I have at least 3 of these. They're hardly rare. I think it's just you.

Ummm...

So once upon a time, you actually got honey at the market replenishing your pot, rather than buying jars in the supermarket.

This thing was always in the pot, and you did not use a spoon to get your honey, it works better than a spoon and you just leave it in the pot.

Today americans probably bleach their jars, spoons and bees, but honey is surprisingly shelf stable, having a pot with a little hole with this little plunger sticking out is fine really.

You can buy them in every cutlery section in my country. But it's kind of useless, I'm not sure why this is the design that is associated with honey. A spoon works better.

Check out this fucking neanderthal, doesn't even have a Syrup Schlorper.

I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.

it's sold in every souvenir shop of stuff made with olive tree wood in Greece. and it's a stupid device, so much honey stays stuck in it after using it, absolutely not worth it

I used these all the time as a kid. I haven't seen one in a few years though.

I have a honey pot with one of those that somebody gave me as a gift.

I tried to use it one time to be fancy when I made biscuits, and put it in the middle of the table during dinner. At first people tried to use it, but it was such a fucking pain in the ass, eventually they just stopped trying to be nice about it used a spoon to get the honey bc wtf is the point?

Until reading the comments, I didn't know people actually owned these. I thought it was supposed to look like the stripes of a bee on a stick as a gimmick to sell. But according to the comments, it's designed that way so you can twirl it if your honey container is far away from where you want to spread the honey to keep from dripping everywhere.

I've never seen one of these in real life, whether at home or traveling. I've been to almost all 50 states and 10 other countries.

Anyone with a decent honey set up has these.

I own one, but mostly because I had a phase of getting into speciality honey and was eating honey every day during that time. It's really the optimal tool for the job of getting honey out of a jar and onto your toast while also being easy to clean.

Also, please for the love of God stop buying shitty honey that comes in a bear shaped jar. Go to your local farmers market and pay what you think is way too much money for locally produced honey. Honey where quality really matters and a little bit of really good honey is better than a lot of cheap honey.

I have

Grew up beekeeper, did not have one of these.

You keep slowly rotating it as you move it from the honey to whatever you’re going to put the honey in so the viscous liquid essentially “orbits” this thing instead of dripping onto your countertop. Then when over the target you stop rotating and let it pour off.

Somehow ended up with one of these in my house as a kid. Nobody had bought it, my parents were avowed agaisnt them because they find them hard to use... must have been a gift from the honey fairy. Anyway, I insisted on actually trying to use it one time.

It's not useful. It doesn't do anything that a spoon doesn't do.

You might argue that it spreads the honey in cute little criss cross patterns but honey is either so runny that it all pools together on the toast/cake it's applied to, or is so viscuous that it doesn't do any of that stuff and needs to be spread with a knife.

Honeydippers might be a medieval "emperor's new clothes" style hoax.

I guess that works if you use more runny honey but my honey is so stiff that you need to use a hammer and a chisel. I friggin hate honey that is almost liquid, it needs to be more like a rock.

I'm a ~4yr amateur apiarist (US based, but not one of the dumb ones.. depending). These are actually great for serving our raw honey. It pours off perfectly if you spin it.

Yeah I just summon the upside down bear

Really, my dad raised bees and we had them all the time. I thought everyone did.

Eh... I have one and use it.

What are you monsters using, a spoon?! /s

FWIW I also have a butter knife, a saucer, 3 graters... I mean nobody needs any of that, you can survive with knives and forks but if you do cook frequently, good tools help IMHO.

What you mean. I have one. Is pretty common. Is OP American?