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what should 'himalayan cliff honey' actually mean on a label

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 Lena
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A question about the phrase rather than the honey. If a jar says himalayan cliff honey, I'd expect three things sitting behind it: a place specific enough to name, a harvest that actually happened on a rock face rather than in boxes on a hillside, and a season.

Mostly I see it used as atmosphere. Nothing on the label ties those words to a batch, and when you ask, the answer gets vaguer instead of more precise. So what's the honest minimum before that phrase means anything at all?


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minimum is it survives one follow up email. ask which cliff and watch "himalayan" quietly widen into "the himalayan region" by the second reply


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District and who harvested, that is my minimum. Cliff is not a style. It is a place with a name and people who climb it. Once it turns into a flavour word, the family who did the climb has disappeared from the sentence entirely.


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 Lena
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@KiranFromNepal that's the version I'd want printed on the jar. @BrandWatcher and the widening is the tell - I've watched a named district become "the region" and then "the Himalayas" across three emails.


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 Tom
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realistically nobody is putting coordinates on a jar though. district, season, batch id you can ask questions about - thats roughly the ceiling, and its already more than most sellers manage


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