toppings, sinkers, or middlers
Oct. 24th, 2021 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weefangirlEarlier this mor-night when my partner got home, we talked about whether or not the black pearls (boba) that come along with your milk-tea be regarded as Toppings, Sinkers, or Middlers. It was definitely attributable to this entry, specifically this excerpt:
"I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. It tasted rather coffee-y and sugary instead of strawberry-ish. Bummer! Although it's probably because I chose coffee jelly as Toppings instead of boba. To be fair, I thought they meant ‘top’pings, as in the stuff you glaze over the TOP of something, not sink down the bottom! There should be a word for it, maybe bottings, whatever. >:0"
We promptly considered the accuracy of Toppings, only to backtrack after realising that the boba doesn't really stay at the top, it sinks to the bottom. Sinkers it is.
"But wait, Toppings also makes sense. They glaze it over the TOP."
It was also a possibility, but the café's label really confused me, so we went back to regarding Toppings as a silly name to call something that sinks down the bottom. We concluded that it really should be called Sinkers - here's the question that stopped by our craniums, and the argument used to counter it:
A1: "It can't be called Sinkers because you initially glaze it over the top."
C1: Yes, but anything that sinks start at the top - x and y can't sink down if there's nothing it can submerge into.
Anyway, people would assume the sinkers would stay at the top if you called it Toppings, because that's what I thought when I first saw it, and it lead me to buy a glass of strawberry-flavoured milk tea with coffee jelly sinkers. NOT a good combination.
Haha, thoughts?
"I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. It tasted rather coffee-y and sugary instead of strawberry-ish. Bummer! Although it's probably because I chose coffee jelly as Toppings instead of boba. To be fair, I thought they meant ‘top’pings, as in the stuff you glaze over the TOP of something, not sink down the bottom! There should be a word for it, maybe bottings, whatever. >:0"
We promptly considered the accuracy of Toppings, only to backtrack after realising that the boba doesn't really stay at the top, it sinks to the bottom. Sinkers it is.
"But wait, Toppings also makes sense. They glaze it over the TOP."
It was also a possibility, but the café's label really confused me, so we went back to regarding Toppings as a silly name to call something that sinks down the bottom. We concluded that it really should be called Sinkers - here's the question that stopped by our craniums, and the argument used to counter it:
A1: "It can't be called Sinkers because you initially glaze it over the top."
C1: Yes, but anything that sinks start at the top - x and y can't sink down if there's nothing it can submerge into.
Anyway, people would assume the sinkers would stay at the top if you called it Toppings, because that's what I thought when I first saw it, and it lead me to buy a glass of strawberry-flavoured milk tea with coffee jelly sinkers. NOT a good combination.
Haha, thoughts?
