Do you eat honey?

Scanlas The 2nd

I've recently begun eating honey, didn't realise how nice the stuff is.

Anyone else have thoughts on honey or favourite types?

Mr.Crinklewood

Yes luv.

xx

Max Power

Holy Jaysus..

branie

Too sweet for me

TheBody

Smear in on your balls op (assuming your male) and let the dog lick it off.

Custardpi

Only with peas, but that's just to make sure they stay on the knife. It tastes a bit weird of course but I've always done it.

admiralofthefleet

I think my wife is going insane.

She said "Honey, can you unload the dish washer please?"

Next thing you know, she'll be asking the marmalade to take out the bins

Rasheed

Manuka is the job, I'm addicted.

kneemos

A lot of it comes from China and is not top quality apparently.

admiralofthefleet

Rasheed wrote: »

Manuka is the job, I'm addicted.

why is it so expensive though? i was going to make flapjacks during the week with it but when i saw the price of the 15+ i changed my mind

Lenin Skynard

Only with hot whiskey and allegedly on cereal but I doubt that's actual honey.

flutterflye

I think it comes from the divil himself. Disgusting stuff altogether.
I can't eat anything that even has a hint of honey in it.

Mountainsandh

every day, with herbal teas, and in porridge.
Some friends of ours send us this massive, 2.5 kg (no kidding) pot of honey from the Black Forest every year, it's beautiful and very different from Irish honey.
Since I love Irish honey too, I sometimes buy a small pot of locally produced one, for a change.

gurramok

Honey is good for you. Take it for that cough, sore throat, cold and use it externally to treat wounds. Before advanced medicine came along, honey was used to treat many ailments. Enjoy your honey!

Rasheed

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

why is it so expensive though? i was going to make flapjacks during the week with it but when i saw the price of the 15+ i changed my mind

It's suppose to have healing properties! And it comes in different strenghts, the higher the strength, the dearer it is. I've seen it used on leg ulcers as well as people taking it for sore throats etc.

It's milder and thicker than ordinary honey, that's why I like it, but you're right, it's mad expensive.

juice1304

Mmmmmmmmm Bee vomit

hfallada

I keep my own bees and most people that hate honey like mine. As a majority of honey even it sounds irish produced is chinese and full of anti biotics and was banned by the EU at one stage the level of chemicals was so high.

A local irish produced honey is almost as good as manuka, as manuka has had millions spent on research which a small company company cant afford to show that its honey is as good.

languagenerd

Just started using this week as a sore throat remedy - few spoonfuls mixed with hot water (and a drop of lemon juice if I have it) and it really helps with hoarseness, etc.

We also use it to glaze vegetables (carrots, parsnips, sweet potato, etc.).

Never ate/used it at all until last year. It's actually quite nice, who knew?!

Ficheall

Don't they have to boil manuka honey before export to remove all the "impurities", rendering it less beneficial than ordinary honey?

Capt'n Midnight

kneemos wrote: »

A lot of it comes from China and is not top quality apparently.

A lot of it comes from China and is not honey.

You can identify where honey comes from by looking at the pollen in it.

A lot of the Chinese "honey" has the pollen filtered. The only reason you'd filter honey is to hide it's origin.

hfallada

languagenerd wrote: »

Just started using this week as a sore throat remedy - few spoonfuls mixed with hot water (and a drop of lemon juice if I have it) and it really helps with hoarseness, etc.

We also use it to glaze vegetables (carrots, parsnips, sweet potato, etc.).

Never ate/used it at all until last year. It's actually quite nice, who knew?!

For sore throat buy one that its a commercially produced one. As some companies to stop honey solidify (which is 100% natural) heat the honey killing all goodness in it.

The best thing is to just put it on a spoon and eat it. As putting it in hot water kills most of the enzymes and goodness

languagenerd

hfallada wrote: »

For sore throat buy one that its a commercially produced one. As some companies to stop honey solidify (which is 100% natural) heat the honey killing all goodness in it.

The best thing is to just put it on a spoon and eat it. As putting it in hot water kills most of the enzymes and goodness

Really? I've been mixing it with hot water, and it really helps my voice come back for a while (enough to hold a conversation, whereas before I wasn't able to do anything other than croak). I'm probably not getting any of the long-term benefits then, but short-term, it works!

