I was permanently banned from the Reddit sub without recourse for posting this despite not breaking any rules. I'm slowly making the migration over thanks to such encouragement.
I’m American, and honey blend implies to me that it is a mix of different types of honey. Like clover honey and whatnot. Kinda like a Red blend wine is a mix of different wines, not 50% merlot/50% rubbing alcohol or something.
Clearly, and nothing personal here and I'm sure this honey company are good people, but my comment was more addressed at the larger societal issues of being an American (which I am) and how we're constantly lied to and how we've normalized that 100%. So that small things like this don't seem worth calling out. This particular label is not that bad, but in other countries, as others have said here, the label would be even clearer. Europeans don't have to read between the lines with phrases like, "Made with..." to know that's not the same as "100% made with ...". That's all.
It says "made with real honey", which is a pretty big clue that it isn't real honey.
It says "texas honey blend", again indicating that it's honey blended with something.
And, as for "gourmet" it's in a plastic bear-shaped container, it's not a luxury item.
If people want to buy stuff made from high fructose corn syrup, shouldn't they be allowed to do it? How much more obvious does it need to be that this isn't pure honey?
As other people said, in the EU with "honey blend" you'd expect a blend of different types of honey, as it wouldn't be allowed to be call honey unless it was pure honey. Having to decipher "made with real honey" to mean "its not real honey" is just fucking odd. Flip it over and look at the ingredients and its just a list? Why no percentages?
Gourmet stuff comes in all sorts of weird packaging and shitty stuff comes in fancy packaging, so having to assume it is corn syrup because it's in a bear shape is also weird.
in the EU with “honey blend” you’d expect a blend of different types of honey
And, in the US you'd expect it to be something blended with honey. Different expectations, neither one of those expectations is unreasonable.
as it wouldn’t be allowed to be call honey unless it was pure honey
Right... and it's not called honey, it's called "Texas Honey Blend". If it were honey it would be called "Honey".
Having to decipher “made with real honey” to mean “its not real honey” is just fucking odd.
You don't have to "decipher" that, you just have to look at the fact it's a blend, not honey. The "made with real honey" is just additional confirmation that yes, it's not pure honey.
Flip it over and look at the ingredients and its just a list? Why no percentages?
Because different food rules? Why percentages?
Gourmet stuff comes in all sorts of weird packaging
Gourmet stuff doesn't come in bear-shaped plastic bottles.
No rules for food labelling is wild.
It would be, if it were the case. But, that's definitely not the case here. It's just different from the rules you're used to. The core of your comment seems to be "this is different than what I'm used to, and I'm shocked!"
You know what else is odd? That you're staunchly defending this label with barely any information on it. Pretty much every point you've made is "but why does it need information"...
Oh sorry, you're right, there's an address for more info. I shall scribe my correspondence post haste in order to discover the nature of the product on the shelf.