 Baskin Robbins is trying to get their piece of this five billion dollar bubble tea market. What if they call a nice Boba? All right, everybody Baskin Robbins has just released its very own Tiger milk bubble tea it has tea in it It's based off the Tiger sugar milk drink. It also has brown sugar popping bubbles inside of it We're actually gonna try it at the end of this video, but David we got some questions Yeah, I mean it sparked a controversy in the Boba fanatic crowd some people support it Some people go against it. Some people are in the middle. So we got to talk about it. All right We're gonna talk about is it cultural appropriation but first let's talk about who is this actually for? Because I don't think it's for the Asian Boba drinking crowd David Some people are worried that it was gonna like take money away from the mom-and-pop stores, but I don't think it's true It's primarily for people in states that don't have Boba as well as certain demographics within larger cities like LA or New York or Houston where like maybe some people are like culturally uncomfortable being actually in an Asian Asian spot, you know So I think that you know Baskin Robbins is obviously wanting to get a slice of this potentially five billion dollar industry Like I think those are the projections for the Boba game globally in seven years It's all about money But people are worried because they're thinking that these American companies are gonna start serving Asian products because they have access to like that You know different markets than Asians have access to and they're gonna eat it all up Yeah, I mean they're probably afraid that somebody from Kentucky Indiana or Georgia is gonna come to LA for this to the 626 and be like Hey, this Well, this bubble tea drink is similar to the one that I had a Baskin Robbins You know Karabaskins the Tiger King. That's that was the collaboration. That's how I see it Yeah, I was told that it is from Canton Canton, Massachusetts. By the way, I love Taiwan East Pad Thai But I don't I don't know if that's gonna be the case guys. I wouldn't worry too much about it But yes, I do think it's mostly for the markets that don't have a lot of Boba Another big question I think people really want to ask David is is it cultural appropriation at all? Like should we support it? Should we hate it? Should we just let it be? I mean listen guys Coffee is gonna be like a hundred eighty billion dollar industry by the same time that Boba's like five billion dollars So it's like three percent or whatever and it's like most of that three percent Enter that five billion dollars right now is dominated by Asians So when the white companies come in or American companies, but you know, it's mostly run by white people They are they gonna grow the pie so or they're gonna try to eat the pie, right? Are they gonna have are they gonna grow it for everybody? So the Asian slice of it is right now. It's a smaller pie, but it's almost all Asian now If I think there's a Baskin Robbins next to a mom-and-pop boba shop, right? And Baskin Robbins starts serving Boba. Could it eat up that mom-and-pop market? Possibly, however, if you look at like the boba chains I think what Baskin Robbins is doing is maybe introducing a lot of people to the idea of bubble tea and therefore Increasing the overall market cap for people like boba guys are going to come in there and open up more locations Not only that where are they gonna source their materials from they may buy it from wholesalers in Asia You know a variety of different Asian countries now do wholesale boba products whether that's boba straws We know somebody who even took a company public selling boba straws Karen Look at this photo you would not believe how big this economy is guys I'm not defending Baskin Robbins because I don't know who's on their board or how many Asian people they just hired to go Launch this because they actually kind of failed with the popping pearls with Dunkin Donuts earlier If you guys don't know Dunkin owns Baskin Robbins and there was a big controversy because they did not attribute anything to Asians And that's why this time they made very sure to go oobish from Philippines The tiger sugars from Taiwan. Yeah guys. We said it Please don't cancel it guys. It's on our website Baskin Robbins, you know, I might help if you put up a little triangle of information in all your stores And just tell people the history of boba. Honestly, I think it would be cool I think it'd be cool I think there's always a fear of colonization right because if you look at the coffee industry Most of the beans come from I believe Africa and Southeast Asia or South America South America I'm sorry Africa and Southeast Asia, but a lot of they don't get to see the bulk of the profits They just get the thin margin or whatever from margin in the beans and obviously companies like