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Americans: I'm so used to being lied to about literally everything that this doesn't seem that bad.
Smh...
I guess this is pretty American of me, but it's called "honey blend" for a reason.
I’m American, and honey blend implies to me that it is a mix of different types of honey. Like clover honey and whatnot. Kinda like a Red blend wine is a mix of different wines, not 50% merlot/50% rubbing alcohol or something.
I thought it was my EU brain interpreting it that way. The alternative, like your wine example, is basically a black market cut product anywhere else.
Clearly, and nothing personal here and I'm sure this honey company are good people, but my comment was more addressed at the larger societal issues of being an American (which I am) and how we're constantly lied to and how we've normalized that 100%. So that small things like this don't seem worth calling out. This particular label is not that bad, but in other countries, as others have said here, the label would be even clearer. Europeans don't have to read between the lines with phrases like, "Made with..." to know that's not the same as "100% made with ...". That's all.
Just like American blended whiskey is a little bit of whiskey, neutral grain spirits, and caramel coloring.
It isn't that bad.
It says "made with real honey", which is a pretty big clue that it isn't real honey.
It says "texas honey blend", again indicating that it's honey blended with something.
And, as for "gourmet" it's in a plastic bear-shaped container, it's not a luxury item.
If people want to buy stuff made from high fructose corn syrup, shouldn't they be allowed to do it? How much more obvious does it need to be that this isn't pure honey?
You sir are on the right side of the IQ bell curve. We need packaging that people on the left side of the bell curve can understand.
As 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.
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!"
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"...
Barely any information on it? My guy, are you blind?
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.
So, despite the ingredients being listed, you're still confused? Do you have a brain injury?
No, I grew up eating foods that I could be certain weren't made up of 99% corn syrup.
How do you know? Apparently you're not capable of reading the label!