Honey laundering... how drole.

It's a good thing they beehived themselves, or there could have been trouble.

I laughed at the headline. Nicely done.

Well, that's pretty farking strange, but hey, it's another good reason to buy honey from a local farmer. It's fresh, you know where it originated, and it's often very competitively priced.

What is illegal honey?

We'll see who takes home more honey!

/bzzzzz

♫ The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is that Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs ♫

and so forth. You're welcome, fark.

Good. A lot of these importers feed sugar water to the bees and sell the result (usually mixed with real honey to give it some sort of flavor) as "honey". If it isn't made from nectar (ok, the shellac bug counts too) it is not honey. On the other hand it probably tastes better than knottweed honey. I got a bunch of that from the mountains once and nearly wound up throwing it away. It looked like honey, smelled like honey, but it tasted like sulfur. Fed it all back to the bees.

The All-Powerful Atheismo: ♫ The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is that Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs ♫

and so forth. You're welcome, fark.

woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

m1ke: We'll see who takes home more honey!

/bzzzzz

Did anyone measure the lead content of the honey?

6655321: Did anyone measure the lead content of the honey?

No, they were too busy measuring the honey content of the honey.

Nobody messes with my honey! She's definitely the one-man type.

Loren: Nobody messes with my honey! She's definitely the one-man type.

Is she illegal?

LOL!!!

$80M import duty on $40M worth of product?

Most of you are too young to remember the Al Qaeda Honey for Money scare of the 2001s and 2002s.

i ate my crayon: $80M import duty on $40M worth of product?

yeah, they do that sort of thing to encourage buying local...

The snitch that tipped off the police;

Floyd approves.

thread jack..why did pooh say oh bother? what does it mean?

ultraholland: First you get the honey, then you get the power, then you get the women.

I thought maybe, just maybe, with just 29 posts in the thread, that I might be the one to make this comment. Oh well. Congrats.

jermicide: yeah, they do that sort of thing to encourage buying local...

it's not only for economic reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_the_honey_bee

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I'm probably missing something obvious, but can anyone explain the part about the antibiotics?

several times previous to this, Chinese honey has been seized that was infused with chloramohenicol. it's a potent antibiotic that prevents bacterial/fungal growth can, incidentally, can cause aplastic anemia in humans (a bone marrow disorder that can be fatal). it's banned in the US.

can = and

Originally this was a decision by the United States that China was dumping honey on the US market, defined in this case as selling it for the same price as before despite US beekeeper's expenses increasing, causing the price of locally produced honey to rise.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: orius: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I'm probably missing something obvious, but can anyone explain the part about the antibiotics?

several times previous to this, Chinese honey has been seized that was infused with chloramohenicol. it's a potent antibiotic that prevents bacterial/fungal growth can, incidentally, can cause aplastic anemia in humans (a bone marrow disorder that can be fatal). it's banned in the US.

Okay, so it's bad, but why are they putting it in the honey?

Longer shelf life.

Bear in mind the honey is coming via a slow boat from China, with laundering stops in between.

First you get the honey.
Then you get the power.
Then you get the women.

What an illegal honey may look like...

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: orius: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I'm probably missing something obvious, but can anyone explain the part about the antibiotics?

several times previous to this, Chinese honey has been seized that was infused with chloramohenicol. it's a potent antibiotic that prevents bacterial/fungal growth can, incidentally, can cause aplastic anemia in humans (a bone marrow disorder that can be fatal). it's banned in the US.

Okay, so it's bad, but why are they putting it in the honey?

as above: "prevents bacterial/fungal growth"