Re:Fancy honey might not actually be honey
by alecst on Sunday March 08, 2020 @05:54PM
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Well, I like honey because good honey tastes different from plain sugar. Traveling in Greece I tasted some honeys that were unlike anything I had ever tasted before, ranging from bitter, to floral, to earthy. It's the sweetness, sure, but not only the sweetness.
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Re:Fancy honey might not actually be honey
by robbrown451 on Sunday March 08, 2020 @09:11PM
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I suspect you can get equal or better flavors elsewhere. If it comes from the clover, couldn't you just get them from the flowers?
I'm not suggesting honey flavors have no benefit, but it just seems odd that we have chosen those specific flavors as being tasty (honey and maple), when their primary attraction was that they came with sugar which was otherwise scarce (but no longer is).
Re:Fancy honey might not actually be honey
by lonelappde on Sunday March 08, 2020 @11:12PM
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But that's all flavor is. Yes it's an obsolete sense, but we are animals not computers. We can't download a new taste program to change what we like.
Re:Fancy honey might not actually be honey
by robbrown451 on Sunday March 08, 2020 @11:41PM
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Are you saying that desire for honey is hard wired into us? I believe that's true for sugar, but not the additional flavors in honey.
Anyway, people buy fake honey simply because they think it is honey. So I don't think it is the specific taste that you can only get from actual honey.
Most people these days buy fake maple syrup (since real is so expensive), and tests have shown most can't tell the difference from real, and many prefer the fake.
Rob I'm not disagreeing with your greater point but do you mind linking me to some of these taste tests with maple syrup? I could only find one in a cursory search online and it was between two people. Sorry to bug you!