Honey

[Anonymous No.13766532]

Let's talk honey /ck/

Recently tried the Arabic stuff, and after years of supermarket honey I honestly can't go back

[Anonymous No.13766709]

>>13766532
Honey was a poor person's sweetener in the olden days and now liberals are handing over their shekels for it and thinking it's going to make them "healthy". But there's no such thing as healthy food, so-called "experts" can't even tell the difference between your overpriced meme sweetener and normal food. Enjoy your scam you stupid hipster.

[Anonymous No.13766715]

>>13766709
not him but where did he mention health benefits.....
talk about your own personal rant

[Anonymous No.13766723]

>>13766532
i don't eat honey since i'm vegan but i'll gladly have some agave syrup.

[Anonymous No.13766724]

>>13766532
I can't eat this.
LITERALLY touched and produced by insects.

[Anonymous No.13766730]

܂>>13766532
Anybody who doesn’t realize that supermarket “wildflower” and “clove” honey is the shittiest available honey is a fucking retard and needs to find someone who sells locally produced honey
I can guarantee it will be 100% better unless the person you’re buying it from is a fucking faggot and doesn’t take their bees to local farms

[Anonymous No.13766744]

>>13766730
unless you get it directly from the farm yourself its yellow corn syrup

[Anonymous No.13766752]

>>13766744
>what even are FDA regulations

[Anonymous No.13766758]

>>13766532
Honey is the nectar of the gods. Idiots like >>13766709 and >>13766724
can't even begin to understand that. Delish infused with the land the bees inhabit. Pure, crystallin, true gold.

[Anonymous No.13766786]

>>13766730
Keep being buthurt, you'll never raise bees and collect honey from your children.

[Anonymous No.13766805]

>>13766723
You know that apiaries are keeping bees from the edge of endangerment and agave nectar harvested as a plantation monocrop that leaves a massive ecological footprint, right?

[Anonymous No.13766825]

>>13766709
Fuck are you talking about "meme sweetener"

[Anonymous No.13766832]

>>13766805
i'm sorry anon but i adhere to a pain and cruelty free diet, the ecological implications are none of my concern.

[Anonymous No.13766835]

Honey isn't vegan, delet this thread

[Anonymous No.13767022]

>>13766832
Wow, so you’re an idiot as well as a hypocrite. That’s about right for a hipster vegan though. Rampant virtue signaling without meaningful understanding of the impact of your actions.
Enjoy your osteoporosis.

[Anonymous No.13767064]

Anyone tried the Manuka stuff? A friend was recommending it to me but it's ridiculously expensive in comparison.

On the other hand, I recommend "Sidr" and Russian flower honey; former has a very strong, luxurious taste while latter is light and fruity.

[Anonymous No.13767109]

>>13766532
Lol there aren't bees in the desert anon

[Anonymous No.13767182]

>>13766532
Just buy local honey if you don’t have the space or time to make your own

[Anonymous No.13767184]

>arabic

good work falling for another jew scam

[Anonymous No.13767185]

order honey from japan, as with all other ingredients, theirs is the best.

[Anonymous No.13767202]

>>13766709
>i don't use it and therefore it's a meme sweetener that people eat because it's healthy and not because they like it

Try and put some of that stuff on greek yogurt and you'll see

[Anonymous No.13767229]

>>13766532
Best honey is raw, wild jungle honey. I get mine from an uncle who goes to Burundi/Rwanda every year and brings back a gallon. Changes flavor everytime, lighter in winter, powerful in summer, always delicious. I've tasted some good euro honeys too as long as they're properly made/are single flower sourced like lavender, orange blossom, walnut(bittersweet), etc. I haven't found any arabic stuff that wasn't hideously overpriced or more commonly, fake shit with sugar syrup, in the morrocan/turkish/syrian shops i've frequented.

>>13767109
Yemen has some pretty good shit apperently.

[Anonymous No.13767243]

>>13766723
I've literally never understood this autism.
So it's wrong to eat honey, but it's ok to kill bugs that are infesting your house? Because there's no way when a cockroach infestation starts in your house you'll just throw your hands up and go "Well, it's the roaches house now"
Vegan values are completely arbitrary and bullshit, what makes roaches who infest your house have a less valuable life than bees? What if in exchange for honey we give bees a better life? Vegans just decide what animals get to live or die by how much the animal inconveniences them, which is even more pathetic and virtue signaling than, let's say, a vegetarian because vegetarian values are a lot more consistent.

[Anonymous No.13767265]

܂>>13766786
Huh? I’m saying big commercial beekeepers are bad and local beekeepers are good, both for the fact that the honey is better and local beekeeping is good for the environment.

Idk how you got so mixed up that you thought I was somehow against beekeeping, but you should probably go back to school if you’re this fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.13767270]

܂>>13767229
How does he collect honey from wild bee populations? Does he just say fuck it and destroy the whole hive in order to get honey?
I’m assuming in a jungle the need for bees situation is a lot less dire than elsewhere, but if that’s the case, it’s still pretty fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.13767285]

>>13767270
He usually just buys it at a market or pays a few people to go do it. They smoke it out and take everything usually (I've seen this done when I lived in SEA), bees just rebuild and there's enough of them, some even encroaching on human habitation.

[Anonymous No.13767294]

>>13767270
bees are worthless anyway the vast majority of pollination is done by male mosquitoes

[Anonymous No.13767322]

>>13767294
I hope you’re pretty, because you’re sure not smart

[Anonymous No.13767387]

>>13766532
Floridian here.

Avocado honey on cheese, savory things. It's tastes almost buttery and herbal-green, but with no bitterness.
Orange blossom and key lime blossom honey for teas, toast, topping oatmeal, recipes, etc.
Mango honey is hard to find, and I can only assume it gets tainted by florida holly plants, because there are certainly large mango groves, but when you get it, it's right up there with lychee/longon.

