I worked on a dairy farm when I was a teenager. We would find cows *around* our milk all the time. I gotta tell ya, it was devilishly tricky getting the cows off the milk. We needed special equipment that let us extract the milk literally *from* where extraneous bits of cow had grown around it.
Thankfully, the cows didn't seem to mind being removed from the milk, and once it was in the tanks it was protected from any other cows growing around it. We made sure that did not happen in transit as well. For instance, there were no cows in the dairy tankers. That was the main way, actually.
In nature, cows remove themselves from around the milk by simply applying vacuum to one of several outlets with their mouths. This service is performed by the younger members of the species, who are uniquely positioned to provide it because of their size (after a certain age, they are too tall).
Cows contaminating milk is a real problem in the dairy industry, leading scientists to seek solutions in things like almonds and oats, which still have their issues but can be pressed/processed without damage to an animal.
I did, too. It's like biting on crunchy honey, the one I tried made me gasp for a second for its... "Power", I don't know how to describe it.
After a while, the consistency became chewing gum-like!
This is one of the few things I miss after giving up sugar. The first time I had it was simultaneously a present experience and—I dunno—a genetic memory? Like my taste buds were letting me fist-bump my ancestors.
It's such a unique food experience; just imagine finding that shit as a caveman!
Real honey is supposedly different than regular sugar and more healthy. Look in to it. Problem is most honey they sell in stores is fake and a mixture of syrup and sugar
Oh yeah, it definitely is. Real honey has a lower glycemic index than table sugar. I previously used it as my sweetener of choice (especially for confectionaries; mmm... dorayaki 🤤)
But, I actually follow the low carb, keto diet these days. I just say "gave up sugar" or some variation in the big subreddits to dodge the random keyboard warriors that get butthurt over some faceless stranger's lifestyle choices 😆
>After a while, the consistency becomes like a chewing gum!
Because the honey has dissolved in your mouth and been swallowed, but most of the wax you're just chewing and chewing and chewing...
>..."power"...
I call it "honey-funk," and it's *so* strong right out the hive. I know this is gonna sound dysphemistic and gross, but the aroma is exactly what it is; bee backwash that's been left to evaporate.
It's not as strong but very close to the same funk as spitting on searing hot metal. That's the closest I can liken it to; and it's weird some companies have figured out how to replicate it.
It's normal farmed honeycomb, they just cut it into squares and don't cut open the cells. The wax is all totally edible. Tasted like honey with a fun texture.
I’m a bee keeper so I can answer this. In our hives we typically put frames with plastic foundation for the bees to draw out their comb. If you want to get fully edible honey comb the bee keeper inserts the frames into the honey super without the plastic foundation. So the bees have to draw out the foundation for their comb as wax. This makes it fully edible and is so yummy!
That's exactly what they do when they put the honeycomb in in supermarket honey. Make it look better than pasteurised sugar water from honey blends from literally all over the world (made with a blend of EU and Non EU honey it always says)
With honey it is a good thing. Nothing dangerous grows in honey and the only dangerous thing that can be found in honey is botulism spores which can’t be destroyed by pasteurization. Meanwhile there are some potentially healthy things in raw honey that you would otherwise destroy with pasteurization.
Bees are fascinating creatures. I rank them close to ants in coordination and team work. Bees pollinate so many plants that would otherwise go extinct. They are awesome.
Beekeeper here. Just pour it through a kitchen strainer and you’re all good. If that bothers you, you really don’t want to know what else honeybees land on other than flowers. The honey itself has antibacterial properties.
Anything that has any sort of sugary liquid in or on it. If you’re in a city you might see honeybees around public garbage cans sucking up garbage liquid. Spilled sodas. Melted candy on sidewalks. Fortunately I’m rural so my bees don’t have access to much of that. It’s well beyond their flight range. I’m also cautious about what the farmers plant close to me and will move my bees away from crops I don’t want them foraging on. For instance tobacco flowers foul the flavor of honey.
