<My daughter-in-law has worked several stints in south Uganda and  brought
home a jar of "wild bush honey" It tastes exactly as described in the
previous post. Un-eatable.>

I've been in counties where I've met, talked to, and watched honey
hunters.  I suspect that what you consider un-eatable is not what they  consider
un-eatable.  In fact, I suspect they'd prefer the taste that they  expect.

In addition, honey hunters view honey in very different ways than we do -
its a spiritual exercise.  They sing to the bees, compliment the bees,
never mention stinging, have various requirements for purity of the hunter,
etc.  The honey looks and tastes DIFFERENT from hived bees, and that's what
makes it valuable.  Raw honey from the comb, such as that of Apis dorsata,
where they use smoke and fire-brands to harvest, is considered to have highly
desirable medicinal and other (e.g., viagra-like) attributes.

If it tasted like sweet honey, it would lose its value.

Jerry

P.S.  Some of our friends from S. American countries where barbecue is  a
main way of preparing entrees hated our sweet barbecue sauces in the  USA.

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