The choice of the table is not lost on me😅

@unnamedchannel1237

17 күн бұрын

Well done I did not immediately click on but only a few seconds into video when I read your comment

@ogredwing

17 күн бұрын

How was this comment posted 13 days ago?

@bartrebe

16 күн бұрын

@@ogredwing there is a section that you can join I don't think that you have to pay. The info is probably in the written info near the description

@sarah12232

15 күн бұрын

@@bartrebe early access links are shared in his discord server in a dedicated channel. you need to join the discord server, that is the only pre requisite

@bartrebe

10 күн бұрын

@@sarah12232 I new it was a different section, but I also have no idea what a discord server is. Thanks and all the best

Meal Challenge idea: Blobs only

@KyleRDent

17 күн бұрын

Not a bad idea really. Pizza dough balls for starters, wheel pasta with meatballs for main, followed by profiteroles for dessert. A lot of stodge though, might be better for winter. Or AS can come up with something more inventive than I can 😂

@SananaAnanas

17 күн бұрын

Yes!! I wanna see it!

@AtomicShrimp

17 күн бұрын

Tomatoes are just plant blobs, when you think about it

@ares395

17 күн бұрын

@@AtomicShrimp And now everyone had the PTSD of Denethor eating a tomato... well 'eating'

@glennhamilton-smith3799

17 күн бұрын

Sounds like a Slaughter Valley deleted scene. "Consume your blob allowance"

What a brilliant character arc. The character growth in this show is amazing

@milquetoasted

17 күн бұрын

Puts Babylon 5 to shame. My new favourite streaming show is Atomic Shrimp

@insanitywolf-vh1hn

17 күн бұрын

Reminds me so much of sons of anarchy.

@nettack

15 күн бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree. Though, the rat at the end was a little too on the nose for my taste.

I like the idea off the builders looking out the window at you and wondering what the hell is going on!

"Precipitation may occur." Wow, drinking this can actually cause it to rain. This could solve droughts!

@2avcrm

17 күн бұрын

That is why you need to shack well - to keep dry

@AB-dm1wz

17 күн бұрын

Like something out of Slaughter Valley!

@annieclaire2348

16 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@artistknownaslisa2850

16 күн бұрын

​@@2avcrmlol 😂

The straw is what makes bubble tea enjoyable and quite fun. I don't drink it anymore just because there is so much sugar in it, but do remember it being a fun experience. Poping the lid when you get it from a proper shop is also fun.

I tend to prefer popping blobs to the chewy tapioca blobs, especially at the bubble tea places you see in big cities

@danlacey3676

17 күн бұрын

If you're tapioca blobs are chewy then something has gone wrong in the bubble factory

@MrBrax

17 күн бұрын

@@danlacey3676 all the black boba blobs i've had were chewy

@ananananabop

17 күн бұрын

What is the popping boba texture like? Soft grapes?

@godzamoongus

17 күн бұрын

@ananananabop yeah, the skin can have a slightly acidic taste but it depends on what flavour of drink and boba you have. Overall, small grapes

@ricab9171

17 күн бұрын

⁠@@danlacey3676tapioca pearls (normal boba) are meant to be chewy

Needed shacking more well, I reckon.

@AtomicShrimp

17 күн бұрын

If I'd have shacken any more, I'd have bracken my boke

@artistknownaslisa2850

16 күн бұрын

​@@AtomicShrimp😂

@michaelold6695

15 күн бұрын

@@AtomicShrimpcan I get a translation of this please?

🤣 2:36 Atomic Shrimp, sounding aggrieved, "Where are my blobs in my blob drink?...I want some blobs!...I'm disappointed if there aren't popping blobs in here." Thank you so much for making me giggle. No one else could have made this so amusing.

@stephenlee5929

17 күн бұрын

I was very confused, He pulled the ring pull. A standard opener would have revealed his blobs. 😊

@eloquentsarcasm

16 күн бұрын

@@stephenlee5929 HAH! I didn't think about that, I think you might be right, lol.

Blob tea should be a shopping category on the next shopping challenge.