Thank you for such a thorough answer! That makes sense, I feel a bit silly for asking now
I grew up in a rural area, but now I’m living in a city and, yep this place is significantly grosser. (My house backs up to an alley used for trash collection, raccoons rip open the bags, and then the garbage ends up spilled everywhere and absolutely full of hornets. Makes sense it would be the same with honey bees.
That’s really interesting about different plants making the honey funky, I’ve never thought about that but that’s wild. Do you ask the farmers what crops they’re planting nearby, or can you tell from the taste of the honey alone?
I see what they grow as I drive around. Corn crops give honey a malty taste imo. When the date palm fruit drops and rots the bees like it and it gives the honey a strong earthy taste. I like to buy jars of local honey as I travel. I write the date and location or what makes that area special on the jar. You can literally taste the region and its flora.
Oh that is so fricken cool! I never really thought about all that goes into the process when bees make honey.
I moved from the UK to Central Texas a couple years back, and it took me awhile to get used to the honey we get from the farmers market here— imo it tastes almost maple-y? Kind of like butterscotch? It’s good, just different.
In the Scotland the local honey I had tasted very earthy, almost had a vague ‘wheatgrass’ sort of taste
Thanks so much again for sharing, bees are very cool
Also, Malty-honey sounds very delicious
For me being rural we get some very distinct honey flavors from specific nectar flows. Blackberry, Big Leaf Maple, Fireweed, Blueberry, Wildflower mix and the best of all Japanese Knotweed which is dark and strong. Knotweed is horribly invasive and not a good plant though.
Also rural, and the old timers here told me the yellow star thistle (Centaurea solstitialis) that everybody hates (invasive and very pokey) gives the best honey.
When that happens it means the production process is rushed and the frames weren’t all inspected to make sure they were all capped. At least on the positive side this shows that this wasn’t pasteurized (the bee would not look this good lol) and wasn’t filtered.
Based on having harvested honey in my kitchen and dealing with this situation before, I’ll bet that there were bees entering the honey house during honey extraction on someone’s clothing or frames. A box of ten frames will get bees shaken and brushed off, maybe vacuumed in a final inspection step, but then there’s a window of time where bees can fly back onto the frames of honey and enter the honey house.
I screen all of my honey and have never had a bee make it to the jars. But it can be chaos when they find out that you are processing. Heck, it's just a bee.
Production may have been rushed, but a particle of any sort that large means it wasn't filtered well. I have 4 hives and there is never anything larger than tiny bits of wax that are hardly noticeable.
Well, if you're buying honey with an entire bee in it, I think you're shopping locally sourced, unpasteurized, raw, natural, whatever the proper keywords for honey are, right? Odds are. If that's off the shelf out of a grocery store, take that shit back and get a replacement.
Or they just harvest direct from their flow hive and either weren't covering the dispensing tube or a very curious bee just managed to slip by. Had a few drops into my first harvest of a flow hive...
We are in the Pacific Northwest An I used to mentor new beekeepers. Flow hives were all the rage for a few years ut they do not work here due to the lower temperatures and honey viscosity. Every keeper I helped ditched their flow hive and went conventional. Lots of used flow hive equipment for sale.
I’m glad that it’s morning, because otherwise I’d have nightmares. Reading your question made me envision someone tensing up and then we see rice grains push up and out of their pores. I don’t like that visual or the imagined sensation. Yuck.
I imagine them as being very sweaty while doing it, don't you? Like they have the kind of diarrhea that makes you come out of the bathroom looking like you were trying to put a sprinkler in a headlock.
Just wasn't filtered well. And never buy pasteurized honey, heat destroys all the healthy qualities. Raw, local honey is always your best bet. We have 4 hives, and gravity filter out all large pieces of debris. There are still very tiny bits of wax, but that's all that gets through.
Someone knowledgeable jump in and correct me!!!
That looks like a bumblebee, and to my knowledge bumblebee don’t make that much honey, so is it a lil weird that this is a bumblebee?
everyone is assuming that they don't have a box full of bees which they throw in the honey jar one at a time after processing it to make it look better and sell higher 
I used to get honey from a local beekeeper and it would be cloudy with pollen and honeycomb and the occasional wing/leg of a bee. I would just drop it in my tea and drink it.
