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If goji berries are the new miracle fruit of the twenty first century (cure-all of cancer! blindness! liver disease!), then what does Jesus think of having his powers usurped by a tree? I mean, technically his father was once a burning bush, so it couldn't have been that much of a step down. This digression is walking down the paths of hellfire, I feel it.
Anyways, promoted as the Tibetan (and sometimes Himalayan) Goji, it tries to differentiate itself from common wolfberry by the simple promotion ploy of being named after an idyllic place where the image invoked has the men out in the open pasture heroically trying to keep the cattle in a herd, the women dressed in primitive woven blankets washing clothes in the river, and pretty much anywhere you step is guaranteed a ready pile of steaming goat poop. Essentially, an Asian Texas.
So it is unfortunate that the Tibetans don't actually like goji. They are confused that people would want it for 20 dollars an ounce. The chances are high that the goji you bought from the health food store is probably from an obscure place in the world but not Tibet. It's much less romantic when the label is something like Kansas, which is entirely possible though unresearched on my part.
And really. Even if there were such a thing as the Tibetan goji, I think white middle income hippies would shudder to think that the profits are all going to the big bad communist China.
Though I'm sure somewhere out there, the Chinese government is cackling madly, with "TIBET IS MINE BITCHES". As they do on occasions.
Anyways, promoted as the Tibetan (and sometimes Himalayan) Goji, it tries to differentiate itself from common wolfberry by the simple promotion ploy of being named after an idyllic place where the image invoked has the men out in the open pasture heroically trying to keep the cattle in a herd, the women dressed in primitive woven blankets washing clothes in the river, and pretty much anywhere you step is guaranteed a ready pile of steaming goat poop. Essentially, an Asian Texas.
So it is unfortunate that the Tibetans don't actually like goji. They are confused that people would want it for 20 dollars an ounce. The chances are high that the goji you bought from the health food store is probably from an obscure place in the world but not Tibet. It's much less romantic when the label is something like Kansas, which is entirely possible though unresearched on my part.
And really. Even if there were such a thing as the Tibetan goji, I think white middle income hippies would shudder to think that the profits are all going to the big bad communist China.
Though I'm sure somewhere out there, the Chinese government is cackling madly, with "TIBET IS MINE BITCHES". As they do on occasions.