actual slices of mango and mush it in there with the tapioca pearls, it will be really much, much better than just using some kind of concentrate, or juice, or what-have-you.

Sashimi Sashimi, a kind of Ikeafied hole-in-the-wall sushi joint in Evanston, has embraced this wisdom. Their sashimi is more than good enough already, but that bubble tea -- man! Many thanks to stjeromes, themagdalen, and tircha for suggesting that venue, and for their company.

Bubble tea has only been around since 1983, by the way, invented by Taiwanese beverage vendor Liu Han-Chieh. It's hard to believe that such a wonderful, yet simple food could be such a recent invention. Like Buffalo wings (invented in 1964 by Buffalo, N.Y. tavernkeeper Teressa Bellissimo), bubble tea gives one hope that the great days are still happening all around us, and that titans still walk the Earth.

Civilization is still young. There's stuff we haven't even tasted yet.