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by scruffmcgruff » Jan 13th, '08, 02:52

skywarrior wrote:I'd rather have a cat pick my tea. You don't know where that monkey hand has been!

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Ah yes, but I DO know where the cat paw has been. Litter box!
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by tenuki » Jan 14th, '08, 00:03

I believe the monkeys in question are great apes, great hairless apes....
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too funny

by bearsbearsbears » Sep 5th, '08, 14:08

Hilarious post by phyllsheng on monkey-picked teas, with guffaw-worthy images...

http://phyllsheng.blogspot.com/2008/09/ ... k-tea.html
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by hop_goblin » Sep 5th, '08, 15:50

I heard thru the grapevine that Sal is so serious about his oolong that he even has a couple of trained chimps on stand-by at home for the picking season!
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by Salsero » Sep 5th, '08, 17:25

hop_goblin wrote: I heard thru the grapevine that Sal is so serious about his oolong that he even has a couple of trained chimps on stand-by at home for the picking season!
I treat them like members of the family.* There's talk of paternity testing, but so far I have avoided that. Course, you know they won't let me have puppies any more.





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by ABx » Sep 6th, '08, 01:56

Isn't it properly "Monkey Pick" Tie Guan Yin? Training monkeys wouldn't be very practical, but it makes a point.

Phyll's page is great, though :)
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by murrius » Sep 6th, '08, 14:49

I'm sure if trained monkeys were in "tea trees" for any length of time, tea leaves wouldn't be the only thing dropping to the ground. Not a good marketing strategy.

"New Improved Monkey Picked Tea - Now with the goodness of monkey droppings!"
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by hop_goblin » Sep 6th, '08, 17:17

Salsero wrote:
hop_goblin wrote: I heard thru the grapevine that Sal is so serious about his oolong that he even has a couple of trained chimps on stand-by at home for the picking season!
I treat them like members of the family.* There's talk of paternity testing, but so far I have avoided that. Course, you know they won't let me have puppies any more.





*That way I don't have to pay them.
They do resemble you Sal! :lol:
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by ABx » Sep 7th, '08, 03:04

Part of me actually thinks of this as a good thing. I remember seeing this same tea (same packaging and all) posted somewhere else, and one of the comments was "PG Tips will never taste the same again." If someone buys it for the novelty and gets turned onto good tea as a result...

And if anyone else actually believes that it's picked by monkeys, then they should just start sending me their money instead :P
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by Maitre_Tea » Sep 10th, '08, 14:13

Come to think of it, how do you train monkeys to pluck the right leaves, and how can you make sure they're not picking with too much force?
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by bearsbearsbears » Sep 10th, '08, 19:45

Maitre_Tea wrote:Come to think of it, how do you train monkeys to pluck the right leaves, and how can you make sure they're not picking with too much force?
Shock collars, of course :twisted:
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by gingkoseto » Sep 26th, '08, 16:34

Heehee, that's a myth.
There are stories of ancient tea farmers training monkey to pick the tea leaves. But they are just stories.
"monkey pick" is a fun way to describe the high elevation where the tea trees grow - that is to say, the tea trees grow in mountain peaks where only monkeys can reach and humans can hardly. Authentic "monkey picked" oolong is a wild variety of oolong and therefore always grows at high elevation. When people pluck tea leaves, they have to do rock climbing and have themselves protected with ropes. When they swing with ropes attached among cliffs and rocks, they look and act like monkeys - that's why this tea is "monkey picked".

After all, which geek will really believe moneys pluck tea leaves :-p

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