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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Given how expensive it was then, that's not surprising!
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Tea itself was used as currency. Kilo bricks of tea would be compressed into flat divided cakes, hard as wood, for transportation over the Tibetan mountains on Yak-back. These bricks could be sawed into those divisions as payment to the sherpas along the way.
You can buy these tea bricks today from McNultey's Tea in N.Y. but it really tastes as if the Yak were still attached to it...
By the way, tea is eaten in many parts of Tibet, Napal, western China, eastern Mongolia, etc. After using it to make a hot beverage, it is mixed with butter (Yak, cow, goat,) a bit of salt added and eaten as a vegetable. It too tastes as if the Yak was still attached to it...
Even canned lima beans taste better.
Stitchawl