Restaurants adding honey to cheese!

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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?

It's not a new trend, it's just a different (and foreign) way

But I think it only suits a sharp, salty cheese.

Just like Christmas cake only really goes with Cheshire, Lancashire and Wensleydale or perhaps Cheddar

My sons just airfryed last nights leftover takeaway pizza with grated mozzerella and honey.

It's beautiful but does get sickly after two slices.

I'm going to try the feta with honey!

You often get honey and fresh figs on cheeseboards in the south of France.

If it is not printed on the menu, it isn’t an accurate description of the item for the customer, and they’d be within their rights to send it back.

I would, on the grounds both that I hadn’t been told about it, and because I detest honey. It’s far too cloying for my taste.

I would never order anything that explicitly said it came with honey, or at least I’d ask for it to be served without, e.g. not drizzled on top.

Honey is one of the more obscure allergens - not a mandatory labelling requirement in the UK currently. I’m not allergic to it, but my extremely bad hay fever is, I suspect, one of the key reasons for my dislike - it’s an instinctive avoidance of a pollen product.

In this day and age, I expect food businesses to accurately describe what’s on offer on the menu - no ifs, buts, prevarication or quibbling. Natasha’s Law should have taught them that. Food waste is another issue - it’s unnecessary and they should cut down on issues that cause customers to send food back (cook it properly first time, then you won’t have to bin it and do a fresh one, for example! miss out the honey or have it in a little pot as an optional extra on request).

Eating out should be a relaxing and enjoyable experience, and it isn’t if ingredients are sprung on you (whether personal taste, religious or ethical reasons, or health dietary requirements).

I've drizzled honey and thyme leaves on goat's cheese crostini and slightly melted it under the grill. Delicious as a starter.

you vomiting cheese n honey, hon?

😫😂

Mind you was it just plain camembert with honey? I don't think I'd like that very much as the cheese isn't strong enough. Better with something that has more punch.

When I bake camembert I use aromatics like thyme, rosemary, garlic, chilli. Plenty of olive oil. A little drizzle of honey over the top at the end is the perfect finishing touch! Serve it with roasted nuts/dried fruits, figs, olives etc.

(Making myself hungry now)

I expect they were eating honey and cheese together thousands of years ago, it's been around a while...

Have to say I prefer grape nectar, though.

I love it. Avocado on a flatbread, topped with a fried egg and halloumi cooked in chilli oil and honey

WhimsicalGubbins76 · Today 16:34

Toottooot · Today 15:47

Hot honey is a’ the bash richt noo. Affa fine min.
Have you had a stroke??

Naw, the quine's Scoatish.

It's not new, I was eating cheese and honey combinations many years ago in Sardinia. It's just having a moment here.

Honey with cheese is also a Middle Eastern thing and has been for eleventy thousand years.

I like a LITTLE drizzled over brie and walnuts.
I like blue cheese with walnuts but don't fancy honey.
Definitely, wouldn't want honey with cheddar.
I don't like cheddar with fruit cake either.

God you’ve just reminded me of the breakfast I had in Morocco - street stand that made crepes with goats cheese and honey. One of the best breakfasts I’ve ever had….

Should have been on the menu though - that’s a real no no.

Hot honey is the new (in the UK anyway) salted caramel.

I had hot honey and pear on a pizza in a restaurant recently and it was lovely.

It's delicious! A restaurant near to us does honey and goats cheese pizza and it tastes incredible.

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

@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.

Whilst I wouldn’t mind it if I had been forewarned, I really dislike the trend at the moment to make everything savoury frigging sweet - M &S smoked salmon pâté being a horrid example:
https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-collection-smoked-salmon-pate-636373011?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=955441401&utm_content=non-brand&ds_rl=1291540&ds_rl=1126321&ds_rl=1164972&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADi6iHm5i6ytT4kMO_Ny1haO2kvls&gclid=CjwKCAjw1NK4BhAwEiwAVUHPUKo50pS40VVPaPQ5m94TuQ4jC4pC1eHR0cEJ6YY2DYh8JMbIFLsLrBoCtRoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Nothing obvious on the packaging, but one taste was enough for me. Having said that everyone else eating it liked the vile concoction.

Gingerbee · Today 17:02

I like blue cheese with walnuts but don't fancy honey.

Oh, now that sounds more like it!

I like some honey with cheese, particularly truffle honey with pecorino. But I don’t think it should come as a surprise. It’s an allergen even if not a notifiable one, and also quite a distinct taste that some people actively avoid.

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.

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!

What language is this?