Does bubble tea contain sheep feces that are high in protein, can make you high?
By Sarah Thompson
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A popular spoof post on social media these days links bubble tea, which usually contains chewy, usually black, tapioca pearls, and goats, which contain dark nuggets of another kind.
A collection of other photos of black tapioca pearls has some people claiming that this was sheep feces. The animal in question is actually a goat.
Also, bubble tea has some sugar and caffeine but there are no druglike compounds that would be like methamphetamine, as a recent post claimed.
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