Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’
Uncategorized
39
Posts
17
Posters
0
Views
-
@lepaggoth @afewbugs Given the pride the French have in their cuisine, I suspect a suggestion like this could cause an international incident!
I'm going to guess the famously influential French agriculture lobby do have something to do with this, however.
@GlasWolf @afewbugs ...well, they should have given a thought to pride many people have in their native languages, before coming to tell how they want this and that word from other languages banned because the french don't understand them. Would serve them right if french agriculture lobby resulted only making things harder for french cuisine folks, just because their suggestion was so inherently stupid.
-
@afewbugs @BenCotterill The finger and dick industries have less of a lobbying presence at an EU level, so those aren’t protected.
-
Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’
"A ban would mean, for example, bean burgers sold in Europe having to be relabelled as “patties” or “discs”, while the Welsh breakfast staple Glamorgan sausages – made of cheese and leeks – would probably become Glamorgan “tubes”."
@afewbugs also Oatly losing a court case around the use of the word ‘milk’ recently, because it might be confusing.
Soy milk has been common for decades, anyone who’s confused by the concept has only themselves to blame.
-
undefined oblomov@sociale.network shared this topic
-
@afewbugs also Oatly losing a court case around the use of the word ‘milk’ recently, because it might be confusing.
Soy milk has been common for decades, anyone who’s confused by the concept has only themselves to blame.
@benjamineskola @afewbugs honestly. Courts assuming everyone is an uneducated twit. What about 'meat'? The contents of a nut shell is the nutmeat https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nutmeat
-
@benjamineskola @afewbugs honestly. Courts assuming everyone is an uneducated twit. What about 'meat'? The contents of a nut shell is the nutmeat https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nutmeat
@benjamineskola @afewbugs maybe nut milk sellers should deliberately name the product 'nutmeat juice' out of spite
-
@benjamineskola @afewbugs maybe nut milk sellers should deliberately name the product 'nutmeat juice' out of spite
@benjamineskola @afewbugs is coconut water actually water?
-
@afewbugs also Oatly losing a court case around the use of the word ‘milk’ recently, because it might be confusing.
Soy milk has been common for decades, anyone who’s confused by the concept has only themselves to blame.
@benjamineskola @afewbugs they're not confused, they're deliberately 'getting hold of the wrong end of the stick'.
-
@benjamineskola @afewbugs they're not confused, they're deliberately 'getting hold of the wrong end of the stick'.
@capnthommo @afewbugs I say ‘confused’ because that’s the explicit reasoning given by the court, not because I necessarily believe that anyone is genuinely confused.
(It was a trademark case, so presumably the concern is whether someone might accidentally pick up Oatly thinking it came from a cow. 🤷)
-
Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’
"A ban would mean, for example, bean burgers sold in Europe having to be relabelled as “patties” or “discs”, while the Welsh breakfast staple Glamorgan sausages – made of cheese and leeks – would probably become Glamorgan “tubes”."
@afewbugs there is already a relaxation around chocolate because most of the chocolate bars sold in the UK should be called sugar bars with chocolate flavour because the majority ingredient is sugar.
When the UK joined the EU, they relaxed the regulations to allow UK chocolate bars to continue to be sold under that name -
@Nickiquote @afewbugs There is now a record on a server somewhere indicating that I typed “EU law penis” into a search engine.
@BenCotterill @afewbugs As Beck nearly sang: “I wanna defy the logic of EU dick laws”
-
@benjamineskola @afewbugs is coconut water actually water?
@benjamineskola @afewbugs hold up. What about milky : resembling milk in colour
Milky oat drink.
-
@BenCotterill @afewbugs As Beck nearly sang: “I wanna defy the logic of EU dick laws”
@Nickiquote @afewbugs Whoops. That’s another mondegreen. I thought it was define.
-
@Nickiquote @afewbugs Whoops. That’s another mondegreen. I thought it was define.
@BenCotterill @afewbugs No, Beck was out there saying things that would not be so fondly welcomed post-Epstein.
-
@BenCotterill @afewbugs No, Beck was out there saying things that would not be so fondly welcomed post-Epstein.
@Nickiquote @afewbugs “I let J.D be my chaperone”?
-
@afewbugs there is already a relaxation around chocolate because most of the chocolate bars sold in the UK should be called sugar bars with chocolate flavour because the majority ingredient is sugar.
When the UK joined the EU, they relaxed the regulations to allow UK chocolate bars to continue to be sold under that name@peterbrown @afewbugs seemingly some of these products now have so little chocolate in them they they can't be called chocolate any more. Needless to say the threshold for 'milk chocolate' in the UK is already ridiculously low.
At least they haven't (yet) resorted to adding vomit flavour to them like American Hershey bars.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
-
@Checcoseg @sicurezza ciao, ti ho aggiunto alle stanze matrix italiane, a breve dovresti vedere i messaggi arrivare, mentre quelli precedenti non saranno visibili per motivi di privacy :)
-
Le isole Turks e Caicos tornano nella lista nera UE dei paradisi fiscali. Incluso anche il Vietnam
@news
https://www.eunews.it/2026/02/16/le-isole-turks-e-caicos-tornano-nella-lista-nera-ue-dei-paradisi-fiscali-incluso-anche-il-vietnam/
La decisione sarà formalmente adottata dal consiglio Ecofin. Cancellate Fiji, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago.
-
i was glad you saw the new feature, and it's one of those things i wish i had noticed was possible before.
and btw -- thanks to @manton -- a developer who listens to ideas from users.
-
Vabbe' dai buona giornata
-
@dingo ciao, ti ho invitato nelle stanze matrix italiane, fra poco dovresti vederle popolate di messaggi, mentre tutti i messaggi precedenti non dovrebbero essere visibili per motivi di privacy.
-
I thought this might be a nice new profile picture, but it just doesn't work well in a smaller size. ^^°
#MastoArt #SelfPortrait #chibi #alcoholMarker #colorPencil
-
le dichiarazioni del governo russo mi ricordano le pubblicità settimanali di divani e divani.
-
"Noi non interferiamo nelle scelte degli elettori". Ma certo. La scelta USA per partiti europei MAGA-friendly è ovvia e scontata. Bisognerà spiegarlo a Meloni che finge di non capirlo. Poi, tra qualche settimana sapremo se Trump ha dato il bacio della morte a Orbán.
Marco Rubio says Viktor Orbán’s leadership is ‘essential’ to US interests https://www.ft.com/content/929c5c6f-b98a-42ce-84d0-844f2e10df29
