French Bees Create Blue Honey After Raiding M&M's Factory

[MetalGenocide]

There is a "generic brown gritty modern FPS" joke in here somewhere.

This is what happens when you play Borderlands near hives?
Or
If we already know what Stalker does to kids, could you imagine BEES?

Tell you what, I'll give it some more thought. Have a go in the meantime.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Shit, all he's missing is red colored honey and he could have himself and XBox controller-themed honey color scheme!

I....now have the sudden urge to purchase 1 of every color of honey I just mentioned. Because I like games and food.

 

[roushutsu]

Even if the farmer does nothing with it, Mars should definitely jump on it. If they can process M&M's honey, they'd make a fortune! Tons of little kids will want to gobble that up.

 

[ExtraDebit]

If you guys was just read the article, it already mentioned that it taste just like regular honey.

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

I have an ex who would kill for some of that Phazon-blue honey. Seriously, she already likes honey, and Phazon, and this would be like an orgasm of flavour, even if it just tasted like regular old honey.

 

[lunavixen]

That's awesome! if it still tasted like honey i'd eat it!

 

[Denamic]

He's not selling it?
I'd pay double for it!
Actually, fuck that.
Quadruple!

Suspicious.

The jars in the picture show nice, clean colours.

Did the bees only eat one colour per hive? How advanced of them, not to mix.

He probably selectively harvested the honey based on their colours.
It's not exactly magic.

 

[Mike Kayatta]

I think Mike should try monetize this as one of "Mike's million dollar ideas".

Good idea. You may be on to something there ...

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Considering how much I know of the bees' process to make honey (which isn't really that much, mind you), I can see why he wouldn't want to promote this. If beekeepers focus more on using (potentially) artificial, multi-colored nectar for the bees to consume, that essentially removes a decent amount of pollenation from the local plantlife. You'd be putting the weight of the task on all the butterflies, and I'm not sure if their delicate frames could handle the workload. Of course, this is all just theorizing from someone who knows little of the matter.

This.
Nobody here even thinks about what would happen to the bees and our flora, when they'd make the bees produce honey in a non-natural way.
Those buggers already behave strange more and more often and the worldwide population of them is shrinking, we shouldn't start to meddle with that even more.

 

[Mike Kayatta]

Suspicious.

The jars in the picture show nice, clean colours.

Did the bees only eat one colour per hive? How advanced of them, not to mix.

Considering the small size of a collector bee's storage stomach, it seems reasonable to assume that, for the most part, one bee would only harvest one color per trip. Upon returning home, that bee transfers the contents of its tummy into a hive bee that, after churning it around a bit in its own stomach, deposits it into one of the honey comb's hexagons. It then stands to reason that since each hexagon in the comb is representative of one bee, each unit would be one color, though not all adjacent units would necessarily be uniform. All it would take to distill jars into such perfect colors would be a very meticulous beekeeper, only harvesting similar color tones simultaneously. Not too farfetched, and to be honest, exactly what I would do.

 

[surg3n]

Not sellable? Is he retarded? Color has no bearing on whether something passes inspection standards.

Really?

Food colouring is of no concern to food inspectors?, or the chemicals used in it, or the effects of being transferred by a fricken bee!

I'm no expert, but I suspect that there might be an issue with having unknown chemicals in your otherwise 100% natural product.

Also - what about the taste? - you guys probably think this stuff would taste just like honey hmmmmmdurrr blue space honey. Honey get's it's flavor from the plants and flowers used to make it - replace those flowers and plants with blue shit from the M&M factory and you don't end up with honey.

So, he's probably not retarded, no.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

You made me feel bad about laughing at this when you said he was losing money you bastard. Then further down the article I found out it's because the beekeeper it too stubborn to sell it?

Anyway, I would totally buy it. I buy honey anyway, so if it tastes the same then why not?

 

[D-Soul]

I'm with everybody even though he's loosing money if he was smart enough he could capitalize on this and make a freaking fortune of a colored honey I sure as hell wouldn't be creeped out by some different colored honey when it comes to food my generation, the generation before me and the generation after me have seen crazy things when it comes to food don't believe me?

So different colored honey that (hopefully) still taste like honey would not be the worst food related idea ever...

 

[surg3n]

Anyway, I would totally buy it. I buy honey anyway, so if it tastes the same then why not?

I'm with everybody even though he's loosing money if he was smart enough he could capitalize on this and make a freaking fortune of a colored honey I sure as hell wouldn't be creeped out by some different colored honey when it comes to food my generation, the generation before me and the generation after me have seen crazy things when it comes to food don't believe me?

So different colored honey that (hopefully) still taste like honey would not be the worst food related idea ever...

The flavour of honey comes from the plants and flowers that are used to make it. If a bee uses other sources, the honey wouldn't taste like honey. It might not taste horrible, it might be really good - but at the end of the day the farmer can't possibly sell that stuff. There are laws regarding what people can sell, and what they can't. If those laws didn't exist, we'd be drinking rat milk and eating lumps of flavoured wood. It's not like the bee's have found another plant to use, or another natural source of sugar.

 

[Saviordd1]

So this guy accidentally finds a product worth a lot of money and possibly industry changing...

and decides to totally ignore and say its wrong...

God damnit

 

[LordLundar]

Suspicious.

The jars in the picture show nice, clean colours.

Did the bees only eat one colour per hive? How advanced of them, not to mix.

Actually that is accurate. If given enough of a source of nectar from one flower type, bees will actively avoid other types. It's why you can easily distinguish types of honey (clover, strawberry, daffodil, watermelon, etc). Even wildflower honey usually only comes from one type of flower, it's just the keeper doesn't know which particular flower it comes from. It's only if there isn't a sufficient supply will bees go for other flowers.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Anyway, I would totally buy it. I buy honey anyway, so if it tastes the same then why not?

I'm with everybody even though he's loosing money if he was smart enough he could capitalize on this and make a freaking fortune of a colored honey I sure as hell wouldn't be creeped out by some different colored honey when it comes to food my generation, the generation before me and the generation after me have seen crazy things when it comes to food don't believe me?

So different colored honey that (hopefully) still taste like honey would not be the worst food related idea ever...

The flavour of honey comes from the plants and flowers that are used to make it. If a bee uses other sources, the honey wouldn't taste like honey. It might not taste horrible, it might be really good - but at the end of the day the farmer can't possibly sell that stuff. There are laws regarding what people can sell, and what they can't. If those laws didn't exist, we'd be drinking rat milk and eating lumps of flavoured wood. It's not like the bee's have found another plant to use, or another natural source of sugar.

Reportedly, Frieh's amazing Technicolor dream honey tastes just like normal honey, but he still won't sell it.

Now, you might be smarter than everyone else in the world when it comes to Bees, but you're only theorising, whoever said it tastes just like normal honey has obviously actually tasted some.

Or are you trying to say the article is bullshitting?

 

[surg3n]

Reportedly, Frieh's amazing Technicolor dream honey tastes just like normal honey, but he still won't sell it.

Now, you might be smarter than everyone else in the world when it comes to Bees, but you're only theorising, whoever said it tastes just like normal honey has obviously actually tasted some.

Or are you trying to say the article is bullshitting?

Nope, not saying it's bull - what I am saying is that he wouldn't be allowed to sell it, even if he wanted to.... no matter what it tastes like.