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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm guessing this is a US thing? At least I've never heard of it before as a european and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be allowed to be sold as honey here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, us Canadians have to check the label to make sure the honey is Canadian, otherwise its usually 50% corn syrup.

Another easy tell is if you don't mix it for a couple months it splits, and all the corn syrup floats to the top.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

American here ... we're really sorry. We don't like it neither; but the corporations, you see? they need their profits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Another American here … I have literally never seen honey that’s been stepped on.

What brands do this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same, and I eat a fair amount of honey. Even when I buy cheap stuff on the road, it’s 100% honey. Maybe there’s some Dollar General store brand that’s severely discounted and cut, but I’ve never seen it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you on the coasts or in the flyovers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Home base is coastal, but I travel all over the US for work. I spend between 30-50% of the year on the road. I admit, not a ton of that time is in middle-of-nowhere Wyoming.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Also very much a problem in Europe sadly. Of course not allowed, but pretty hard to detect. There are test that can tell the difference, but they are not accepted by the EU (yet?).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

i mean this is solved by not buying imported honey, even here in sweden i can just go on a walk around the area and find at least one person selling honey from their backyard at a perfectly resonable price, so i don't see the point in buying imported unless you're a colony of bees in a trenchcoat and need it to survive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It is a thing. I think it started with "pancake syrup" being corn syrup with brown color and artifical maple flavor. You know, Big Buttersworth