Comments on: Honey, Do

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:47:05 +0000

Oh, Alice. Your message initially got stuck in the spam filter, I suspect, because you uttered liposuction and bee poop. How I love having you around on Simmer.

By: Alice L.

Alice L. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:09:23 +0000

Like, do you have your own personal liposuction machine? And have you ever drenched a sesame seed bagel in bee poop (that is what some politician’s wife called honey when I lived in Wisconsin)? This is the operational definition of heaven.

By: Sandie

Sandie — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:56:00 +0000

My hidden honey secret? Ever so often, I sneak over to the pantry, walk inside, grab my glowing honey bear and give him a big ‘ol squeeze, right…down…my…gullet. Completely satisfying when I’m craving something sweet.

Other than sharing my personal honey habits, I am so with you on the, “Some words, words you’ve used all your life – words like welcome or cheese – suddenly look wrong.” That happens to me often, but I’ll take that one step further. Try saying a word, a common word, one you’ve used throughout your life a few times consecutively. It begins to sound wrong after a while too, to the point of not making sense. Take the word bench for instance, “Bench, bench, bench, bench, bench…” See what I mean? Who ever came up with the word bench?

And why am I sharing my random thoughts on your blog?

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:16:48 +0000

If you haven’t already, you should watch the Spiderwick Chronicles. Not that I think you have the same reaction to no honey. That would be rude.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:02:13 +0000

I also share your love of honey. And, geek that I am, I know honey trivia. Honey is a natural anti-bacterial–ancient Egyptians used it as a salve on wounds. I haven’t tried that myself. No, really, I haven’t. And honey does not spoil. If it goes all crystallized in the bear, you can just dunk him in some hot water until the honey melts back into its usual sweet form.

By: PVS

PVS — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:18:59 +0000

don’t you feel a cough coming on? I just read an article that a teaspoon of honey at bedtime will help a cough just as well as a teaspoon of cough syrup!

By: Renovation Therapy

Renovation Therapy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:55:21 +0000

Jenni has a point…when the bear gets irritable, it’s not pleasant.

By: jenni

jenni — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:29:16 +0000

I stopped buying the bear, cause he just did not hold enough honey. And sometimes he squishes in the middle and never puffs back out, then he doesn’t sit on the counter well, and falls over. He becomes a bad bear.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:13:35 +0000

While I also enjoy honey, Marilyn, I am not in love with it (I am a maple syrup girl myself, but this is your blog). But! I do so love the bear bottle. And I have thrown this question about many a time in other people’s homes, “Why, for the love of all that is good on this green earth, would you buy the bottle-shaped bottle when you could have THE BEAR?! I believe it is an early sign of dementia to dispense your honey in anything other than a bear.

There are two kinds of people in the world – those who choose the bear, and those who don’t.

By: Paula

Paula — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:58:04 +0000

You know what is really nice about blogs? You find out you’re not alone with your guilty little secrets – like buttering crackers and slathering on the honey! (Or loving the hard lumps of brown sugar – I went back to the documentation. )

Every morning, without fail, I have a cup of Bigelow Plantation Mint Tea with a generous spoonful of orange blossom honey – my personal favorite. However, I don’t have the bear. I now feel I have missed out. Hmmmmm……

I’m off to bake my very first batch of scones.