Not just any honey...

[Vanterrier]

My wife saw this in M&S and could not believe the price...
£1.45 for a 340g jar!

How?

 

[Garry R]

How?

More than likely adulterated from abroad. It's not just M&S honey it's likely not even 100% honey

 

[Vanterrier]

That's my point I suppose. I just expected something better from M&S


To be fair, it tastes pretty good

 

[enrico]

That's my point I suppose. I just expected something better from M&S


To be fair, it tastes pretty good

Probably a good seed for your own

 

[Vanterrier]

Probably a good seed for your own

I wondered about that but worried that an adulterated honey ( if that's what it is) would not necessarily be a good start for a seed..
And I do have some soft set from the local Northumberland Honey Co.
K

 

[Penninetrader]

That's my point I suppose. I just expected something better from M&S


To be fair, it tastes pretty good

Food chemists could make poo taste good so not a good reference

 

[pargyle]

More than likely adulterated from abroad. It's not just M&S honey it's likely not even 100% honey

'A blend of Non-EU honeys packed in the UK - Says it all really. Disappointing when only recently M & S were crowing about their range of real honeys from UK beekeepers ...

 

[Penninetrader]

'A blend of Non-EU honeys packed in the UK - Says it all really. Disappointing when only recently M & S were crowing about their range of real honeys from UK beekeepers ...

Undermines their credibility and business model, the profit from such a product would be small, rather silly

 

[pargyle]

Undermines their credibility and business model, the profit from such a product would be small, rather silly

https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-...rganic_shopping&utm_campaign=organic_shopping

 

[JamezF]

There's the cost of the jar, lid, label(s), shipping/distribution, paying someone to package it, etc., etc. I wonder what the actual cost of the alleged "honey" is?

Since the issues with honey (and other food) fraud have become more widely known it's become a more common topic of conversation during meals in our household as to what information appearing on food labels is actually verifiable fact and what is just marketing ******** (for want of any more accurate term). Labels that say "Chickenstrangler Farm", for instance, intended to give the impression that the heavily processed poultry thus labelled came from an identifiable location when in fact it's just the product of a marketing manager's imagination. For lunch today we had some cheese that, if it were made the way that the label was intended to suggest, we couldn't possibly have afforded to buy. It's a sorry state we've got ourselves into.

I also had a chuckle to myself the other day when I noticed that some "smokey bacon" flavour crisps were labelled as vegan. I know full well that the flavour is all made in a lab, but the mere idea of trying to market smokey bacon crisps to vegans is one that bends my brain just a little.

James

 

[JamezF]

https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-...rganic_shopping&utm_campaign=organic_shopping

I think there was a link posted a month or so back for a youtube video about a beek who runs a few thousand of colonies across the south and sells to M&S? One of Laurence/BMH's, perhaps?

James

 

[Jimmy]

M&S British honey is supplied by Wainwrights, I don't know who provides the wider range.
The video was by Gwenyn Gruffyd (apologies if I've mangled the spelling).

There's at least a couple of videos looking at their set up
Wainwright video

The honey jarring set up was simultaneously impressive and surprising at what was done by hand (labelling iirc) and automated.