I was permanently banned from the Reddit sub without recourse for posting this despite not breaking any rules. I’m slowly making the migration over thanks to such encouragement.

  • @Guntrigger@feddit.ch
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    23 months ago

    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.

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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      13 months ago

      in the EU with “honey blend” you’d expect a blend of different types of honey

      And, in the US you’d expect it to be something blended with honey. Different expectations, neither one of those expectations is unreasonable.

      as it wouldn’t be allowed to be call honey unless it was pure honey

      Right… and it’s not called honey, it’s called “Texas Honey Blend”. If it were honey it would be called “Honey”.

      Having to decipher “made with real honey” to mean “its not real honey” is just fucking odd.

      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.

      Flip it over and look at the ingredients and its just a list? Why no percentages?

      Because different food rules? Why percentages?

      Gourmet stuff comes in all sorts of weird packaging

      Gourmet stuff doesn’t come in bear-shaped plastic bottles.

      No rules for food labelling is wild.

      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
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        13 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”…