Comment by fsckboy
3 years ago
honey bees are not native to north america. Native Americans called them "white man's flies" (or should I not be learning history by watching westerns?)
3 years ago
honey bees are not native to north america. Native Americans called them "white man's flies" (or should I not be learning history by watching westerns?)
Honey bees, sure, but there are plenty of native bee species to North America.
That list of native bees includes bumblebees, in case anybody was conflating them with honeybees.
Thee native bees are also about 100x better at pollinating than honeybees.
So that is why corn syrup is popular in US?
Corn syrup is/was more used as a cheaper alternative for maple syrup and sugar. The relative unpopularity of honey probably has more to do with sugar plantations making sugar somewhat affordable.
people are sensitive on the honey topic, but since I learned how hard it was to distinguish natural honey from fake honey (you need NMR or something), I've just been wondering why don't we all just use cheap fake honey?
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