>>13767064
Manuka honey is just a honey that is studied for the health benefits. It's not delicious, just high demand.

I order lychee honey from thailand, such dude I found on Amazon, since I can't find it much anymore in S. Florida farmer's markets.

[Anonymous No.13767487]

>>13767387
avocado honey? the fuck, i'm ordering some of that immediately
sounds awesome

[Anonymous No.13767507]

How to distinguish between fake and real honey quickly?

[Anonymous No.13767515]

>>13766709
>there's no such thing as healthy food

[Anonymous No.13767521]

>>13766532
>the Arabic stuff
It's an explosion of flavor.

[Anonymous No.13767524]

Went to this hipster ass apiary/meadery and picked up a bunch of shit. I don't think the type of honey matters nearly as much as how close to the source you are, this shit was miles better than anything i've ever gotten in a store.

[Anonymous No.13767528]

>>13767515
he's right, though. there are things that are ok to eat and things that aren't. none of them are "good" for you.

[Anonymous No.13767549]

>>13767524
>I don't think the type of honey matters nearly as much as how close to the source you are
The type matters more than anything else, with regards to flavor.
If you want to be close to the apiary, great, but honey doesn't spoil, so farm to table freshness isn't the reason...buy it online from an apiary and honey company anywhere in the world. Being close to the apiary means you might benefit from anti allergen reasons to consume local honey from the area's local weeds and plants to whose pollen you might be sensitive to. It's the innoculation mindset when it comes to health.

[Anonymous No.13767596]

>>13767524
Hipsters are insufferable faggots but they have good tastes

[Anonymous No.13767626]

>>13766532
Anyone know how apple blossom honey is? I'm getting a small orchard and I'm thinking of taking up beekeeping.

[Anonymous No.13767670]

>>13766532
how much did it cost and for what size?

[Anonymous No.13767689]

>>13766532
he thinks he's eating honey and not colored HFCS.

[Anonymous No.13768218]

>>13767596
t. hipster in denial

[Anonymous No.13768322]

>>13767689
you're confusing honey with maple syrup

[Anonymous No.13768354]

>>13767243
Also, bees are in trouble at the moment, and vegans depend on them in order to pollinate and produce fruit & vegetables. You'd think they'd be very pro-beekeeping. Do they think that bees are somehow being mistreated or some stupid shit?

[Anonymous No.13768366]

>>13767670
$80 for 30oz

[Anonymous No.13768370]

>>13766723
>NOOOOO NOT THE BUSY BUZZ BUZZ BEEEEEEES

[Anonymous No.13768388]

>>13768218
Desu I like a lot of things hipsters do, and like hipsters, I can't fucking stand actual hipsters. God fucking end me.

[Anonymous No.13768391]

>>13768388
checked, your fate is sealed

[Anonymous No.13768464]

>>13768391

[Anonymous No.13768473]

>>13766709
A lot of olden poor people food is now hipster food. Probably because of the idea that old = traditional, no chemicals = healthy

[Anonymous No.13768474]

>>13768473
this, organic is a meme. i buy 1$ chickens

[Anonymous No.13768483]

>>13768474
organic chickens are a meme
free range is not a meme

free range chickens taste way better and it's just not necessary to torture chickens so cartoonishly evil over a few bucks.

[Anonymous No.13768484]

>>13767487
>>13767387
Any flowering plant can be used to make honey (unless it’s poisonous to bees but most aren’t, including shit that’s deadly to humans)

I’ve had avocado, buckwheat, orange blossom, wheat, sage, and a bunch of others from this local vendor (SoCal). They’re all unique and they’re all delicious.

[Anonymous No.13768505]

>>13768484
Similar experience here. We have a local farmers market and the bee keeper brings different honey based on plants are in season for the bees to polinate.
My favorite has been pomegranate honey.

[Anonymous No.13768754]

>>13768505
That sounds good, I don’t think I’ve seen that even though they grow here too. My favorites were avocado and sage, but buckwheat by far had the most distinct flavor (it didn’t even taste like “honey”).

[SUBMIT No.13768798]

>arabic honey
ok, but why

[Anonymous No.13768804]

>>13767265
>>13767265
>>13767270
wtf why are the >> on the wrong side

[Anonymous No.13769419]

>>13766832
Keep animals then, maybe slaughter them when they get old, the only real alternative for pigs and chickens is going to a factory farm or getting released and dying in the wild.

[Anonymous No.13769443]

>>13768804
newfag

[Anonymous No.13770953]

>>13766723
I almost took the bait
7/10

[Anonymous No.13771046]

>>13766805
Honey bees are an invasive pest that are driving out all the native bee species because greedy bee farmers don't give a fuck a out the environment unless they can abuse it for a profit.

This myth that honey bees are essential needs to die, they're only needed for pollination in a few areas where they lived naturally before humans spread them around the world.

[Anonymous No.13771053]

>>13768354
Bees are only an essential pollinator in the few areas they are native to - namely Europe, Africa, and bits of Asia. Everywhere else they are outcompeting the local pollinators that the ecosystem relies on due to human intervention preferring "useful" species.

[Anonymous No.13772004]

>>13768754
Buckwheat honey is delicious and molasses-y. A granny smith apple, some sharp cheddar, and a bit of buckwheat honey is a blessed snack.

[Anonymous No.13772434]

>>13769443
there's no reason to lash out just because you don't know why either.

[Anonymous No.13773396]

>>13771046

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[Anonymous No.13774760]

I wish I was rich enough to buy fresh honeycomb all the time. I fucking love it.