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Fun fact:
The word "boba" came from the Chinese word for "large breasts".
The boys were probably asking for those.
not true. please stop spreading misinformation. Boba (bôba) is originally a vietnamese word meaning 'eggs of man'
edit: this is a joke guys come on
It is true, but it also goes a little deeper than that. In the 1980s, Amy Yip, a Hong-Kong sexy actress, was extremely popular in Taiwan along with her nickname "波霸" (boba, or "the biggest balls" in Cantonese). Around the same time, people started to put tapioca pearls in drinks, and called the bigger tapioca pearls "boba."
In recent years, people do consider it's improper to use such a term and has been slowly moving to more SFW words as "大/小珍珠" (big/small pearls) in Taiwan, but "boba" has stuck too deep in the English speaking world.
Source: me, a Taiwanese in 30s that basically grows up with boba drinks