Monkey Picked Tea
September 17th, 2007
Nothing new really but I spotted this on Digg today: Monkey Picked Tea!
That’s right – in a remote Chinese village they train monkeys to pick tea leaves for the local and its then sold on as a delicacy. As much as I’d love the novelty of monkey picked tea I’m a bit skeptical as there’s a huge list of places selling it and I can’t see how a single remote village even packed with monkeys could manage such industrial levels of production!
I’m not sure how being picked by monkeys enhances the quality of the tea in any way