And bees can also make radioactive honey:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/23/honey-nuclea...
Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
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Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't realize all fireflies didn't tend to synchronized. Fun read. Fireflies are one of the only "bugs" from the south that I miss. Cicadas, I suppose, have a bit of a soft spot with me. Everything else... nope.
Cicadas are so bizarre. A couple of summers ago I was around Des Moines and Ames, IA and was completely baffled by the strange noise that seemed to be everywhere and yet impossible to localize. After a few days I heard someone talking about the cicadas and learned something new!
Come visit Japan in August; the cicadas are so loud throughout most of the country that you have to raise your voice to be heard.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#23any soft drink plants in the area? A bottler near where I used to stay got caught dumping out expired flavourant packs when honey in the area started turning red.
A bit of digging, and it turns out there's a Coca-cola bottler in Aberdeen, the same area as Dees Bees Apiary. I'm willing to bet that purple honey coincides with grape Fanta spills or dumps
This famously happened with M&Ms
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121011-bl...
During the peak of the Manuka honey bubble, people were supposedly spiking competitors honey by putting out coloured sugar water here in New Zealand.
Unsure if that’s true or just a rumour.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cicadas are so bizarre. A couple of summers ago I was around Des Moines and Ames, IA and was completely baffled by the strange noise that seemed to be everywhere and yet impossible to localize. After a few days I heard someone talking about the cicadas and learned something new!
Come visit Japan in August; the cicadas are so loud throughout most of the country that you have to raise your voice to be heard.
Then one day they suddenly stop. I hear a big noise but outside is completely silent to my mother.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#25Fun fact about North Carolina: Venus Fly Traps only grow naturally within about a 75-mile radius around Wilmington, NC.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't realize all fireflies didn't tend to synchronized. Fun read. Fireflies are one of the only "bugs" from the south that I miss. Cicadas, I suppose, have a bit of a soft spot with me. Everything else... nope.
Cicadas are so bizarre. A couple of summers ago I was around Des Moines and Ames, IA and was completely baffled by the strange noise that seemed to be everywhere and yet impossible to localize. After a few days I heard someone talking about the cicadas and learned something new!
Be careful standing underneath a tree involved in ._cicida rain_.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#27Just a couple days ago I was able to try white honey from Montana. I don’t believe there is any rarity to it but it was new to me and tasted great.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
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oh great... grape flavored honey...
From the article >Flavour-wise, she says, "to my untrained palate, the honey really does taste purple, in a grape-y sort of way". Oh no
Kudzu flowers supposedly have a grape like flavor. I just had a beer made with them from fonta flora in NC and you could vaguely taste it. Although unsure if it was my imagination.
Kudzu flowers were listed as one of the possibilities in the article.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#29Funny story: I came across some money and instead of buying Bitcoin (which at the time was selling for ~$30) I bought 6 big pails of honey from a local farm. Honey never goes bad, and during an economic collapse it would easily have the same value as Bitcoin.
I ended up eating all of it in a year instead.
Re: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh great... grape flavored honey...
From the article >Flavour-wise, she says, "to my untrained palate, the honey really does taste purple, in a grape-y sort of way". Oh no
It could still be placebo effect and/or whatever makes purple/red grapes their deep color having an influence on the flavor and this being common to both purples rather than spilled Fanta. The article mentions kudzu which is also purple and allegedly vaguely grape like.
Basically "this bloody mary sure does have a hint of pizza to it" but one level lower (chemical level rather than the tomato ingredient level).