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- pimpinainteasy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+49Either it contains lead, or its not really from China.
- fatcat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36I was in a Tea shop in San Fransisco and they were selling some of these for $2,000 a pound, and he said that they can go for up to $15,000/pound.
Don't get me wrong, I love tea, but thats a little over kill. - RoroCo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34Don't jump into a well established industry. Be creative man. Monkey Picked Pot.
Just be careful... Nothing is funny about a field full of thieving monkeys with a sever case of the munchies. - meachen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29monkey flavored tea?
- gallowspole, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Wow, I guess I can stop selling pot now.
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20I swear, the Chinese could train monkeys to wipe their asses with tea leaves and sell it to the rest of the world for $5000 a pound.
- FreakyD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20"Whether it be legend or simply a cheaper form of labor,"
There's a cheaper form of labor? - Darren05, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Pray for MOJO!
- duggtodeath, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Could Monkey Butlers be far off?
- Roger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I see your weasel-digested coffee and raise you cat-crap coffee:
http://www.coffeebeanqueen.com/coffee-beans/cat-crap-coffee.aspx - Monkeybrains, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Monkey picked tea, what could be cooler. Monkeys love all sorts of menial labor. And cigarettes.
- Slovenian6474, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Monkey: "hmm, if i were getting tea, i'd get the earl grey over there"
Me: "Thanks monkey!"
-Monkey Picked Tea- - NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8On the other hand, if they give you a monkey that prepares and serves it to you, it might be worth it.
- Roger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8No, this isn't any ordinary monkey flavored tea. This is rare Chinese monkey flavored tea.
- datastorageguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Hi can I have a steaming cup of monkey feces and bubonic plague please?
- Kronos6948, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I'm sorry, but I'm not so sure I want someone who flings poo to be picking my tea leaves.
- Hockey37, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6What?
- KingGorilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6robots duh. we wipe out the entire lower class and replace them with robots
- No13Baby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The monkeys probably have better working conditions
- jessdub99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Anyone else think this was about a rare chinese monkey choosing tea? I kept thinking, what were it's options?
- tnoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Given that a big stereotype of monkeys is of them handling and often throwing their feces around.. I think I'll pass on this.
- subwoffers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I don't know about you, but I don't want someone's monkey touching my tea.
- elants, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The packaging states "Monkey Picked Tea" and there is a fine illustration of a monkey heading towards a bush. What else do you need?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Clearly, the video is all the proof I need. What a great shoot!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That filthy monkey made the orange juice your drinking.
- Otto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Honestly, why does crap like that even make it onto YouTube?
- timbro1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Monkey-Picked Tie Guan Yin
Once a tribute tea reserved exclusively for the enjoyment of the Imperial court, Tie Guan Yin (also known as Iron Goddess) is one of China's 10 most famous teas. Today, the term "monkey-picked" simply means the highest quality available. The tea brews an amber infusion with a fresh orchid fragrance and a smooth and full-bodied caramel flavor. Legend has it that monkeys were trained by monks to collect the leaves from the branches of the wild tea trees growing on steep mountainsides. Our monkey-picked tea was picked and processed by masterful human hands using techniques at least two centuries old. - ToadLeg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Corporations are always looking for new cheap labor opportunities.
- WindReaver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wow... so THAT'S the next rung on the out-source ladder.
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I for one...
Nah nevermind - Otto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You could call it Monkey Weed!
- gamlidek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's called monkey-picked because of the location of the trees (high on steep cliffs) where supposedly only a monkey can climb. Chinese tea pickers use ropes to gather tea in these areas and it does fetch a higher price because the quality of the leaves is changed by the location.
- DexDoomsday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'll be a monkey's uncle! A very rich monkey's uncle...indeed
- InfiniteNothing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What exactly is your guarantee that an actual monkey picked the tea?
- mateo60, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I didn't realize that they still used monkeys to pick it. I thought that was an old monk thing.
- 0crabby0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Chinese rare Dolphin picked tea would be the best...
lol - DavidRoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I would say that the name comes from legend. I own a tea store and have come across many teas with "Monkey King" in the name. I even have one, but its the same as a "Dragon Well" tea; it does not acutely come from a dragon's well.
The legend is that in ancient times the tea farmers were looking for exotic plants that grew high up on the rocks. They themselves could not climb up to get the tea, but they noticed monkeys running around up on the cliffs. So the tea Farmers threw rocks at the monkeys, and the monkeys, getting upset, grabbed the tea plants and threw them down at the farmers. - lbeaty1981, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Damn, the whole reason I came in here was to mention cat-crap coffee. Shoulda known someone would beat me to it...
- xdevit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'll stick with my civet crap coffee..
- dMinor04, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I like how the bag says "edible"
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That is racial....I mean ...species....um...'special' profiling.
(Isn't that special?) - WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I always thought DragonWell tea was called that because it keeps your dragon well.
But maybe that is only known by those of us actually born in a year of the dragon.
Or perhaps the reference to dragon well, for that early spring tea, is because, like a well that a dragon drinks from, it doesn't last very long. - WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In Soviet Union, ....(Nah nevermind)
- overtoke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I cry abuse!
- Technopope, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Why are stories from weirdasianews.com even ALLOWED here?
Everything that makes it to the front page of digg from Weird Asia News seems to be utter, complete bunk, which seems to spread across the web like wildfire. How can people BELIEVE this stuff? Don't they think? Can't they Google?
Monkey picked tea is NOT picked by monkeys. The name simply refers to a supposedly higher quality tea. No monkeys involved at all. - WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Mmmmmh, gamy!
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2yeah...how much do the monkeys actually demand for their labor? Do they have a monkey labor union?
- bravo1995, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I still don't understand why being in civet poop makes that coffee better.
- FRANKeB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Do!
- loganhid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3One day these tea picking monkeys are going to turn on us and make us do the dirty work and will use phrases like ''get you hands off me you filthy human''
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