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[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Honey is not vomit as it does not reach the stomach. They store it in a special chamber in their esophagus.

Honey is the result of bees deepthroating nectar then spitting it out.

https://busybeekeeping.com/is-honey-bee-poop-or-bee-vomit-heres-the-truth/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So like when a bird regurgitates for their young.

I have a parrot and sometimes he attempts to feed me from his crop storage, it's gross.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We're pretty sure that humans chewed food for their children before blenders and packaged baby food

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Some even assume children were born before there were hospitals and doctors around, crazy take, I know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Most mothers have no qualms about eating the goey half eaten leftovers from their baby.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Whole foods

During the breast feeding time alternatives would be a porridge, or animal milk. I assume you could grind food with a pestle and mortar but the baby would most likely die of malnourishment without it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Humans have only been farming grain for about 10 thousand years, and there's not many other foods you can grind. Ancient humans ate a lot of meat, and babies after weaning ate meat, much of it pre-chewed by mum. Things like brain wouldn't need to be chewed

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Gross. But also not much grosser than eating off delicious animal corpses.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Would you like dirty bean water or dirty leaf water with your charred carrion, sir?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, can I see the old, rotten fruit liquid list please?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, we only have a selection of carbonated mould water.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'll just have the boiled plant mash filtered through compost.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I'll have the carbonated fish and wildlife piss filtered through rock procured at a price the fraction of the household supply sold at 10x the price to the detriment of the ecology please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

My guess is whisky

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Cat poop coffee is still the grossest food. Well, maybe this one cheese with live maggots jumping into your face while eating it has it beat.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Those honey stick ball spoon things are so fucking dumb. Just use a regular spoon, fork, or butter knife.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But how will I feel like the honey nut cheerios bee?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Convince kids to eat your family's vomit that is coating processed grains you shill so some guy makes in one year more money than a family could make in 10 generations?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Never used one myself, but apparently lightly spinning them helps the honey not drip because it's so viscous. Stop spinning it and it can be drizzled.

Had to search online because I never understood why one would not just use a spoon either, but if it means there's not as many little honey trails on the edge of the container, I can see the point. Learned something new today!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can do that rolling trick for the dribble with standard flatware, you do have to spin faster though to get it to work well.

The same idea applies to things you’re pouring out of; twist axially while tipping the container upright and you’ll have dramatically less spillage, even with viscous fluids like honey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honey centrifuge jotted in the business ideas journal ✅

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

you leave my honey wand alone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

You're a wizard, Fedizen!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think if you've got a pot of clear honey, something about the metal changes the honey. We got a pot from a local one time and it was awesome to start with but kept getting cloudier over time (could also be something far simpler, like oxygen!)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The honey starts to crystalize. If you put it in some warm water it will return to normal:

https://www.wired.com/2014/03/crystalized-honey/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Legend, thanks for clearing that up!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...Why did they pour it into a contact lens though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Better adhesion

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Second strong contender is a particular ~~termite's~~ ant's poop which lives in the jungle and is also mostly sugar.

EDIT: I misremembered, it's an ant. Here's a neat article about it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Honey is great, but probably my favorite most interesting bug byproduct is shellac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How many others have we tried? 🤨

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Two words: Ant milk. Imagine the marketing campaign.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"We need child labor because only a child's hands are small and delicate enough to squeeze the ant teat."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

What about spider milk? Apparently it’s actually a thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Thank you so much for volunteering, for the sake of science! :-P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No way, we haven't even found all of them yet! Based on estimations, about 50~95% of all species have not been identified. (I looked that up.) You can go out there right now and find the new tastiest vomit yourself!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All we could get our hands on then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Makes it sound like they were desperate to eat insect puke.

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