Starbucks and etc Etc they're taking the bulk of the margin You could also argue that they're finishing the product, but it's complicated man It's complicated any time a white American company with super advanced billion dollar infrastructure and all the analytics goes into a mom-and-pop Field like boba, right? David people are Skeptical people are scared people don't know what to do, but to me. I'm like guys. This is the world. This is America It's capitalistic. We just got to learn how to roll with it just like jujitsu Because everybody who's like arguing that we should protest it and everybody who's like all you guys are so stupid and woke He woke arguing against the people who are angry. They're both missing the point, right? You guys should be riding this wave to the wave is the way we can't control the wave The wave is that Asian flavors are really delicious both ube tiger sugar, etc, etc I'm sure that Starbucks, you know, they already do a matcha drink I wouldn't be surprised if Baskin Robbins is gonna have a matcha ice cream or a hoji chai ice cream on the menu within like Two years they have a matcha latte right now What are you gonna do as an Asian American to benefit from this versus just like arguing with each other about it because it's coming No guys figure out a way to benefit from the rise of Asian flavors that ultimately a lot of white owned Corporations will adopt maybe not as their own But they will use it to make money and that is part of the system that we have here in America David I also know a Korean guy who got rich from serving Tex-Mex food called Baja Fresh right so I'm saying that's that and nobody really caused a controversy about that also guys The guy who started whether the Tex Mexians not offended though Yeah, I did the and the guy who started Taco Bell is not of Mexican descent, right, right? I know that it is fair to though that a lot of Chicanos are Mexican Americans We know feel some type of way about yeah And you don't have to eat a Taco Bell You don't have to go to Baskin Robbins You can spend your energy hating on them if you want, but it probably won't do that much Especially in the fact that they're doing a brown sugar milk drink Which I actually think has the opportunity to be at least like medium level good Maybe not amazing, but probably not horrible. Just well You guys think they're on version 2.0 right now popping pearls were terrible from Duncan That was 1.0 now Tiger sugars 2.0. Who knows if they put the R&D in version 5.0 6.0 It could taste pretty good guys. So I think that Asian Americans we got to think about like okay Maybe you can open up a boba chain. I know tea pumps. That was their whole thing We're gonna be like renamed boba to be tea pumps for people who don't want to say, you know Like an Asian word also David. I have a question is brown sugar itself an Asian flavor Is that like matcha? Is that like uve is that like five spice? What if they do a five spice drink then um, that's really a but brown sugar and milk is obviously the Tiger sugar trend that they started But but brown sugar in itself has been around for forever I just like think percent Arabica came into the coffee game and really like left a dent in the game That's Japanese made coffee from Kyoto. They were pretty strong. I just feel like Asian Americans We got to understand that this tidal wave is coming and how are we gonna ride it? And but we're like arguing about whether the tidal wave is good or bad And I'm like guys. It's here. Yeah, just like argue about it for like ten minutes And then spend like three hours thinking about how you're gonna benefit from it. Oh, oh, oh, you wanted Asian representation in the media Those are still white owned corporations too, baby. This is just Asian representation in the food space So I don't know it is what it is. It's coming. It's here Asians didn't own like CRA either we were sitting Who do you think makes made most of the money from crazy rich Asians? All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching that Please let us know in the comments down below what you think are you gonna support it? Do you hate it? What do you think about this whole trend that Asian flavors are gonna be used by by American corporations? By the way, we are about to try the Tiger milk bubble tea right now They serve the Irish Bailey's flavor and they also serve the you know Italian tutti frutti. I don't know All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching until next time. We out Peace. Oh, yeah, you got your vanilla ice cream on top. You've got your brown sugar on the bottom swirls It looks meticulous like they said in the description Weird it's weird, but not bad. That's the best way I can describe it Something from some sort of legit hollow hollow mixed with thrift way bubblegum ice cream. You give it rating out of 10 Be real given the expectation 6.5