Skysamurai said

Would you drink old tea? Like B.C. old?

A friend of mine saw this article on NPR (National public radio) and I thought you would all like to see it too.

But seriously… would you drink it? I don’t think I could get myself to do it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/26/464437173/worlds-oldest-tea-discovered-in-an-ancient-chinese-emperors-tomb?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160126

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sensiblyscript said

Drink an irreplaceable historical artifact? That sounds like a special kind of crazy. :P

Rasseru said

Maybe just sample it :P

AllanK said

While I agree you shouldn’t drink an irreplaceable historical artifact I also don’t imagine the tea is drinkable after 2100 years of storage. They had not yet invented puerh tea yet and I don’t even think a puerh tea could last so as to be drinkable after 2100 years.

Rasseru said

haha yeah of course im just having a joke. – I would imagine is was like grey dust by then

sensiblyscript said

Grey dust? So . . . kind of like what you find in tea bags? ;)

AJ said

No, puer tea would not be drinkable after that amount of time. And the fact that they had to do a series of tests to even determine it WAS tea means you would be drinking pure dirt if you tried. I doubt it’d make you sick, but you wouldn’t enjoy it.

This coming from someone who isn’t afraid to lick a rock or chew some soil to pinpoint a mineral composition.

Would you drink old tea? Like B.C. old?

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