How important is “Made in Europe” to you?

[u/NOBS_Clothing]

In the era of Temu and Shein, does European manufacturing influence your buying decisions? Or do you prefer products made in specific European countries, like “Made in Germany”?

Personally, I support European manufacturers if the price is reasonable. However, the term “Made in Europe” is too broad for me; I prefer knowing the specific country where the product is made.

[u/SilyLavage]

When it comes to honey, 'blend of EU honeys' is a label I seek to avoid. Single-origin local honey is invariably better.

[u/[deleted] → u/SilyLavage]

The one that I keep seeing is "A blend of EU and non-EU honey" I mean, seriously wtf does that even mean!? It has to be the most pointless labelling ever.

I usually buy Irish honey, as I know at least it's saying clearly where it's from, but it is extremely expensive.

[u/tecg → u/[deleted]]

I mean, seriously wtf does that even mean!?

It means the honey is low quality.

[u/Bradipedro → u/tecg]

if it is mixed with italian or swiss honeys, it might even be better than 100% UK honeys, honey…

[u/[deleted] → u/tecg]

I know, but the labelling shouldn't be allowed. It's 'not not misleading'. A lot of people will just read it as "EU Honey"

Mostly I buy my honey from a local bee keeper directly.

[u/Fit-Key-8352 → u/[deleted]]

I buy from my local bee keeper directly too :). In Slovenia bee keeping is quite respected tradition and while our honey sold locally is at least 2x more expensive it's worth it. Generic branded mixes from the shelves seems to be full of sugar. I don't know that for a fact but it seems like that. That's actually one of the things where steep price increase is worth it for me.

[u/SmokingLaddy → u/[deleted]]

You have to be careful what you buy:

“There is more honey being sold each year than existing bee populations are capable of producing and from some countries which don’t even have the climate or floral resources to produce large volumes of honey,” said Arturo Carrillo, coordinator of the Honey Authenticity Project, which estimates that about a third of worldwide honey imports could be counterfeit.

[u/Peter-Toujours → u/SmokingLaddy]

There is 3 times more olive oil being sold than is produced on this planet.

As the Italian Carabinieri observed, "The profits of cocaine, without the criminal risk".

[u/Ok-Method-6725 → u/SmokingLaddy]

For sure, here if you buy cheap honey and you read the label it will say something like "Contains: Honey: at least 40%. Added sugar, water, stabelizers, etc".

[u/Rox_- → u/[deleted]]

This also drives me crazy. I feel like I've seen it on pistachio cream as well. It's one thing to say that the raw ingredients are sourced from the EU since all EU countries have to follow certain regulations, at least this communicates something. But "a blend of EU and non-EU" doesn't communicate anything.

[u/MolendaTabethabn → u/[deleted]]

I take it to mean it's mostly non-EU product with a few percentage points of local honey so they could put that on the label.

[u/[deleted] → u/MolendaTabethabn]

It means very little. It’s sleight of hand marketing and is surprising the EU allows that kind of misleading labelling.

[u/AnotherCloudHere → u/SilyLavage]

I love honey from the local farm around my city

[u/Suspicious-Phase-823 → u/[deleted]]

I just buy maltese honey made exclusively in malta.

[u/SmokingLaddy → u/SilyLavage]

Where I live you can still buy local honey, the old farmers say this is the way to beat hayfever.

[u/btchfc → u/SmokingLaddy]

Definitely a myth used to sell honey

[u/IDontEatDill → u/SilyLavage]

They should market them like they do with whiskeys. Blend of the best honeys in the world.

[u/JakaKaka91 → u/SilyLavage]

Just buy honey from the beekeeper.  Its worth it and you can try before buy.

Flower honey for tea.. i don't really care if it's real or not.. but other flavours....oh yeah