Firstly, are you basing your opinion of honey on real honey from a beekeeper? Because anything off a store shelf is barely honey in my opinion. There are so many flavors and varieties of honey that I can't imagine not being able to find one that you love. Secondly, have you ever had really high quality comb honey? When we talk about eating comb honey, we aren't really talking about what you are describing here. ... high quality comb honey is going to be extremely thin fast-drawn white wax that will basically dissolve in your mouth. I feel like if your impression of comb honey is "waxy", then either you are very sensitive to the wax or the comb honey you had wasn't the best.
First Q, before having bees, I bought honey from a family run plumbing store ... (cardboard box full of jars, and a price on the box. Drop money in the box, pull out a jar of honey, mostly an honor system thing. The guy who had the bees was a friend of the plumbing store family... he would go by, pick up the money and put more jars in the box) It tasted noticeably better than WalMart honey I don't know exactly how to describe the difference except a fuller flavor but still light. I have no idea of it's grading or if you would call it quality. It usually was a little cloudy, not much, but not crystal clear either.
Second Q, I'm probably sensitive to the wax, as you put it. I tried some of the white wax honeycomb (and the gold stuff too) from the same cut-out and didn't care for it. It's not the flavor that I didn't care for, nor the texture either really. It was more about the feeling that my mouth was coated with wax afterward. To me, the wax itself was flavorless, so it just tasted like honey. Kinda "what's the point of adding wax to it?". Come to think about it, there are several store-bought chocolates that seem full of wax too, but that's to keep it from melting. And .. It's not that I dislike honey, it just can't stand alone. (If I'm in the mood, I could probably eat my weight in baklava.) But, if I have a piece of toast and am craving something sweet, I'm much more likely to grab the maple syrup than the honey... even though I'm cheap and the price of the real stuff has gotten astronomical. I would grab the honey before the fake maple stuff, though. Honey is good in tea sometimes, but I usually prefer it unsweetened. One of the few gripes I have about southern food is why so many in the south like to drink tea flavored syrup. Anyway, I'm probably just strange and like the slumgummy flavor?
Truth be told, I've never bought comb honey except when the kids asked for it. When I was a kid, one grandmother loved the stuff and always had it around ... I didn't care for it then. I don't remember her buying it so I don't know where she got it. She had several things delivered from local farmer-ish people ... eggs, milk, veggies, I remember ... not honey, but it's possible, maybe even likely. Crayfish, oysters and shrimp too, but they were caught rather than farmed.
