J.Lef wrote:
> I am not a large consumer of honey, but use honey in my daily
> teas, in my pizza crusts and occassionaly in a recipe.
> Now is it me, but the sweetness factor of the grocery store
> honeys (all the major labels) has seen to gone down, especially in the last
> two or three years. My taste buds are just fine with everything else, so I
> know its not me.
> Am I just imagining this, or is it possible, manufacturers are
> somehow diluting the honey somehow, even though the ingrediants say just
> honey?

It's you. People are born with just so many taste buds. Actually they
have many more prior to birth than after, and lose more than half of
what remains within the first few years of life... and continue to lose
taste buds throughout life at a pretty steady rate. If you are over
thrity you have already lost all but a relatively few. This is why the
elderly tend to have problems eating properly, not only does their
sense of taste become profoundly diminished, their sense of smell
too... sight and hearing as well. What makes you think you're any
different? Whenever you see middle aged people depicted as
professional tasters (coffee, chocolate, wine, beer, etc.) that's a
total fraud... they no longer have what to taste with. When I see over
fiftys sniffing, swishing, and slurping wine like the know what they're
doing I laugh, it would need to be Listerine before they could say,
especially the french, how can they sniff wine when they can't even
smell their own aroma from not bathing for a year. hehe

Sheldon