Comment on That gourmet luxury blend...
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 8 months agoAs other people said, in the EU with “honey blend” you’d expect a blend of different types of honey, as it wouldn’t be allowed to be call honey unless it was pure honey. Having to decipher “made with real honey” to mean “its not real honey” is just fucking odd. Flip it over and look at the ingredients and its just a list? Why no percentages?
Gourmet stuff comes in all sorts of weird packaging and shitty stuff comes in fancy packaging, so having to assume it is corn syrup because it’s in a bear shape is also weird.
No rules for food labelling is wild.
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
And, in the US you’d expect it to be something blended with honey. Different expectations, neither one of those expectations is unreasonable.
Right… and it’s not called honey, it’s called “Texas Honey Blend”. If it were honey it would be called “Honey”.
You don’t have to “decipher” that, you just have to look at the fact it’s a blend, not honey. The “made with real honey” is just additional confirmation that yes, it’s not pure honey.
Because different food rules? Why percentages?
Gourmet stuff doesn’t come in bear-shaped plastic bottles.
It would be, if it were the case. But, that’s definitely not the case here. It’s just different from the rules you’re used to. The core of your comment seems to be “this is different than what I’m used to, and I’m shocked!”
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 8 months ago
You know what else is odd? That you’re staunchly defending this label with barely any information on it. Pretty much every point you’ve made is “but why does it need information”…
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Barely any information on it? My guy, are you blind?
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Oh sorry, you’re right, there’s an address for more info. I shall scribe my correspondence post haste in order to discover the nature of the product on the shelf.