The Honey Thread

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I saw this article and thought of Barriehie but I also remembered the recent reporting that the vast majority of honey we buy isn’t just honey, it’s adulterated with other cheap ingredients. So here you go a honey thread.
I appreciate it the thread may need to bee (sorry) moved as the honey conversation winds it’s way from ‘news’ and as I don’t like honey I’ll probably be one of the first people setting the thread fairy’s wings flapping but here we are honey!

A moment that changed me: I tasted honey so sublime, I gave up my career to keep bees
 
Here, you can buy honey on almost every other street or road from people's front gardens and there are company's locally that sell their honey in farm shops, where it is literally just poured into a 5kg tub. It's not filtered or adulterated in any way.

Shame I only really like honey when I'm ill.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I saw this article and thought of Barriehie but I also remembered the recent reporting that the vast majority of honey we buy isn’t just honey, it’s adulterated with other cheap ingredients. So here you go a honey thread.
I appreciate it the thread may need to bee (sorry) moved as the honey conversation winds it’s way from ‘news’ and as I don’t like honey I’ll probably be one of the first people setting the thread fairy’s wings flapping but here we are honey!

A moment that changed me: I tasted honey so sublime, I gave up my career to keep bees
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Good read SSOAP! 👏

I don't buy honey at the grocery anymore. There's an apiary several miles down the road and they sell right from the hive.
 
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I get my honey from the bee expert who cleaned out the nest of African bees from next door. Wouldn't dream of buying honey in a supermarket.
I've also got a friend who has a honey company. She produces 6 or 7 different types of honey, depending on where the flowers come from. Could be from a mango tree, could be wild herbs, could be an acacia tree; and all the honey tastes different. (Of course it does, but I'd never had though that having been brought up on honey in a plastic pot with a bouncing bear on the label.
I confess to using honey mostly for salad dressings and to slather on greek yoghurt.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I'm sorry, I didn't know it was offensive! I've been called a "Murican" and other terms but never found any of them offensive...
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Don't worry, I'm not offended. Although we are all British Citizens here, we are English, Scottish, Welsh. Separate countries... then there is Northern Irelnd not in Britain, but in the UK.
As devolution is discussed more, we are being forced to see ourselves as separate.
 
Herbie said:
Don't worry, I'm not offended. Although we are all British Citizens here, we are English, Scottish, Welsh. Separate countries... then there is Northern Irelnd not in Britain, but in the UK.
As devolution is discussed more, we are being forced to see ourselves as separate.
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Yes, I was aware of the separate countries.

I live in Ohio (Midwestern US) but I'd probably resist a bit someone called me an Ohioan or Midwesterner because I'm not from here originally...but anyway. Guess I'll go make a cup of tea!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Yes, I was aware of the separate countries.

I live in Ohio (Midwestern US) but I'd probably resist a bit someone called me an Ohioan or Midwesterner because I'm not from here originally...but anyway. Guess I'll go make a cup of tea!
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I'm from the south of England and now live in the midlands. Locals call me a Southerner, and Southerners call me Northern 🤣.
 
Herbie said:
I'm from the south of England and now live in the midlands. Locals call me a Southerner, and Southerners call me Northern 🤣.
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Don’t worry…when I drive an hour north, everyone calls me a stupid hillbilly, and when I drive an hour south, everyone calls me a damn Yankee!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I love the stuff. I know you Brits are going to throw your kettles at me but I love it in my tea with cinnamon. Ducking and running for cover now...
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The term Brit is not offensive at all unless it’s being used in a derogatory way.
Sometimes it’s attached to sneering commentary from other EU countries for the less delightful behaviour of some holiday makers in some hot spots. That’s when we become “Bl**dy Brits” same way I imagine sometimes people say “Bl**dy Americans” etc.

Anyway - you can run but you can’t hide, the tea police are vociferous 😂
 
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