Ann22

Cider vinegar and honey is meant to be brilliant for all manner of diseases and ailments. I love honey when it's the waxy creamy type...yum..:)

JonEBGud

Honey doesn't go off. Honey was found in one of the Egyptian tombs, which was thousands of years old and it was still edible.

hfallada

languagenerd wrote: »

Really? I've been mixing it with hot water, and it really helps my voice come back for a while (enough to hold a conversation, whereas before I wasn't able to do anything other than croak). I'm probably not getting any of the long-term benefits then, but short-term, it works!

Like its still effective just not as much

mud

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I've recently begun eating honey, didn't realise how nice the stuff is.

Anyone else have thoughts on honey or favourite types?

I love good honey. Got a pot of Sarah's Honey with Walnuts before christmas. It's so delicious

Holsten

Hate the stuff, never touch it.

cantdecide

For about the last five years if I eat any kind of quantity of honey I have to lie down for the day. My stomach feels like I'd swallowed a hedgehog.

Am I the only one?

swimming in a sea

I saw a program about urban Dublin Bee Hives, sounded like a nice idea until I thought would you want your honey been from flowers that some junkie bum was pissing on and are exposed to all the exhaust fumes from city traffic.

C.K Dexter Haven

They love honey in the mustard forum

Mmmmmmm honey and mustard mmmmmmmmmmm

mufcboy1999

Manuka 15 for me the last few months, expensive stuff too. I often put it on my chicken/turkey,toast etc ... Love it.

starlit

Its nice in a cereal but seriously though you swallow/drink it rather than eat it unless it in something like cereal? Like it added like caramel, hazelnut or vanilla you catch my drift...

Tweej

I like peas with honey,
I've done it all my life,
It makes them taste quite funny,
But it keeps them on my knife!

Doc Ruby

Spangles wrote: »

Squeeze of honey
Half a lemon's juice
Disprin
Add water warmed in the kettle and stir

It helped me through my cold and is probably a lot healthier than the packet stuff !

A couple of Polish wans advised me to take a bulb of garlic crushed into warm milk for the cold this season. Didn't help the cold but I surely didn't get anyone else sick as nobody would come within fifty feet of me.

Honey is great stuff, they've pulled it out of the pyramids still edible. Actually they used to douse dead bodies in it for a century then squeeze out the resultant goo and sell it as a cure all. History, eh.

Lia_lia

I am eating it right now.

On toast.


Omnomnomnom

Ficheall

Lia_lia wrote: »

I am eating it right now.

On toast.


Omnomnomnom

OMG! ME TOO!!! :eek:

I think this thread is at least partially to blame though. That, my hunger, and honey on toast being the easiest meal in the house to prepare.
I'd love a pizza

DesperateDan

John that's a fairly random site you've linked us to there

Itwasntme.

I have a love-hate relationship with it. Mostly hate. I crave it about twice or three times a month and absolutely hate it the rest of the time.

lounakin

6 month old +, lavender honey on bread and sea salted butter: heaven.

lg123

Rasheed wrote: »

Manuka is the job, I'm addicted.

I get this manuka from NZ, it's unreal. Some difference with the cheap brand of honey, couldn't go back.

Martyn1989

I know it's hard to get in Ireland but if you come across creamed honey get it, you'll be milling your porridge with a squeeze of it

Killer Wench

Lia_lia wrote: »

I am eating it right now.

On toast.


Omnomnomnom

Yep. Smear some peanut butter and drizzle a bit of honey.


*faints*

cherryghost

Where do they sell Manuka honey in Ireland?

DEFTLEFTHAND

I'm a little Kodiak bear with round ears and course brown fur, I love honey..:)

lynski

use a lovely local honey for the last few years, delicious. spoon it into the kids when they are sick to help them over coughs etc.

juan.kerr

Whatever happened the Honey Monster?

DEFTLEFTHAND

juan.kerr wrote: »

Whatever happened the Honey Monster?

He died of a drug overdose.

stoneill

juan.kerr wrote: »

Whatever happened the Honey Monster?

Still producing his vile sperm, putting it into jars, then putting pictures of bees on it.

Ella

Jesus no. Makes me gag. Honey and coconut are the devils food.

zcorpian88

Lovely in ready brek, try it if you haven't. Also a good way to get yourself off sugar if you're fond of it in tea.

juan.kerr

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He died of a drug overdose.

That's sad.