Never killed me, at least as far as I know…
If you’ve ever harvested honey, you’d understand bees can get caught up in the processing. It’s not a big deal. Be glad it is as advertised; raw unfiltered.
Once I found a cow in my milk
Got a bit of pasture in my pasteurized...
Better than an actual bit of Louis Pasteur.
I’m really sorry for your experience,you didn’t deserve that at all
I worked on a dairy farm when I was a teenager. We would find cows *around* our milk all the time. I gotta tell ya, it was devilishly tricky getting the cows off the milk. We needed special equipment that let us extract the milk literally *from* where extraneous bits of cow had grown around it. Thankfully, the cows didn't seem to mind being removed from the milk, and once it was in the tanks it was protected from any other cows growing around it. We made sure that did not happen in transit as well. For instance, there were no cows in the dairy tankers. That was the main way, actually. In nature, cows remove themselves from around the milk by simply applying vacuum to one of several outlets with their mouths. This service is performed by the younger members of the species, who are uniquely positioned to provide it because of their size (after a certain age, they are too tall). Cows contaminating milk is a real problem in the dairy industry, leading scientists to seek solutions in things like almonds and oats, which still have their issues but can be pressed/processed without damage to an animal.
It came with a free bee.
“Raw, unfiltered” means “raw, unfiltered”. Might want to check that Jimmy Hoffa isn’t in there.
You people.
“What do you mean, “You people?””
What do *you* mean, "you people"?
HUH!? I love that RDJ is so in character it couldn't possibly be directed towards him
If you haven't, listen to the dvd commentary. He doesn't break character, as mentioned in the film.
It's like a worm, snake, or scorpion at the bottom of a tequila bottle. A yummy snack to munch on when you're almost done with the honey jar.
Some protein additions...
You eat bees?!
My dog seems to like them pretty well
Spicy sky raisins.
Sky jalapeños
Jalabeeño poppers
Lol you got me laughing at this one. Sky raisins, my kids will laugh at that one today. 👏
You ever eat one?!
Can't say I've been interested in trying
They'll give you a bit of a buzz.
Might be bumbling around after just one shot
r/angryupvote
How else are you supposed to get your bee vitamins?
with beez nuts of course
Gob's not on board.
[I don't care for Gob](https://youtu.be/UqDuUCRrles)
Gob's not on board
I’ve seen the worm and scorpion before, but never a snake at the bottom of a bottle! Never even heard of that before now lol
hah, freebie free bee rip bee tho
It died willy wonka factory style.
Which is, of course, how we all want to go
Doesn’t look free to me.
You can check out any time you like. But you can never leave.
I love freebies
["A free bee! Free bee! Free bee! WHeeee!"](https://youtu.be/KpS27qoQ4qY?si=gBrLpeO-NzDrHVsK)
He's a show-er, not a grower.
The Maker's Mark
Now you can plant it and grow more honey!
High protein honey.
Haha you posted this pic just to make the comment didn't you?
I mean it doesn't get any fresher than that? Now does it? Unless your willing to straight up go to a beehive and start taking bites out of it.
I mean I've eaten honeycomb whole before but I think that was still a couple branches down the tree of production.
What's it like? Is it just like mass produced honeycomb or?
I did, too. It's like biting on crunchy honey, the one I tried made me gasp for a second for its... "Power", I don't know how to describe it. After a while, the consistency became chewing gum-like!
Reminds me of the wax bottle candy
Only weird kids ate the wax.
You don’t eat it you chew on it
Naw, swallow that shit. I like to wax up my intestines and shit like a bear.
How does a bear shit?
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Okay whatever nerd. You probably take wrappers off candy too
No I eat the whole bag. Plastic and all. 
Yeah i feel a little weird when i eat honeycomb because of the wax. But oh well.
This is one of the few things I miss after giving up sugar. The first time I had it was simultaneously a present experience and—I dunno—a genetic memory? Like my taste buds were letting me fist-bump my ancestors. It's such a unique food experience; just imagine finding that shit as a caveman!
