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		cainxinth 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina In NYC, they found red honey which was coming from bees drinking at a maraschino cherry factory: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html Unrelated, but that led to the police finding a marijuana grow operation in the basement: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/nyregion/secret-marijuana...

Rebelgecko 7 days ago | [–]

The New Yorker article about it also has some additional details: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino...

pama 8 days ago | [–]

Perhaps this was not unrelated after all, as the bee detectives might have sensed the smell of the flowers.

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