Fancy honey might not actually be honey

Re:Fancy honey might not actually be honey by tyoma on Sunday March 08, 2020 @03:37PM (#22520043)

Why all the talk about globalization?

The problem is US-based companies fraudulently representing sugar syrup as honey. Would it make a difference if they called locally produced sugar syrup “Tennessee Honey”?

The use of Vietnamese syrup over domestic syrup is irrelevant to the overall fraud.

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Re:Fancy honey might not actually be honey by dsfyu404ed on Sunday March 08, 2020 @03:52PM (#22520130)

We went through all this same stuff circa 1880-1920 and that's what lead to the rise of "brands" because you didn't know what was in some random white box soap but at least you knew you could trust Dove(TM) soap not to have nasty stuff in it (or whatever, just an example).

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Re:Fancy honey might not actually be honey by TeMPOraL on Sunday March 08, 2020 @06:36PM (#22521108)

You could. Now, you can't. Because a) known brands are pulling their own shenanigans, b) white-labeling of China manufactured goods on Amazon, et al. essentially turns into a DDoS on the idea of brands.

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