Expensive tea made from Panda droppings

[Archbob]

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1604743/Panda-poo-not-everyone's-cup-of-tea


So, will anyone buy this? I can't see people lining up to pay $80,000 to drink panda crap.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Chances are we've all eaten a ton of excrement over the course of our lives. We only care when we're blatantly told such. How much excrement is on your toothbrush, after all?

I myself wouldn't drink it, but I'm sure some see it as having about as much waste in it as beer-baked goods have beer in them, and that will be the market for it.

 

[Kozmos]

I want to try Matcha but its hideously expensive.

 

[Antilogic]

I have consumed some stuff that I consider weird, but I'm going to stop at something that literally comes out of another animal's digestive tract. I'm human, after all. Let the lesser lifeforms enjoy this "delicacy".

 

[Lillefix]

Didn't Stephen Fry give Prince Phillip some coffee made from coffee beans that had gone through the digestive system of some animal?

 

[Antilogic]

The link mentions some coffee that is made from beans that have gone through an Indonesian cat's digestive tract, if that is what you are referring to.

 

[Lillefix]

The link mentions some coffee that is made from beans that have gone through an Indonesian cat's digestive tract, if that is what you are referring to.

Yeah, it was from the east somewhere. But I'm not going through several days of QI just to find out

I did anyway. It was coffee made of Cambodian weasel vomit, and it was for Prince Charles.

 

[Archbob]

Hmm, how can I cash in on this "make from animal droppings" market?

 

[Antilogic]

I did anyway. It was coffee made of Cambodian weasel vomit, and it was for Prince Charles.

I have to wonder, and maybe some other posters can enlighten me... who had the crazy idea to try this first? Seriously, who first looked at a pile of Cambodian weasel vomit and said "gee, I'd bet this would be a delicious brew!"

 

[warpus]

An Yashi is a college lecturer at the Sinchuan University believes the tea, which is fertilized with panda droppings, could prevent cancer and fetch a price of up to £50,000 per kilo.

An Yashi, however, is also clinically insane

 

[GenMarshall]

What's next?! Polished poop?!!

 

[Tani Coyote]

What's next?! Polished poop?!!

I imagine we're not far away.

But we already eat/inhale feces on a daily basis anyway. It gets on your tooth brush whenever you flush the toilet, for instance - you'd be amazed how far away those particles travel! It's just in such minor doses it doesn't hurt us. Washing hands and all that good stuff merely reduces the incidence of bacteria, not the presence.

Also keep in mind you eat vegetables which tend to have been fertilised with manure. That's washed out, but it doesn't change the fact every veggie you eat was once underneath a pile of excrement.

I don't think the poop actually is put in the brew, anyway - I think it's just used to fertilise the leaves. So, same principle as ordinary vegetables.

 

[Dumanios]

I wonder how much money I could make if I poop in a bucket, and then sell it on the internet, claiming it was from someone famous, like Barack Obama or Mr. T.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I wonder how much money I could make if I poop in a bucket, and then sell it on the internet, claiming it was from someone famous, like Barack Obama or Mr. T.

See how much Justin Bieber's hair or moldy toast with an apparent image of Jesus on it goes for.

If something is icky, it's icky.

Unless it has some obscure connection to someone famous, in which case it suddenly skyrockets.

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In a similar vein, people will give up everything to live just one more day.

So, given that this will apparently reduce cancer risk, chances are people will flood it and negate the "squick" factor.

 

[warpus]

But we already eat/inhale feces on a daily basis anyway. It gets on your tooth brush whenever you flush the toilet, for instance - you'd be amazed how far away those particles travel!

What?

I'm never brushing my teeth again.

 

[Kozmos]

Oh yes, that's why things degrade in the bathroom, the toilet flushing mists.

 

[Tani Coyote]

If you dye the water, I guess, and cover the bowl with a paper towel, you can actually see the particles of water hit the towel after a flush.

Either way, it establishes the precedent that waste particles get on everything in there eventually.

But hey, not much grosser than the fact there's likely an insect leg in your candy bar or skin flakes all around you in the air. Nature, as they say, is disgusting.

 

[Antilogic]

I imagine we're not far away.

But we already eat/inhale feces on a daily basis anyway. It gets on your tooth brush whenever you flush the toilet, for instance - you'd be amazed how far away those particles travel! It's just in such minor doses it doesn't hurt us. Washing hands and all that good stuff merely reduces the incidence of bacteria, not the presence.

Also keep in mind you eat vegetables which tend to have been fertilised with manure. That's washed out, but it doesn't change the fact every veggie you eat was once underneath a pile of excrement.

I don't think the poop actually is put in the brew, anyway - I think it's just used to fertilise the leaves. So, same principle as ordinary vegetables.

There's a huge, HUGE difference between unintentionally consuming PPM-levels of fecal matter due to poor sanitation and intentionally consuming the excrement of another animal. (I am assuming, based on what I remember from hours ago, that the tea is made by taking the excrement that still has tons of undigested stuff in it, and making a brew out of that.)

 

[Archbob]

If any of you ever taste it, I want a review.

 

[GenMarshall]

If any of you ever taste it, I want a review.

If you want to know, Eat Poop You Cat!!