Meat-Honey
Much like you, I see a multitude of bullshit fake news on the web in the course of a single day. Most goes in one eye and… out the other? Is that even a thing? Sometimes I see something that peaks my morbid curiosity and I have to fact-check them myself.
Like Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton and severed head. Yeah. Go check THAT shit out and come back here. I’ll wait. Pretty gnarly aye?
Another that garnered my attention was something called a vulture bee. As the name implies these bees feed off carcasses instead of pollen. They burrow into a dead animal, usually via the eye socket (just like a maggot), feed off the dead meat which is then brought back to the hive, regurgitated for the worker vulture bees, who in turn produce a “meat honey” from this putrefied flesh. Unlike regular bees they don’t go after pollen. Nor do they make an abundance of their precious meat-honey. Apparently it is so exquisite that they make just enough to sustain their hive – unlike regular pollen-honey producing bees who provide an over abundance of the heavenly concoction that has always adorned my cabinet with its presence.
Now if you’re sick like me, you have to be wondering what this honey would taste like, right? Meaty? From what I can gather, those who have had the testicular fortitude to taste such a rare and limited treat, have described it as smokey, salty, intense. Even, uniquely sweet. I’m getting the Meat Sweats just thinking about it. Perhaps drizzle it over a medium-rare ribeye? Glorious!
Oh, and they are also are part of the Meliponines tribe of bees which are distinctly unique in that they don’t have stingers. Probably a good thing. Can you imagine getting stung by one after they’ve been crawling around the inside of roadkill? Who knows what kind of virus we’d be introducing ourselves to.