Why is raw honey from Costco twice as expensive as Filtered ?

Frank"

The USA seems to be turning into a minocracy. Some group or other wants raw honey, and the world caters to the interests of the minority. I don't see us majority types being able to do anything about it.

Frank"

And what's up with organic sugar?

If someone is concerned about their health, they wouldn't be eating sugar.

And if the don't care about their health, they might as well eat the cheap high-fructose corn syrup crap.

A few years ago, there was a spike in the price of pure honey. KFC switched to dispensing packets of "honey sauce" for their biscuts. Basicly corn syrup with food coloring.

Sea salt is also another one. Salt from sea water versus salt mine. Both are still sodium chloride.

Reminds me of a time I was working on a food packaging problem with a Campbell Soup lab. One day they brought in pallets of soup and opened the cases and punctured the cans with an ice pick. They said they were headed for the dump. Somebody forgot to add salt to the batch. I have to laugh as that was 25 years ago and now they'd probably sell it as a premium low salt product.

Friend said as a kid, he worked in one of their factories and said he had the hardest job because he was a salter and had to haul big bags around.

What brand is that? With Kraft, for example, the price is uniform across the Miracle Whip/Mayonaisse regular, low fat, and non-fat line. some of the brands that tout olive oil as an ingredient are more expensive but reading the label suggests they wave an olive at a barrel of canola and call it good.

The amount of high fructose corn syrup also seems to be inversely proportional to the fat content.

I forget the weasel word, but there's also the maple syrup that's made by dropping a maple leaf into a drum of corn syrup. When I was a kid having a bottle of Karo syrup on the table was the hallmark of a low rent, white trash existence.

ahhh! Thanks for answering. :)

Well, Duh! Doesn't everybody know that? ;-)

Yeah, I keep a jug of 16 chain hydrocarbons just for oil cleanups and get rid of excess fat on a roast.

LOL That's a lot better reply than mine.

Corn syrup is so called double molecule sugar. Major contributor for obesity. Real sugar is single molecule sugar.

I don't know how broad the general knowledge of chemistry is. I have heard that about 18% of the US populace is functionally illiterate, that is, they can only read street signs and newspaper headlines but can't read in depth. I've always figured that technical illiteracy is higher. Not saying the questioner is technically illiterate but maybe depth of chemical knowledge is as high.