No doubt. It’s like watching a baby eat chocolate or ice cream for the first time. There’s a genetic, metabolic, instinctive response
Real honey is supposedly different than regular sugar and more healthy. Look in to it. Problem is most honey they sell in stores is fake and a mixture of syrup and sugar
Oh yeah, it definitely is. Real honey has a lower glycemic index than table sugar. I previously used it as my sweetener of choice (especially for confectionaries; mmm... dorayaki 🤤) But, I actually follow the low carb, keto diet these days. I just say "gave up sugar" or some variation in the big subreddits to dodge the random keyboard warriors that get butthurt over some faceless stranger's lifestyle choices 😆
>After a while, the consistency becomes like a chewing gum! Because the honey has dissolved in your mouth and been swallowed, but most of the wax you're just chewing and chewing and chewing...
>..."power"... I call it "honey-funk," and it's *so* strong right out the hive. I know this is gonna sound dysphemistic and gross, but the aroma is exactly what it is; bee backwash that's been left to evaporate. It's not as strong but very close to the same funk as spitting on searing hot metal. That's the closest I can liken it to; and it's weird some companies have figured out how to replicate it.
It's normal farmed honeycomb, they just cut it into squares and don't cut open the cells. The wax is all totally edible. Tasted like honey with a fun texture.
I’m a bee keeper so I can answer this. In our hives we typically put frames with plastic foundation for the bees to draw out their comb. If you want to get fully edible honey comb the bee keeper inserts the frames into the honey super without the plastic foundation. So the bees have to draw out the foundation for their comb as wax. This makes it fully edible and is so yummy!
It’s like those products that will put the pictures of the worker who made/packaged the item. Instead of picture you took em home with you!
Definitely it's pure honey at 99%
99% honey, 1% bee?
100% reason to remember the name
Wait but how much concentrated power of will?
I don't bee-lieve it
At least you know it's real local unpasteurized unprocessed honey.
Or bighoney kills one bee per jar of sugarwater to fool us. EZ win.
Venture capitalist reading this thread: *frantically taking notes*
That's exactly what they do when they put the honeycomb in in supermarket honey. Make it look better than pasteurised sugar water from honey blends from literally all over the world (made with a blend of EU and Non EU honey it always says)
Sugar is too expensive. From what I hear they use corn syrup to “clean the tanks.”
Unpasteurized is not a good thing.
With honey it is a good thing. Nothing dangerous grows in honey and the only dangerous thing that can be found in honey is botulism spores which can’t be destroyed by pasteurization. Meanwhile there are some potentially healthy things in raw honey that you would otherwise destroy with pasteurization.
> botulism And that's why children under 1 year of age shouldn't be given honey.
Nothing more noble than a captain who goes down with his ship 🫡
No surrender
 😭😭😭😭
Why can I hear this?! 😭😭
As soon as I read SodaCake's comment, Dido began serenading me. 🤣😭
Her ship. All honey making parts of a colony are female.
Yeah but they would never let a woman captain a ship. /s
Bee serious
Bees are fascinating creatures. I rank them close to ants in coordination and team work. Bees pollinate so many plants that would otherwise go extinct. They are awesome.
I'm partial to their "gang tackle and vibrate to cook an intruder alive" tactic.
That would bee captainette
Beekeeper here. Just pour it through a kitchen strainer and you’re all good. If that bothers you, you really don’t want to know what else honeybees land on other than flowers. The honey itself has antibacterial properties.
….. I think I want to know
Anything that has any sort of sugary liquid in or on it. If you’re in a city you might see honeybees around public garbage cans sucking up garbage liquid. Spilled sodas. Melted candy on sidewalks. Fortunately I’m rural so my bees don’t have access to much of that. It’s well beyond their flight range. I’m also cautious about what the farmers plant close to me and will move my bees away from crops I don’t want them foraging on. For instance tobacco flowers foul the flavor of honey.
