Fun fact! The son of A.J. Florizoone (the founder of Meli) was my high school French teacher! He was loaded, he didn’t need to teach, he just liked to.
Edit: and he was a very good teacher I might add! Truely excellent.
it’s a classic, Meli.
It’s made in my hometow, enjoy 🤘🏻
That’s like the most standard mid quality honey on the planet. I use it for my tea.
Wow, this good honey but I’ve had better. We always buy from local beekeepers, so much better than the supermarket stuff
Neat fact, they used to have their own theme park! Now it’s called plopsaland de panne, but a lot of the attractions are still the same
Yes, Meli us one of, if not the best honey I have ever tasted. Only some fresh from the beehive, local honey has had better taste than this.
Ah, someone discovered Meli. Yeah, it’s good honey. Makes a tea wonderfully sweet.
Shit, I’m going to get a cup of honeyed tea right now.
Where are you from if you think that this is good honey?
Cool! Meli used to have a theme park for families and kids. The general theme was honey and though they had a lot of rides, they also had a large section with gardens and educational material on bees. They had bees for mascots too. Unfortunatly the park closed somewhere around the year 2000 i think. Glad to see you enjoy the honey. A lot of people commenting it’s just average say so because they probably grew up with meli honey, as most belgians did. It’s pretty good stuff 🙂
Nice, you discovered sugar
We may not realize it, but Europe has a very decent food quality compared to other countries.
Look a the back, I think it’s honey from other parts of Europe than Belgium?
once upon a time someone told me that Meli is quite often using sugar and create fake honey.
It’s alright, not great, I do love their honey waffles though, next time try those
Meli is horrible factory processed junk, harvested mechanically so tons of bees get killed in the process unnecessarily. But I might be biased because my parent is a beekeeper.
This is like the basic bitch cheap honey.
There are better brands, but for the really good stuff buy fresh from a beekeeper. Pretty much every village has at least one amateur beekeeper. Sadly it’s not the time of year for it.
It’s even better when you buy fresh straight from a nearby imker.
For some reason our small country has some straight up grade A tasting honey 🍯
Try the meli koeken aka the honingkoeken they are delicieus
Mmmmmmmm
Ever bought honey from a beekeeper in the US? Hard to imagine it’s worse than Meli.
ITT: people complaining because someone likes something about Belgium, the traditional Belgian pastime.
The honey is really good, and you reminded me that mine is almost empty and I should get more soon!
Sorry some people are so rude on here. Apologies. Glad you enjoyed the honey, I like Meli too 🙂👍🏻
This is whipped honey and can be found all over the USA.
As a beekeeper, my eyes fucking burn.
Next time you have to buy Meli chocolate paste!
Since it sounds like you specifically like the texture, try looking for local creamed or whipped honey. It’s the process that makes that particular variety of Meli so light colored and buttery. Looks like you have some [local(ish) honey farms](https://shop.sweetneshoney.com/collections/creamed-honey) near Houston that sell something similar.
Beekeeper here.
AFAIK, there very little honey in there. Even though Meli does not directly import honey from China (China who’s known for making magic honey with water, glucose, fructose but no bee), they are actually buying stocks from Ukraine, Poland, and Spain, and I’ll let you guess whose they are buying from.
As a rule of thumb, that’s always the case If the packaging contains the mention « contains honey from EU and outside EU » as the European Union forces honey producers to specify the origin.
There’s a really [well documented video](https://youtu.be/gVECGSBrX7M) about that by the French YouTuber « Trouble Fait » if you wanna know more.
Don’t know much about good quality Belgian honey but this producer in my hometown is pretty good https://www.apiland.ro/
We even had a theme park where this originated from.
I always though Meli was literally fake honey and called that way because it can’t legally be called “Miel” which means honey in French.
I liked the chocolate pasta when I was a child, maybe I should get some one day.
