On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:00:00 -0700, rbowman
wrote:

On 01/01/2016 04:56 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
You may know the answer to another question I have about this honey:
https://i.imgur.com/dZ6B5vm.gif

What do those strange hieroglyphic symbols mean?

There is no word "organic" on it, nor any "USDA" symbol.
But, there is a big "D" with a small "k" inside of it with "pareve" below that.

Similarly, my Costco "Kirkland" Maple Syrup has strange markings too!
https://i.imgur.com/Hkxts0N.gif

It has a big "U" with a circle around it and it says "USDA/Organic"
and "Eco/Cert".


http://www.kashrut.com/agencies/
http://www.dallaskosher.org/

Yes, the big D with the k inside is Dallas Kosher.

https://oukosher.org/

And the OU is the OU.

You'll be happy to know your honey is kosher. Probably halal too if
you're a Muslim. Pareve means it's neither fleishig (meat) or milchig
(dairy) so it can be used sweeten your tea with milk or make a sauce for
your ribs (beef, of course)

You might not be so happy to know the price you paid for the honey
includes the fee charged by one of the kosher concerns to certify the
company isn't lubricating the extractor with lard or something.

Why do you say something like this? The cost of inspecting a honey
facility is probably less than a penny a bottle. It's nothing like
meat where inspection has to be continuous and adds, with the other
requirements for kosher meat, several dollars a pound to the cost of
meat.

For a product like honey, especially since it has only one ingredient,
the inspector would only have to visit once or twice a year for a
couple hours, if that much. The first time, they'd show him around
the plant, he'd learn how honey was bottled there, he'd see that there
are no other ingredients (He'd probably already have learned that
before his first visit.), maybe they'd have a little tea with honey ,
and he'd be done. After that, it would take even less time for the
inspection.

Unflavored honey, as this product is, wouldn't even require inspection
except that it's heated (what difference that makes, I'm not sure) and
this company probaby solicited the inspection in order to increase
sales, which they wouldn't do if the price went up much.

http://www.dallaskosher.org/commercial
NORTH DALLAS HONEY/NATURE NATE'S
6573 County Road 124
McKinney, TX 75071
(214-701-3443)
With offices in Frisco, TX North Dallas Honey Company has
been providing local, raw and unfiltered honey for you and your family
since 1972. They have partnered with North Texas beekeepers to
provide top-quality, local raw honey. Their Texas honey is gently
warmed and strained through cheesecloth to remove the "bee knees,"
leaving the enzymes and the antioxidants of the honey. For constancy,
they blend a variety of honeys from honey-producing plants, including
clover, vetch, wildflower, and mesquite.
This refers to all their products and not especially the one in
this thread.