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Restaurants adding honey to cheese!

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ThespTheo · 20/10/2024 15:40

Baked Camembert ruined by drowning it in honey, same for mozzarella sticks.

Who started this awful trend for adding honey to perfectly good cheese?

Or am I weird for not liking it?

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DilemmaDelilah · 20/10/2024 17:45

My grandmother used to make me cheddar and honey sandwiches, and I still like cheddar and honey together now. There is a fashion for hot honey now (chilli flavoured honey) with a lot of things. I don't like chilli so it's not for me, but cheese and honey together isn't a new thing.

Twiglets1 · 20/10/2024 17:44

NeverEnoughPants · 20/10/2024 17:42

I guess not everyone gets the joke. That's ok 🧸

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Oh sorry I get it now 😂

AdviceNeeded2024 · 20/10/2024 17:44

Toottooot · 20/10/2024 15:47

Hot honey is a’ the bash richt noo. Affa fine min.

It does seem to be everywhere, especially cheese related. I can’t stand it 🤢

meisafairy · 20/10/2024 17:44

It’s like the shove coriander 🌿 on everything trend. 🤢

sparklyfox · 20/10/2024 17:43

Crumbled parmigiano and honey has long been common in Italy

NeverEnoughPants · 20/10/2024 17:42

Twiglets1 · 20/10/2024 17:38

No.

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I guess not everyone gets the joke. That's ok 🧸

Hiphopopotamonster · 20/10/2024 17:42

This thread has actually just made me make myself a slice of sourdough with honey and sharp cheddar for my Sunday tea. Absolutely perfect combination. But then I also love jam and cheese in a croissant and marmalade and cheese on toast. And cheese with Christmas cake. Cheese just goes so well with sweet flavours I think (and I generally don’t have a sweet tooth)

SinnerBoy · 20/10/2024 17:41

LBFseBrom · Today 17:29

Pineapple isn't sweet and apple sauce isn't always sweet, I make it without sugar.

Obviously not as sweet as fudge, but there's still a lot of sugar in apple and pineapple. Apple juice is the sugariest on the market, it's about 10%. And pineapple fruit is about the same.

Hiphopopotamonster · 20/10/2024 17:40

Twiglets1 · 20/10/2024 17:38

No.

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You’re fun

Clevs · 20/10/2024 17:40

I had a flatbread recently that was topped with southern fried chicken tenders and Thai honey sauce and it was delicious 😋

VictorianBigot · 20/10/2024 17:40

LBFseBrom · 20/10/2024 17:29

Pineapple isn't sweet and apple sauce isn't always sweet, I make it without sugar.

I don't have a sweet tooth but I think one could order cheese without honey. Honey is OK with some things.

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Pineapple isn’t sweet??

@HappyDane thank you ❤️😻

Twiglets1 · 20/10/2024 17:38

NeverEnoughPants · 20/10/2024 17:29

I'm guessing you'd prefer marmalade...

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No.

SinnerBoy · 20/10/2024 17:37

AngelinaFibres · Today 17:25

I feel like this about salted caramel.

Before I packed in eating sweet stuff, I tried it and wasn't really disgusted, I mean, I wouldn't choose it, but for me, it was OK.

Sorry!

HappyDane · 20/10/2024 17:33

VictorianBigot · 20/10/2024 17:16

@HappyDane When I bake camembert I use aromatics like thyme, rosemary

I would cry if I ordered Camembert and it came with rosemary or thyme. They’re abominations.

Hopefully it says on the menu so it'll never happen to you!

If you were coming to mine for dinner I'd make you a little one all to yourself without anything you find abominable. 🙂

nameXname · 20/10/2024 17:31

@Molecule could not agree more about everything being so sweet now. Sadly, two of my favourite restaurants (in Glasgow) have fallen into this trap. Hispi cabbage with raisins (AND balsamic), anyone? Or tofu with mango?

I usually have the opposite of a sweet tooth, but I do remember, many years ago, while abroad, being offered some sort of sharp salty creamy cheese - maybe made with yoghurt? - with honey and some fairly crisp pitta-type bread, for breakfast. That worked, though I would not have liked to eat it often, or in quantity.

JustAnotherDayWorkingAtHome · 20/10/2024 17:30

Truffle honey and manchego is good of the gods

NeverEnoughPants · 20/10/2024 17:29

Twiglets1 · 20/10/2024 17:27

I’ve not experienced this yet but any attempt at drizzling honey over my cheese would be met with a hard stare from me.

I'm guessing you'd prefer marmalade...

LBFseBrom · 20/10/2024 17:29

SinnerBoy · 20/10/2024 15:51

I don't really eat sweet stuff, it makes me feel ill. I also really dislike sweet and savoury together; ham and pineapple, pork and apple sauce etc.

Pineapple isn't sweet and apple sauce isn't always sweet, I make it without sugar.

I don't have a sweet tooth but I think one could order cheese without honey. Honey is OK with some things.

Toddlerteaplease · 20/10/2024 17:29

I had a pizza that was supposed to have Gorgonzola on it, the other day. It also had honey on. It was nice, but completely overpowered the cheese!

Twiglets1 · 20/10/2024 17:27

I’ve not experienced this yet but any attempt at drizzling honey over my cheese would be met with a hard stare from me.

AngelinaFibres · 20/10/2024 17:25

SinnerBoy · 20/10/2024 15:51

I don't really eat sweet stuff, it makes me feel ill. I also really dislike sweet and savoury together; ham and pineapple, pork and apple sauce etc.

I feel like this about salted caramel. Love salt( on chips). Love caramel ( as a sweet in a box of chocs). Salted caramel...absolutely vile. In a tart,a pudding, a flan....the work of Satan

SinnerBoy · 20/10/2024 17:23

HarrietBond · Today 17:21

But I don’t think it should come as a surprise. It’s an allergen

I didn't know that; but I do now. Thanks.

TaylorSwish · 20/10/2024 17:22

SinnerBoy · 20/10/2024 15:50

SabreIsMyFave · Today 15:48

Hot honey is a’ the bash richt noo. Affa fine min.

Hot honey is all the rage at the moment. It's lovely.

What language is this?

SewingIsMySuperPower · 20/10/2024 17:21

I love honey with cheese (some of them anyway!) But I'd also be annoyed if something I ordered just appeared with honey without it being specified. You should always have the choice to have something on your food like that!

VictorianBigot · 20/10/2024 17:21

PumpkinSpiceMuffins · 20/10/2024 17:15

Are you Julie Bindel? I love the super grumpy food rants she’s been going on lately. www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-time-to-ban-balsamic

Balsamic was one that came to mind when I opened this thread. There was a time where cafés and restaurants seemed to drizzle it over everything. I can’t stand it.

To add to the rants, I really hate it when desserts come out covered in icing sugar.