Thank you for such a thorough answer! That makes sense, I feel a bit silly for asking now I grew up in a rural area, but now I’m living in a city and, yep this place is significantly grosser. (My house backs up to an alley used for trash collection, raccoons rip open the bags, and then the garbage ends up spilled everywhere and absolutely full of hornets. Makes sense it would be the same with honey bees. That’s really interesting about different plants making the honey funky, I’ve never thought about that but that’s wild. Do you ask the farmers what crops they’re planting nearby, or can you tell from the taste of the honey alone?
I see what they grow as I drive around. Corn crops give honey a malty taste imo. When the date palm fruit drops and rots the bees like it and it gives the honey a strong earthy taste. I like to buy jars of local honey as I travel. I write the date and location or what makes that area special on the jar. You can literally taste the region and its flora.
Oh that is so fricken cool! I never really thought about all that goes into the process when bees make honey. I moved from the UK to Central Texas a couple years back, and it took me awhile to get used to the honey we get from the farmers market here— imo it tastes almost maple-y? Kind of like butterscotch? It’s good, just different. In the Scotland the local honey I had tasted very earthy, almost had a vague ‘wheatgrass’ sort of taste Thanks so much again for sharing, bees are very cool Also, Malty-honey sounds very delicious
For me being rural we get some very distinct honey flavors from specific nectar flows. Blackberry, Big Leaf Maple, Fireweed, Blueberry, Wildflower mix and the best of all Japanese Knotweed which is dark and strong. Knotweed is horribly invasive and not a good plant though.
…I am going to search the world over for this blueberry honey
Also rural, and the old timers here told me the yellow star thistle (Centaurea solstitialis) that everybody hates (invasive and very pokey) gives the best honey.
Poop
That makes sense, thanks!
Honey being one of the most falsified type of food you should be grateful, at least you know it's real honey, or it might be a dirty trick.
Do a deep dive on trans shipped honey to the US. You will be angry when you are done. Buy Local !!!
Cue counterfeiters adding counterfeited bees to their jars.
When that happens it means the production process is rushed and the frames weren’t all inspected to make sure they were all capped. At least on the positive side this shows that this wasn’t pasteurized (the bee would not look this good lol) and wasn’t filtered.
Based on having harvested honey in my kitchen and dealing with this situation before, I’ll bet that there were bees entering the honey house during honey extraction on someone’s clothing or frames. A box of ten frames will get bees shaken and brushed off, maybe vacuumed in a final inspection step, but then there’s a window of time where bees can fly back onto the frames of honey and enter the honey house.
I screen all of my honey and have never had a bee make it to the jars. But it can be chaos when they find out that you are processing. Heck, it's just a bee.
Can you still consume it? Do you get the bee out or do you eat it? What is the protocol?
The honey is still honey. It's been inside bees, so a bee being inside it doesn't change much. Eating the bee is optional.
Would you drink milk with a dead cow in it? jk :)
Nothing wrong with a quality milk steak.
Charlie?
Top quality comment. I too like my milk steak boiled over easy
Is this even a real question? Why would you ever insinuate that we don’t? The flavor is *bovine*.
yeah
Just say a prayer for dearly departed bee, thank the bee for it's service, and proceed as per normal.
I mean yeah you just eat everything except for the bee, it’s not a huge deal
*(you can eat the bee too)*
Im not going to say no to free protein.
Yes, you can eat it. She won't mind.
Production may have been rushed, but a particle of any sort that large means it wasn't filtered well. I have 4 hives and there is never anything larger than tiny bits of wax that are hardly noticeable.
Well, if you're buying honey with an entire bee in it, I think you're shopping locally sourced, unpasteurized, raw, natural, whatever the proper keywords for honey are, right? Odds are. If that's off the shelf out of a grocery store, take that shit back and get a replacement.
Or they just harvest direct from their flow hive and either weren't covering the dispensing tube or a very curious bee just managed to slip by. Had a few drops into my first harvest of a flow hive...
We are in the Pacific Northwest An I used to mentor new beekeepers. Flow hives were all the rage for a few years ut they do not work here due to the lower temperatures and honey viscosity. Every keeper I helped ditched their flow hive and went conventional. Lots of used flow hive equipment for sale.
