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Bee vomit in tea is the bestest!! :+1::grin::honeybee::eyes:

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Don’t worry, it’s more semantics than vomit. :wink:

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You’re mean people. :smile:

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You’re correct on the semantics point. The technical distinction between the crop vs the stomach is one that doesn’t really matter when considering the concept of “vomit”. The linked article is guilty of overly technical analysis - the average person doesn’t make a real distinction and the specialist knows the technical truth. Is it less gross that the honey (or beeswax) went into a special purpose organ that looks & acts like a stomach but just isn’t attached to the excretory canal (anus) but regurgitated instead?

Technically speaking since they continue a process of digesting (I disagree with the link’s writer in claiming that the processing of the nectar in the crop is not “digestive” in nature - it’s the alteration of the source material via the consuming animal’s internally excreted enzymes) and regurgitation, although it is vomited (regurgitated) out ultimately, it’s more akin to a kid who picks his nose and eats the remnants :smile: It’s a technical distinction that vomit comes from the stomach and regurgitate can come from other organs - so vomit is a special type of regurgitate and regurgitated bee slime isn’t vomit :smiling_imp:

BTW, I spent a few years raising bees in the backyard - hoping to help the kids’ allergies.

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Heh, I was actually looking for an article that mentioned bile, specifically the lack thereof in honey (bees being invertebrates) and how that was the important distinction for me. :bee::blossom::honey_pot:

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Sunshine and roses for you :slight_smile: Honey is really good though - doesn’t spoil, too dry (funny for a liquid to be “too dry”).

Funny how people’s food preferences get shaped. I abhor fish. I had a fish tank when I was a kid and watched them eat their own poop. Just couldn’t eat fish.

Spent summers on my uncle’s dairy farm. Ate the cows who ate the grass they pooped on but it seemed different. Finally figured it out - the fish usually still look like fish but beef doesn’t look like the cow anymore (and yeah, I know there are fish fillets that don’t look like fish and I would actually eat fish sticks breaded & fried with ketchup but not for years) :slight_smile:

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Backed these guys on kickstarter. The result was pretty tasty but I suspect not strong enough for @dan

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I am totally bookmarking this thread for whenever someone asks me to cite a community example on the topic of thread divergence… :smirk:

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@dan started it. He’s gonna have to take the blame for this one. :wink:

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Yea, we’ll just have to flag @dan :stuck_out_tongue: , and then to get in his good graces again well have to send him some Whoppers–I mean chocolate candies polished with bug poop!

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Whoppers are nasty!

Because of the malt, I mean. Shellac’s pretty flavorless. I’m tickled to have passed @rpegg’s fact check, though.

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So it’s more correct to call it bug vomit rather than poop…:thinking: ::bug:

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Praise pre-digestion in all its myriad, marvelous forms! Without it, we’d have a wonderful selection of rocks to dine on. :open_mouth: :no_mouth: :grin:

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Yes indeed. Without it I’d never get any vegetables. Fortunately we have cows and pigs who pre-digest those for me and turn it into steaks and bacon. :slight_smile:

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