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.

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.

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

Anyone with a decent honey set up has these.

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.

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.

I have

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.

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.

Grew up beekeeper, did not have one of these.

I’ve got a couple variations in a drawer. I don’t use a lot of honey so I don’t use them a lot.

Yeah I just summon the upside down bear

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.

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I've got 3 of those at home (actually got one as a gift last week) but we don't use it because the open honey jar attracts ants. So we use spoons. I do like it though.