But, isn't blended honey mostly an excuse to use cheap rank honey, heated
to drive off some of the awful flavor, then blended with something more
palatable to make it less of a rank product.

Excuse me, this is a hot button for me.

I'm not hung up on blended honey being honey from multiple beekeepers, all
of a high grade...

It would seem to me that honey marked Unblended or Single Source meaning
one apiary could be seen as a good thing and go for a premium.

I grew up with BillyBee brand in Canada.  Today it seems largely
Argentinian with some Canadian mixed in.  They got caught with Nitrofurans
in their honey, and they lost complete credibility in my eyes.  (Of course,
when they had credibility, it was 45 years ago and I was just a little gaffer).

I guess what I'm saying is there's blended honey (multiple source) and then
there's blended honey (rank crap that's the bulk of the product, processed
to kill the savor of dirty gym socks, blended with the minimal amount of
good honey so as not to send you to the porcelain throne head first.

Ok.  Ok.  I'll calm down and play nice.

At 12:00 AM 6/10/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>With all the blended honey out there, and some of it already listing the US
>as one of the countries of origin (even though it's likely to represent a
>very small percentage),  it may be much more useful to label the country or
>counties of origin and the percent they contribute.  And they should be
>listed in order from most to least (just like ingredients in other food
>products.)

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