Maybe I would try sprinkling the free salted caramel spice on some free rice pudding? 
Yep, spicy honey. Popular on pizza in some parts.
Having lived here in the western US for a long time, doesn’t seem trendy here at all.
Maybe the foods folks elsewhere are putting it on qualifies.
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It’s only a few trendy pizza places in Toronto that seem to feature hot honey on pizza or hot honey on breakfast sandwiches.
I have tried it on a breakfast sandwich and I liked it.
I have seen spicy syrup on fried chicken and waffles at brunch at a few places. I like ordinary honey on fried chicken, would be okay with hot honey.
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We have a really fantastic Detroit-style pizza place back in the boonies, and they have a hot honey pepperoni pizza with ricotta. I would much prefer the pizza without the hot honey.
That’s why I usually get the garlic dill pickle or the triple threat 
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It’s in the grocery stores.
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Yeah, but… there are many products in grocery stores that aren’t added to damn near everything from pizza to burrata to Brussels sprouts to fried chicken, etc. etc.
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Do we need the extra salt in ‘salted caramel’ this or that or the extra sweet calories of hot honey this or that? It is a personal choice of how you manage your food intake.
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I think it’s more of a case of want, rather than need.
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After reading about hot honey . I have some and will be putting it on steamed Brussels sprouts tonite .
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I saw honey as a topping at a pizza joint in Kobe, Japan on February 28th of this year, just before I returned to the US after 15 years in Japan. I posted it here on HO because I had never heard of it and thought it might just be the Japanese being weird about pizza toppings because they have sooo many odd toppings!
But a few kind members here were very helpful in informing me that hot honey was/had been “a thing” here in the states for a while.
I don’t like anything sweet on my pizza and therefore didn’t order any. Instead I just had a slice of pepperoni pizza which was pretty good.
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Honey is nice on Greek tirpopita/ cheese pie. Some places started suggesting that 7 or 8 years ago.
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I can see that being tasty. But not on pizza.
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Oops, that should be tiropita!
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This is hot honey, though.
I prefer my heat source to not be honey based.
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Hot honey . Mikes , or other brands. About as hot as a extremely mild jalapeño. Sure its trendy. But i use it now and then . Im not into spices that burn your palate. Its like the raspberry Chipotle barbecue sauce I have in the fridge .
Hot honey on pizza is not a recent food trend.
And, for what it’s worth, I love hot honey on my pizzas, esp. with burrata and roasted garlic.
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I have recipes that call for both honey and chili flakes, Tabasco, or other “hotties”, so it would fit in with those.
Not on a pizza, though.
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You live in California. It takes a long time for some trends to reach Toronto, and even longer to reach southwestern Ontario.
LOL
Quicker now with the Internet.
I don’t remember seeing hot honey on pizza in Ontario before the past 5 years or so.
So it’s been around in California for 21ish years. LOL
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I know. I have a very high tolerance for heat.
And a very, very low tolerance for sweet shit on savory stuff.
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