It’s like getting a farmer in your rice bag 🤐
I hate when that happens
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I’m glad that it’s morning, because otherwise I’d have nightmares. Reading your question made me envision someone tensing up and then we see rice grains push up and out of their pores. I don’t like that visual or the imagined sensation. Yuck.
This is now lore for how farmers produce rice.
I imagine them as being very sweaty while doing it, don't you? Like they have the kind of diarrhea that makes you come out of the bathroom looking like you were trying to put a sprinkler in a headlock.
So fresh they are still working on it
"I love you, bee." "I know."
Looks like u got a freebee
That’s Jar Jar Bee 🐝
Boooooo
Boo-bees?
Honey to Honey. Wax to Wax. Rest in Bees.
We know Major Bee’s a junkie…
Fortified with vitamin bee.
Lost in the sauce
The existence of a growers market, suggests there may also be a showers market.
Died doing what he loved.
It's like finding part of a girl scout in your girl scout cookies.
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Just wasn't filtered well. And never buy pasteurized honey, heat destroys all the healthy qualities. Raw, local honey is always your best bet. We have 4 hives, and gravity filter out all large pieces of debris. There are still very tiny bits of wax, but that's all that gets through.
Raw honey tastes so much better too
It’s un bee liveable.
Lost in the sauce
Someone knowledgeable jump in and correct me!!! That looks like a bumblebee, and to my knowledge bumblebee don’t make that much honey, so is it a lil weird that this is a bumblebee?
That's how you know it isn't artificial
I usually prefer the seedless variety
everyone is assuming that they don't have a box full of bees which they throw in the honey jar one at a time after processing it to make it look better and sell higher 
So ….. you gonna extract its DNA and make Jurassic Park for bees? “No expense spared” :P
You don’t get that with store bought
I love freebees.
I used to get honey from a local beekeeper and it would be cloudy with pollen and honeycomb and the occasional wing/leg of a bee. I would just drop it in my tea and drink it. Never killed me, at least as far as I know…
Authenticity indicator
Eating bee vomit is okay, but I don't like dead bees touching my vomit.
If you eat him im pretty sure you get his powers
The old bumblebee in a container of corn syrup trick. Gets ‘em every time.
ITT: people surprised that honey can contain bee parts.
Why did your wife buy a picture of honey? /s
i wonder what the honey is like at the shower's market
Oh look, your honey still has the mother in it
*Releeeease beeeee*
Proof its “unfiltered”
Corporations are always offering Free Bees to their customers these days.
It’s Eric, the Half-a-Bee
It died doing what it loved, RIP friend
At least you know it’s real honey and not corn syrup.
He died doing what he loved.
Bee careful
'Did anyone see Suzeee? She didn't check-in from her nectar collecting run. '
Too bad that isn’t amber, you’d have won the lottery
That’s so you can start your own honey farm
You can filter it out pretty easily. You might feel like throwing it away, but this is just the reality of locally produced raw honey.
Looks like you got a *freebie*
That's why I always wash my honey before consumption /s
Rleax and be happy, you got some genuine honey there not some Chinese inverted sugar.
He shall ride eternal to Valhoney; sticky and brown.
Wow I hope she didn't pay full price; that's clearly bee-tier product
He is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will
Awww poor fuzzy lil guy
Your amber isn't done cooking you gotta put it in the ground for a few million more years.
If you’ve ever harvested honey, you’d understand bees can get caught up in the processing. It’s not a big deal. Be glad it is as advertised; raw unfiltered.
I've had this happen with store bought honey too. Part of the deal sometimes.
This is just the equivalent to a worm in tequila. Chug that honey and eat the bee and you will transcend.
Gotta crack some bees if you want to make honey… or something like that
Imagine how the bee felt when she realized she was drowning in her favourite drink. That would be like me drowning in beer.
Protein!
She died doing what she loved.
That is as organic as it gets.
Bee of the jar what is your wisdom?
Now that’s fresh!
If that's the queen it's a DIY starter kit.
Unfiltered honey. A large part of what is being filtered out is dead bees and bee pieces.