So it smelt like bubblebath, looks like frogspawn, and has the colour of, well, lets say apple juice. How could i not buy this after that recommendation! 😂

@techstormster

17 күн бұрын

LMAO

@velfaern1716

16 күн бұрын

Sounds delicious 😂

@artistknownaslisa2850

16 күн бұрын

😋😆

@CricketEngland

16 күн бұрын

Because it got to much crap in it

@raraavis7782

16 күн бұрын

I'm intrigued and disgusted at the same time 👀

I love boba tea, it's like a fidget toy for your mouth.

What's next? "Remarkable... This pull tab on the can left quite the clean edge, this may be the day I retire my can-opener..." Haha

@artistknownaslisa2850

16 күн бұрын

Say it isn't so! 😂

WHERE ARE THE BLOBS IN MY BLOB DRINK!?

"Weird Stuff in a Can" is my comfort series. It's so nice and soothing. I vicariously enjoy the happiness about trying out new weird stuff in a can a lot, and it's just... pleasant. Exactly what I need sometimes, in a hectic world full of bad news.

0:25 Dogo learned to teleport right in front of us

Stuck blobs? Time to deploy the can opener perhaps...

"Looks like frog spawn" took me out! I very much dislike blob drinks, and always thought of them as fish eggs, but I like your description , more accurate. And hilarious! Thanks ,Mike, for sharing the ramble.

Only ten teaspoons of sugar per can. What could possibly go wrong?

The perfumey (sp?) type scent/flavor may actually be coming from the tea itself. I've had oolongs that were flowery.

I once encountered a child begging for her mother to buy a dragonfruit at a supermarket. I told her that dragonfruit tastes like "sadness and disappointment." Will you maybe make your own blobs now? Perhaps with foraged flavors like blackberry or elderflower?

@EggBastion

17 күн бұрын

sounds like Sainsbury's own brand bourbon biscuits - except for the bit where they taste of anything at all

@pattheplanter

17 күн бұрын

With lactofermented veg and limestone as the source of the calcium lactate? Wild garlic vegan caviar.

@roecocoa

17 күн бұрын

My brother reports that the locally grown dragonfruits in rural Nicaragua exceeded all expectations.

@pattheplanter

17 күн бұрын

@@roecocoa Weird Explorer tasted 20 varieties from 7 species (and hybrids) of dragonfruit. There are some that have strong flavours and varying amounts of tartness like Sugar Dragon and American Beauty. They are not sold by supermarkets.

@MissCookieThief

17 күн бұрын

I guess I'm in the minority here since I really like Dragonfruit. I think it has a faint sweetness that's really pleasant.

Glass straw. That’s a neat idea. Properly reusable and doesn’t break down after leaving it in your drink for longer than five minutes. I also don’t really like it when drinks give me a solid piece all of a sudden. Ice, boba balls, and pulp just make me go “Eugh. Nasty.” But maybe if I were to get a hold of this stuff maybe that will change! :)

@narniaknight

17 күн бұрын

The texture is unique. I like em.

@AtomicShrimp

17 күн бұрын

Yeah, I looked at reusable plastic or metal boba straws, but the thing I like about the glass one is that since it will be washed and reused, you can easily see if it's clean inside

Firstly I’m glad you didn’t experience any precipitation, it is summer after all! 😂 Secondly it was lovely to see that Eva’s collar matched the strawberry drink and the bubble effect table. Well done Mr Shrimp.

I mean, alginate is really cheap, how about a food challenge with home made blobs?

Drinking it correctly for the first time probably did help. Also, you've had blobs several times by now, so you might be growing accustomed. I'm glad you enjoyed this one!

I actually like boba personally (though I prefer the classic brown sugar and milk+tapioca version over popping boba tea, but I'll get the latter too on occassion) and I honestly haven't found a good canned one yet. I prefer to make them at home. Especially since you can control the sugar that way (it's usually just flavored syrup) Though this one actually looks okay, nice it has actual popping boba instead of these gross blobs.

