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[Great Order]

Oh no, like it tells you to dispose of them (Which kind of defeats the point?)

From what I've looked up there's absolutely nothing wrong with them. Unless you get them from a dodgy source (Because of toxic additives, not because they're made from cassava funnily enough. All the work to remove the cyanide only to put poison back in) they should be absolutely A-OK to eat even raw, just they can give you an upset stomach if they are undercooked since they'll expand.

I dunno, maybe it's a translation error, or maybe they're just being overly cautious so nobody tries to sue them in the event they cause illness. Apparently too many can cause constipation too.

[King Zultan]

Strange that they tell you to throw them out, I mean if they think they're that bad to eat why sell them in the first place?

[hector13]

It’s clearly decorative tapioca.

[Great Order]

I reread the instructions, I think it's a translation error with the grammar. I think it's meaning to tell you to dispose of the water you cook them in, but it reads like it's telling you to bin the tapioca balls.

[delphonso]

If you transcribe it, I might be able to help. I'm fluent in poorly translated Chinese-to-English.

[scriver]

My mind melded your two post into "I'm fluent in tapioca-to-English"

[Great Order]

If you transcribe it, I might be able to help. I'm fluent in poorly translated Chinese-to-English.

Doesn't matter, I've had a full pack so far and I've not vomited myself inside out so I think it's safe.

[Frumple]

Turbocancer activate in three, two, one...

[hector13]

I foresee Great Order becoming Tetsuo the Iron Man but with tapioca instead.

[Rolan7]

Hm, so maybe Sprout Woman?  A robot master, but plant themed https://www.deviantart.com/ultimatemaverickx/art/Sprout-Woman-472793805

[Eric Blank]

I thought about a horrible flesh blob of tapioca pearls mixed amongst various tissues with roots and leaves sprouting from it. I have creepy pasta in my DNA though and saw a meme on imgur earlier where someone claimed to have a sharp pain in their palm to find a tiny plant had sprouted under their skin, like a seed that got wedged in as a sliver and decided "this counts as soil time to germinate!"

[Laterigrade]

My mind melded your two post into "I'm fluent in tapioca-to-English"

A useful skill, to be sure.

[Loud Whispers]

I thought about a horrible flesh blob of tapioca pearls mixed amongst various tissues with roots and leaves sprouting from it. I have creepy pasta in my DNA though and saw a meme on imgur earlier where someone claimed to have a sharp pain in their palm to find a tiny plant had sprouted under their skin, like a seed that got wedged in as a sliver and decided "this counts as soil time to germinate!"

Even now the evil seed of what you have done germinates within your soil.

[Il Palazzo]

I was looking up some stuff in a dictionary (the Dictionary.com, formerly Lexico), and landed on 'yesterday'. The dictionary lists two pronunciations, one ending with /-deɪ/ the other with /-di/. In the British English section it renders ending with /-dɪ/ as the primary one.

Now, the question is for you native speakers (mainly Brits, but anyone really): does anyone actually say it that way, with the single final vowel and not the diphthong? I lived in the UK for a few years, and can't recollect any other pronunciation than /-eɪ/. Furthermore, I've just checked in Youglish, which provides pronunciation snippets from various videos over the internet, and I can't here the short /-i/ or /-ɪ/ ending there either.
Is this an error, a particular dialect, or have I just managed to never hear it by accident?
And if anyone is aware of a video with an example of such pronunciation, do provide a link.

dictionary.com entry: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/yesterday
Youglish entry: https://youglish.com/pronounce/yesterday/english/uk

[Loud Whispers]

You might hear some people say it like that from Devon or Ireland