Check what the the says its nearly all import…probably they sate x procent eu honey and y procent non eu whatever that means, they dont have to precise so probably many chinese stuff…and yeah im a beekeeper…
They are the biggest importer in Belgium and eu if im ´ot mistaken…
A place worth visiting is la Maison du miel on the rue du Midi. La Maison du Miel
+32 2 512 32 50 https://maps.app.goo.gl/hnboYRk1BokZEEMTA
I was not sure if it still existed, I used to go there as a kid and get bonbons fourrés au miel and the most crazy good honey. Worth a visit in my opinion if it has remained as good.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
You should have bought from a small beekeeper, the store brands are filled with processed sugar and can’t be considered real honey. Bonus to this, this ‘big brand’ honey is part of why the wild bee population is dying out. These honeybees they use are outcompeting wild species of bees which specialise in specific plants.
The aoli from belgium.
You should’ve seen the amusement park that goes with that.
Some comments may come off harsh, but it’s their Belgian way of saying “Hope you come back, next time we’ll show you the real deal!”.
This reminds me of a similar experience where I’d carried around 3 bottles of Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce around on our last day in the states as gifts for friends in Belgium. Only to find out the American BBQ sauce they sell in our local supermarket’s ‘international’ section is.. Sweet Baby Ray’s.. Hope you had a nice trip!
When I was a kid, this honey even had his own theme park. It later turned into Plopsaland.
When visiting, always buy local… it’s way better and healthier and you support the people you visit, not a global company.
I guess if you come from a country with lots of crap products and lots of ultra processed foods meli will taste good enough, sadly it’s like saying McDonald’s in USA is better than renowned restaurants in EU.
I recently bought some products from local beekeepers and it was like night and day, meli is good to be put in the trash.
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That’s absolutely a first. I never ever before have heard someone visiting Belgium preferring honey over beer.
Ps. yes, we also have honey beer.
https://www.hopt.be/flessen/3743-biere-de-miel-biologisch-honingbier-75cl.html
Cheers to you! Where are you from yourself? :p
Cool, and that’s one of our more basic honeys, afaik.
One of the beste takeaways? Really? I mean, Meli is nice and all. But… really?
Weyn’s (https://weynshoning.be/), for your next trip.
Fun fact! The son of A.J. Florizoone (the founder of Meli) was my high school French teacher! He was loaded, he didn’t need to teach, he just liked to.
Edit: and he was a very good teacher I might add! Truely excellent.
it’s a classic, Meli.
It’s made in my hometow, enjoy 🤘🏻
That’s like the most standard mid quality honey on the planet. I use it for my tea.
Wow, this good honey but I’ve had better. We always buy from local beekeepers, so much better than the supermarket stuff
Neat fact, they used to have their own theme park! Now it’s called plopsaland de panne, but a lot of the attractions are still the same
Yes, Meli us one of, if not the best honey I have ever tasted. Only some fresh from the beehive, local honey has had better taste than this.
Ah, someone discovered Meli. Yeah, it’s good honey. Makes a tea wonderfully sweet.
Shit, I’m going to get a cup of honeyed tea right now.
Where are you from if you think that this is good honey?
Cool! Meli used to have a theme park for families and kids. The general theme was honey and though they had a lot of rides, they also had a large section with gardens and educational material on bees. They had bees for mascots too. Unfortunatly the park closed somewhere around the year 2000 i think. Glad to see you enjoy the honey. A lot of people commenting it’s just average say so because they probably grew up with meli honey, as most belgians did. It’s pretty good stuff 🙂
Nice, you discovered sugar
We may not realize it, but Europe has a very decent food quality compared to other countries.
Look a the back, I think it’s honey from other parts of Europe than Belgium?
once upon a time someone told me that Meli is quite often using sugar and create fake honey.
They also ship these to the US it seems; [https://www.dutchexpatshop.com/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=meli](https://www.dutchexpatshop.com/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=meli)
It’s alright, not great, I do love their honey waffles though, next time try those
Meli is horrible factory processed junk, harvested mechanically so tons of bees get killed in the process unnecessarily. But I might be biased because my parent is a beekeeper.