Must be one of the most unnatural drinks I’ve ever seen. Gives Prime a run for its money 😂

@Rogers1000

17 күн бұрын

IKR they say they have flavours yet they all taste foul

@daftpunkking909

16 күн бұрын

And prime is now cheaper than that blob tea.... mostly seen in barging buckets these days. Prime has past its prime

@Rogers1000

16 күн бұрын

@@daftpunkking909 all the old flavours I've seen for as little as 79p in some shops now but new 'flavours' come out at £2.50 still

@CricketEngland

16 күн бұрын

Never buy drink that have so much artificial crap in them, I mean what’s wrong with a good old bottle of water

I admire and aspire to your openness to new things.

Mike, in one of your FAQ's would you consider mentioning how you met Babatunde? I quite like watching his videos as they show day to day Africa.

@AtomicShrimp

17 күн бұрын

The story is laid out in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2eclMyFnqvPYaQ.html

@TheRattyBiker

17 күн бұрын

@@AtomicShrimp That is a fantastic story Mike! 😊 Thanks for replying. I had also wondered how the limited budget series came about.

I had some white dragonfruit other day and I found it didn't have any taste at all and I thought it was me I'm glad I wasn't the only one to say this

@Jhud69

17 күн бұрын

Yeah, white dragon fruit kind of tastes like if you took kiwi but removed all flavor from it. Refreshing but not worth the money. I've had pink one before though and that one was way better

@anniestumpy9918

17 күн бұрын

It has a very mild taste but I love the texture. Liki kiwi fruit but more tender.

"Precipitation may occur." Lmao 😂

i really like that table. it's very visually pleasing

The conclusion being that we should be drinking and eating fruit flavoured things and not washing ourselves in them. Just to keep a sane perspective.

This reminds me of when I first took my mom out to get boba. She didn't really like the tapioca boba but the popping boba? She looked so happy popping the first one she tried, it was very wholesome. Also, south hackensack is right near me! The communities around there and neighboring towns are the best spot near me to get asian goods.

the straw is a huge reason why it's more pleasant. sipping boba from a pint glass sounds miserable. youve got to try the ultimate blob drink now though - sudzu cold skim milk and gummy bears. it's great

Even his table outside is weird and nice!

You know, when all of the blobs coalesce into one big blob, in order to get them out, I do something many may find controversial, and I am not sure if you've ever tried this, but instead of using the little tab, you can actually open the can much wider using a regular old can opener!

@AtomicShrimp

15 күн бұрын

Nobody in their right mind would use a can opener on a can with a pull tab!

I love these videos. Such a calming delight every time.

Very happy that you’re having boba with a wide straw finally lol. Have you considered buying a fresh one from a bubble tea shop? It’s much better.

A drink that's obviously made for Mr Blobby.

@edtuckerartist

16 күн бұрын

Or did Mr Blobby invent the drink first?

It's kind of a shame that almost all drinks that aren't marketed as sugarfree or reduced sugar have about 10%. Imagine filling 10% of your morning cup of tea or coffee with sugar, kind of ridiculous. And so many of those drinks would actually taste better if they weren't as sweet. Add in that sugar free drinks are usually sweetened to or past that level and it's hard to get non-sweet beverage that isn't just plain water (and if I want that I'll use a tap)

Alginate is (possibly a brand name of) a product I have used to keep a swimming-pool clean, or at least to keep it looking clean and smelling highly of chlorine..

Now that you switched location for this... i kinda want a Mr. Shrimp podcast from your greenhouse like Adam Ragusea did them for a while :D I dont want you blindly copying, but i'd LOVE a video format where youre just rambling about certain topics for an hour, maybe even with Jenny.

We have a small range of Popping Boba in my store. For whatever reason, the dragonfruit one is the most difficult for our scanners to pick up on. Red ink on a pink label being difficult for a red laser to find, most likely.. We also have milky boba teas with the tapioca spheres within them as well as some coffee boba too. I honestly recommend the Popping Boba series as an introduction to blob drinks in general. Nothing as thick as what one would expect in an aloe drink or as chewy as the tapioca balls. Given you're all right with having gelatin, of course.

Your blobs are on the table!

Never tried that stuff, and if the trend dies tomorrow I will not feel that I’ve missed anything significant. Those blobs strike me as about the most artificial “food” item possible, as if the makers had taken a bet to see what is the least food-like stuff that they could get people to consume voluntarily.

