bats

That's a removal not an additive though.

Stinkypup

Jeez... The sausage topic was way more fun....

Pizzawheel

I wanted to know about summer sausage flavoured honey too.

Oink

I'm going to stop off for some honey garlic chicken wings on the way home.

dbd33

This evening, on a dirt road near Mount Forest, we passed a table with a sign, "Honey $9". I don't know the name of the road but can direct you from highway 6 if that's helpful.

No sausage was offered on that trip.

not2old

keeping on the honey trail...

You'd be surprised the number of varieties of honey out there

Exploring Honey Varieties

For now, Its going to be 'Natural Honey' that 99% of the (gobsmacked) population think they're purchasing, never looking at the ingredients or reading the label & purchasing whatever is on sale

On sausages, wings & ribs....

Of the 'honey flavoured foods' - my wife will only eat 'Honey Garlic Chicken wings', never the hot or spicey

Its 'mild italian' sausages for me, without honey


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Stinkypup

Ok, back on track...

Not sure about the fennel, unnecessary addition.....oh, honey likewise

JonboyE

Around here ...

Welcome to Honeybee Centre

Piff Poff

My neighbour's give us a couple of jars from their bees, it's yummy honey!

Stinkypup

Weirdly I thought of this

BristolUK

How do the little things get the lids on?

Not to mention the wrapping paper.

Oakvillian

As with so much pseudo-scientific claptrap from the "organic" movement, that is bollocks. "Bee pollen" - ffs, bees do not produce pollen. Pollen comes from plants - the reproductive cycle of honey bees is interesting enough (drones mating with the queen; the queen in turn controlling which of the eggs is fertilised, hatching as females, or unfertilised, hatching as males...) but does not involve the production of pollen.

It is certainly true that some commercial honey producers micro-filter their honey to remove all traces of pollen. This is usually done because the pollen can identify the geographical source of the honey, so if you take the pollen out the testing labs can't work out that the honey comes from somewhere else (typically China, where the hygiene standards for beekeeping and honey processing aren't as strict as they are in Canada and the US.)

Cheap honey may actually contain honey-flavoured HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) but in Canada it would have to declare that on the label. Most honey sold here doesn't have an ingredients list as such, because it is 100% honey. In the same way that Shredded Wheat doesn't have an ingredients list because there is only one ingredient.

There are genuine health claims for the allergy-suppressant qualities of locally produced honey, and there is little doubt that as a sweetener honey is a better option than many others (such as the aforementioned HFCS). But the organic food movement does itself no favours by promoting half-truths, twisted pseudoscience, and blatant rubbish.

One of the reasons organic honey is so expensive is that it's very difficult to produce - the hives need to be at least 3km away (i.e. in the middle of a 28 sq km circle) from any urban centre, farm, golf course, etc, that uses chemical fertilisers or pesticides - that rules out quite a lot of the populated area of the country. For the OP, I'd follow everyone else's advice and find a local producer through Google or your local beekeepers' association - local (non-"organic") production is likely just as good for you as the $30-a-jar organic stuff.

Edo

Have you tried it yourself?