This is like the basic bitch cheap honey.
There are better brands, but for the really good stuff buy fresh from a beekeeper. Pretty much every village has at least one amateur beekeeper. Sadly it’s not the time of year for it.
It’s even better when you buy fresh straight from a nearby imker.
For some reason our small country has some straight up grade A tasting honey 🍯
Try the meli koeken aka the honingkoeken they are delicieus
Mmmmmmmm
Ever bought honey from a beekeeper in the US? Hard to imagine it’s worse than Meli.
ITT: people complaining because someone likes something about Belgium, the traditional Belgian pastime.
The honey is really good, and you reminded me that mine is almost empty and I should get more soon!
Sorry some people are so rude on here. Apologies. Glad you enjoyed the honey, I like Meli too 🙂👍🏻
This is whipped honey and can be found all over the USA.
As a beekeeper, my eyes fucking burn.
Next time you have to buy Meli chocolate paste!
Since it sounds like you specifically like the texture, try looking for local creamed or whipped honey. It’s the process that makes that particular variety of Meli so light colored and buttery. Looks like you have some [local(ish) honey farms](https://shop.sweetneshoney.com/collections/creamed-honey) near Houston that sell something similar.
Beekeeper here.
AFAIK, there very little honey in there. Even though Meli does not directly import honey from China (China who’s known for making magic honey with water, glucose, fructose but no bee), they are actually buying stocks from Ukraine, Poland, and Spain, and I’ll let you guess whose they are buying from.
As a rule of thumb, that’s always the case If the packaging contains the mention « contains honey from EU and outside EU » as the European Union forces honey producers to specify the origin.
There’s a really [well documented video](https://youtu.be/gVECGSBrX7M) about that by the French YouTuber « Trouble Fait » if you wanna know more.
Don’t know much about good quality Belgian honey but this producer in my hometown is pretty good https://www.apiland.ro/
We even had a theme park where this originated from.
De [Meli](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meli_Park)
I always though Meli was literally fake honey and called that way because it can’t legally be called “Miel” which means honey in French.
I liked the chocolate pasta when I was a child, maybe I should get some one day.
Check what the the says its nearly all import…probably they sate x procent eu honey and y procent non eu whatever that means, they dont have to precise so probably many chinese stuff…and yeah im a beekeeper…
They are the biggest importer in Belgium and eu if im ´ot mistaken…
A place worth visiting is la Maison du miel on the rue du Midi. La Maison du Miel
+32 2 512 32 50
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hnboYRk1BokZEEMTA
I was not sure if it still existed, I used to go there as a kid and get bonbons fourrés au miel and the most crazy good honey. Worth a visit in my opinion if it has remained as good.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
You should have bought from a small beekeeper, the store brands are filled with processed sugar and can’t be considered real honey. Bonus to this, this ‘big brand’ honey is part of why the wild bee population is dying out. These honeybees they use are outcompeting wild species of bees which specialise in specific plants.
The aoli from belgium.
You should’ve seen the amusement park that goes with that.
Some comments may come off harsh, but it’s their Belgian way of saying “Hope you come back, next time we’ll show you the real deal!”.
This reminds me of a similar experience where I’d carried around 3 bottles of Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce around on our last day in the states as gifts for friends in Belgium. Only to find out the American BBQ sauce they sell in our local supermarket’s ‘international’ section is.. Sweet Baby Ray’s.. Hope you had a nice trip!
When I was a kid, this honey even had his own theme park. It later turned into Plopsaland.
When visiting, always buy local… it’s way better and healthier and you support the people you visit, not a global company.
I guess if you come from a country with lots of crap products and lots of ultra processed foods meli will taste good enough, sadly it’s like saying McDonald’s in USA is better than renowned restaurants in EU.
I recently bought some products from local beekeepers and it was like night and day, meli is good to be put in the trash.
That’s some pretty mid honey here tbh