I have green bubble tea from my local Vietnamese takeaway so green tea with blueberry flavouring, strawberry 'bubbles' and ice - great for a hangover

There might just be an idea to make an own hand-made version of Blob tea by using sirup-flavoured tea together with small berries, for example blueberries or red currants. And on hot summer days, the berries could be put frozen in this tea which makes an Ice tea.

@raraavis7782

16 күн бұрын

I like doing that. I fill a glass about a quarter full of frozen berries and then cold sparkling water. Which gives you pretty intensely flavored water to drink and the joy of popping the partly frozen or just thawed berries in your mouth. It's a refreshing and low calorie alternative to most 'fun summer drinks' or desserts.

@lucymiau5700

16 күн бұрын

@@raraavis7782 It's simple and good.

Those canned boba drinks are quite a poor representation of a freshly made drink from a boba shop. The traditional base is usually tea like your oolong there and then you can add stuff but you don't even have to have boba in it! There is a ritual when you order where you have to state how much ice and sugar you require. My favourite is oolong with freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit with little ice (more to drink) zero sugar and tapioca balls plus grass jelly. So it doesn't have to be sweet as hell. Glad to see you're coming round to the idea

Blob drinks are an definitely an acquired taste.

Ive boughten 4 different flavors of bursting boba for my grandkiddos and my neice for Christmas one year. They came in 2 packs so the kids each got a flavor and the other 4 were for the adults to use. They were a hit with both adults and kids. The peach and blueberry were my favorites but my neice adores mango lol I did add mine to an adult wine beverage to make a sangria type drink smd they were nice. I also like the harder chewy brown sugar tapioca tupe boba nit not in tea but iced coffee. I buy trader joes frozen boba kit and add to my own coffee. I have bought the droed big bag of boba and cooked and added my own brown sugar syrup and we froze individual little packets but the the kids do not like it as much as myself and my daughter. But the cook yourself ones are very very economical to make and use. Just freeze the individual portions as it makes quite a lot. Amazon carries them and almost evety Asian market near me does also . They should be kinda easy to find in the US if you habe any Asian markets.

Ninja level straw. Tool for the job.

A blob table for a blob drink

Love the popping bubbly table

Boba Wet? Sorry, i'll get my coat.

Brilliant, just got home from work and Mike has a new Weird Stuff up! I stick to whisky or brandy myself, but I enjoy seeing the wild stuff on screen. Cheers Shrimp, another banger of a video! EDIT: No proper blobs, 0/10. In the words of the incomparable ReviewBrah "My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined!".

Product manufactured for a company in South Hackensack, NJ, USA. Fun fact: look at a map of South Hackensack. It consists of a main section and two other non-contiguous sections that are separated from the main section by several miles.

@jess-mx

16 күн бұрын

Haha yes, and if you live in one the disconnected portions, you gotta drive through a couple towns and terrible NJ rush hour traffic to get your kids to school. That whole part if NJ is made up of tiny little towns that have no business being separate and having their own mayors, councils, police/fire departments, etc. It's a huge waste

I think blob has become my favourite word. Blob blob blob blob

I wonder if it is the fact that the boba are popping , hence thin and quickly eaten, as opposed to a more traditional boba which is a more chewy and larger amount of “solid” material to consume.

Thanks for the video. Have an awesome weekend.

Appropriate table for that drink!

”I'm out in the garden doing weird stuff in a can” O⁠_⁠o ... I won't tell if you don't. ^⁠_⁠^

hope the renovation goes quickly - fingers crossed

Ok, I had no idea there was such a thing as artificial caviar.

Red 40 is E129, which is no longer authorised in the EU and Northern Ireland

Popping boba tea is very good! Glad you enjoyed it 🤩💯

Where are my blobs 🤣🤣🤣🧋Thanks for sharing Atomic shrimp 🦐🤗

Every time you post a blob video I'm always surprised by how many people are averse to the idea of solid things in drinks. It's not surprising that the straw improved your experience. I'm curious what you would think of other common toppings, like fruit pieces, agar boba, tapioca boba, pudding, jelly (pieces), other jelly (like jello), pudding (like flan), red bean, sago, and other modifications like cheese foam. If there's any boba shops nearby, I would love to see a taste test. I maybe you could DIY some too.

