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re: Is tupelo honey the best honey in the world
Posted on 6/27/26 at 9:44 am to Dadren
Posted on 6/27/26 at 9:44 am to Dadren
Lots of marketing BS in this honey story. Tupelo is the Chickasaw word for maple tree. So, Tupelo Honey was not honey. It was maple syrup. The honey sellers in FL and GA created this story about the great taste and benefits of honey made from Tupelo tree flowers that only bloom 2 weeks per year.
Seriously? Do you send your bees out with instuctions to only visit Tupelo maple flowers? Basically everything is blooming at the same time, so the bees are gathering everything available and turning it into honey.
I give the honey makers credit for taking a well known name and turning it into a product and sellable story, but at the end of the day, it is just another local honey.
Seriously? Do you send your bees out with instuctions to only visit Tupelo maple flowers? Basically everything is blooming at the same time, so the bees are gathering everything available and turning it into honey.
I give the honey makers credit for taking a well known name and turning it into a product and sellable story, but at the end of the day, it is just another local honey.
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:04 am to Pepe Lepew
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:18 am to Schleynole
Everyone is posting the Van Morrison song but the thread reminds me of the Tupelo Honey line in John Schneider's "Country Girls"
Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:21 am to spslayto
Orange Blossom honey is my favorite.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:22 am to Schleynole
All honey tastes the same. It’s honey. The taste difference is your imagination.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:23 am to Schleynole
quote:I had brunch there once
tupelo honey
Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:34 am to Schleynole
Honey varies greatly in taste and consistently, depending on the dominant flowers in an area and timing of collection. A friend of mine had a commercial bee operation with numerous hives which he moved around as needed to help farmers. He also sold types of honey in 55 gallon drums to restaurants and sold cases of jars which were delivered to our building and labeled by the main known flowers at the time collected. It is hard to say what was best, but a wide gulf was possible. For example, cotton was pretty sweet, but thick and dry so it granulated quickly. Rhododendron which had an interesting floral flavor and stayed fluid. Blackberry had a good flavor. He claimed that the whole Tupelo honey thing was rarely from Tupelo flowers, but actually other flowers which happened to be blooming in the area associated with Tupelo swamps.
Farmers paid him to bring hives for pollinating crops.
People often gave him access to lots of land - sometimes with hunting privileges and he gave them honey with labels showing the different flowers in the area along with contrasting flavors from elsewhere.
The work was hard, but still fun.
Was a great experience to hang out as a hobby, but not a great plan to make money. Did not give up my regular job.
Farmers paid him to bring hives for pollinating crops.
People often gave him access to lots of land - sometimes with hunting privileges and he gave them honey with labels showing the different flowers in the area along with contrasting flavors from elsewhere.
The work was hard, but still fun.
Was a great experience to hang out as a hobby, but not a great plan to make money. Did not give up my regular job.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:37 am to Rabby
This is a south Louisiana board - if Wayne Toups says its the best, then it damn sure is.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 12:25 pm to Obtuse1
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I prefer Sourwood to Tupelo honey.
Agree! I buy Sourwood honey from mtnhoney.com nearly every year. They are in north Georgia and have won numerous awards for the quality of their sourwood honey.
Tupelo honey would be my second choice. Smileyhoney.com out of Florida specializes in it.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 1:10 pm to Schleynole
Creamed honey is pretty damn good.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 1:55 pm to Schleynole
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Only grows in north Florida swamps as far as I know.
No sir….tupelo swamps are all over the south.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 2:03 pm to Schleynole
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Only grows in north Florida swamps as far as I know
It grows on the east coast. From Canada down to Mexico.
I think white tupelo (makes really good honey) is specific to Florida and Georgia though.
This post was edited on 6/27/26 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 6/27/26 at 2:10 pm to Schleynole
Melipona honey from the Yucatán (family connections) is the best I’ve ever tasted. It’s made by a local, stingless bee. As far as domestic, it’s all kind of the same to me but I don’t know if I’ve had Tupelo Honey specifically.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 2:31 pm to Schleynole
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Maybe for health but not for taste
Orange blossom is great. I’ve had a raspberry blossom that I got at a farmers market that was pretty superb. I think sage may have been the best. I think I’ve had eucalyptus as well. I used to go on a lot of dates to farmers markets. And I was high a lot.
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