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December 20, 2005 12:03 AM
Broken: Monkey-picked tea
This tea boasts that it's "monkey-picked." Am I missing something here? (All I can think of monkeys picking is lice...)
that has disturbed me to the point of insanity. there. I am insane now.
this episode of sprockets brought to by foojoy's monkey-picked tea. it's what my monkey would pick if he wasn't so limited.
would you like to touch my monkey? touch him! love him! rühren mein affe. lieben meine affe-monkey!
This is a historical term. The Chinese used to employ trained monkeys to harvest certain teas which grew wild in inaccessible locations (such as on a cliff-face). In the modern world, this is no longer the case because tea is grown as a crop, like most other agricultural products.
"Monkey-picked" has become an anachronism; today it is attached to teas that are marketed as high-quality (and, of course, high-price).
For eal why would that make it more desirable I think about Monkeys picking thier noses and butts then picking my tea, yick !
ashley u know farmers use poop and pee etc. to make their crops grow better? so if monkeys pick their noses and buts think about the framers and what they use!!!
ashley u know farmers use poop and pee etc. to make their crops grow better? so if monkeys pick their noses and buts think about the framers and what they use!!!
A quick Google reveals that monkey picked tea is precisely that. Tea picked by trained monkeys.
As another commenter noted, the "weasel coffee", as well as the similar "civet coffee", are much more distrubing.
Huh. Just last night I was at Ruby Foo's and I ordered some "monkey-picked" tea. I thought it was just a whimsical name, like my woman's order of "nameless tea". I regret not asking if my tea was truly picked by monkey.
At least it's untouched by human hands ...
Besides, would you want to drink tea that a monkey *refused* to touch?
Probaly not a mistake.. after all there is an exotic coffee($150 a pound) that is collected from the Feces of the civet cat...
I agree with Alden. A definite "information overload". Wish I had eaten breakfast before reading all this.
Have you ever eaten HONEY? How about CATFISH, LOBSTER, or CLAMS? HOT DOG? HAGGIS? Do you believe in the 5-SECOND RULE?
If so, how can you complain about a monkey touching your food?
You know when some people say 'a monkey can do this job'? Well aparently sometimes that is just the case.
I like the plastic jug of Coffee-Mate behind the Monkey Picked tea. There's just nothing like a $1.59/pound synthetic additive to really bring out the flavor of $100/oz. tea.
Oh, and I have eaten Haggis. Wonderful stuff. The best reaction I ever got by telling someone about Haggis was a guy who, after hearing all about the ingredients and preparation, deadpanned "But I really don't like oatmeal."
Uhh... maybe it was translated and could mean someting else? or maybe it's a "native" saying ("Native" being to the country it was created in.)
Since really good tea is actually the "bud and two leaves" from the growing tips of branches, monkeys would waste a lot of it. When there was a lot of wild tea, that might have been acceptable, but- really- monkeys are no longer employed for this purpose. Some teas of this type sell for upwards of $45,000 per pound- not a typo- and that's no monkey business. The can pictured above is at the "low end" of Ti-Kuan-Yin; and it's still really good compared to what most of us drink.
My current supply of this variety runs about $180.00 a pound- but I get at least four really good pots of tea from one rounded tablespoon of leaves.
Is it worth it? After thirty years of tea-drinking, yeah, it is to me. But try the Foo-Joy stuff, at least- it totally kicks ass on Lipton, Twining, Bigelow, etc....and monkeys will fly out my butt before they pick tea in China.
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lookin like some engrish to me. but if not...
Posted by: gmangw at December 20, 2005 12:32 AM