That sounds wonderful, honestly 👀

Nice one, thank you

That table loks like an Amanita Muscaria that switched colour order and got out of hand!

I've actually had that before. It's pretty good.

Here's the nutritional information: Sugar water.

Seems like blob technology has advanced from the first blobs you encountered in this series which were less spheroid and more.... mucosal.

Finally Something to Watch : )

One thing I like to do (and started when I visited a frozen yoghurt place) is to buy the popping boba and add them to desserts - ice cream, waffles etc. as they add a nice little pop of colour and flavour, and you can easily mix and match. There's a wide variety of flavours available and they seem to still be fine after opening for a long time in my experience Though I have never had boba tea XD

and all the little sadists were disappointed. maybe next time.....

I’ve been wanting to try one of these and I think I might now

I think popping blobs most certainly do qualify as "weird stuff". And wherever did you find the perfect straw for it?

50g grams of sugar per can! Good god!

@CricketEngland

16 күн бұрын

Yea I mean you would never eat 50g of sugar in one go but most people are happy to drink it in crap like this

The bubble tea & little boba tapioca fish pearly blobs have become very trendy here in the US . "by trendy I of course mean outrageously overpriced”. Like my old friend the "Nouveau sophistico Avocado" I loved the Thai version of the boba tea (Cha Nom Yen) its creamy and spiced and I still prefer it, 20 years after fist trying it.

video idea a short video discussing a foraging plant that u then show how to identify safely

I need Mike to try some real brown sugar milk tea with tapioca now

I love popping boba. I get it nearly everytime I order bubble tea.

Now I understand why it says, children and old people should be supervised. I love garden peas, but funnily enough, i cannot eat petit poi's, because they stick in my throat and I start to choke. This drink would be ideal for me without the blobs 😂. Thank you for the video, very interesting stuff.

Yes! Those popping boba are so freakin good. The "normal" ones are dookie EDIT: and holy cow that glass straw goes so hard

How on earth did I not know that glass straws were a thing until today?

@unnamedchannel1237

17 күн бұрын

I thought they were for smoking meth

It's funny because my diet is hugely limited by my weird texture issues, and yet I actually enjoy Boba when a lot of people seem not to 😮

There's a boba tea place a town over from where I live, it's great! Popping bobas are good, but I've always preferred the tapioca bobas.

Resilient blobs.

You just reminded me of the TV advertisement for TV-Times... .... I Never Knew There Was So Much In It!!

Not me drinking one of these (well the peach one anyway) right now and this pops up in my youtube feed! They sell them at 5 below around here. In my opinion the peach one is really good, the tea flavor comes out more and works better with the peach juice.

That's my biggest problem with boba is all the sugar. I have to get like 50% sugar from my local place.

I would like to know more about this building work Mike!

@AtomicShrimp

17 күн бұрын

There will be some bits of it in the next couple of 'random stuff' videos

as someone who dislikes orange juice with pulp this is just another level of unpleasant to me, glad you're enjoying though

@dominicharvey6048

17 күн бұрын

Funny enough I only like orange juice if it has bits in it lol

@Jhud69

17 күн бұрын

Bubble tea is veery different from OJ with pulp in my opinion.

@dominicharvey6048

17 күн бұрын

@@Jhud69 very true

@danielrhymes4593

17 күн бұрын

I personally hate pulpy orange juice, but I love popping boba. The texture of the alginate is very different to unfiltered orange juice, and something about popping the boba with my tongue on the roof of my mouth negates the surprise of Sudden Unexpected Texture!, which is part of what I dislike about pulped orange juice. Not that there's textures, necessarily, but that the change in texture is sudden.

So the magical boba tea might summon a shower if you shack it just the right way? Neato!

A blob straw and blob table😄

Strangely, this table is triggering some form of trypophobia type response from me. I don't usually have trypophobia but the table is somehow unsettling.

I definitely have a preference for the fruit tea with fruity popping boba over the milk tea with tapioca balls, I find it more refreshing. Maybe that's why you liked this one more? Definitely something I will look for the next time I'm in TKMaxx!

I didn’t know blob drinks were a thing