Maverick wrote:

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> While that may be true in the broadest sense, we don't eat anything that
> comes out of the bees. AFAIK, honey comes from the pollen collected by the
> bees and stored around their legs. Am I wrong?

It does come out of bees. The gathering bees buzz around collecting nectar from
flowers. They have two stomachs, one which they use for eating and digestion, and one
that is their little honey bag. After they get their second stomach full of nectar they
return to the hive where the nectar is sucked out of their stomachs by the worker bees.
The workers then chew it for about a half hour while their little bee enzymes work
their magic on the nectar, breaking down the complex sugars into simpler, more
digestible sugars which are resistant to bacteria. Then they deposit it around the hive
and fan it to dry it to a thicker consistency.

So not only has your honey actually been in a bee, it has been in at least two bees.

This is probably the sort of thing that you didn't really want to know about what the
heck honey really is and how it is made.