• Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zip
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    8 hours ago

    personally yes but I feel like we’d probably be weird about people who want to eat it like we are with breast milk. like I’d imagine humans would reserve it for feeding infants like how birds do with their regurgitated food.

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    7 hours ago

    That’s a misleading description of what bees do.

    That being said, if we could actually make honey that way, id be making my own and be happy with it

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      They do that in South America where tribes spit into a communal pot. I think they were chewing cassava or maize or something like that. There are enzymes (like amylase) in saliva that break down the starches into fermentable sugars.

      I think I’d pass, personally. I hear it’s quite sour and I hate sour beer.

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    3 hours ago

    It’s a hard no from me.

    Honestly being vegan I don’t understand how people aren’t bothered by cow’s breast milk or chicken’s eggs; y’all just nasty.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    7 hours ago

    Depends on whether or not it tasted as good as honey. Even honey itself can taste wildly different, depending on what pollen was gathered by the bees to make it. Clover honey is the most common I see, but blackberry honey tastes even better IMO.

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    I can’t stand honey. It smells like when people sneeze, so I have never wanted to even taste it. So I guess bee phlegm and human phlegm smell the same to me?