More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.

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[–] 125 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I think the rules should be even stricter. An Hamburger should only be made in Hamburg, otherwise it's a Minced Corpse Patty.

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    [–] 75 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Listen, I'm not a vegan, but I find this names that are bent around the bush so annoying.

    Yeah, I get it , it's not literally milk. But calling it "almond milk" is waaay smoother than "almond drink" or "almond concoction" or whatever.

    Same with Malzbier.

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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    The definition of milk literally includes plant milks. Milk has been used to describe these beverages for as long as they have existed.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I agree, but that's not what the marketing law in Germany says. Not long ago, it was changed by conservatives to only include real cow's milk.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    But calling it "almond milk" is waaay smoother than "almond drink" or "almond concoction"

    By having to give it a weird name those products and the sustainability argument behind it get associated with weirdness, and are less appealing to people who might otherwise consider trying them.

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    [–] 40 points 6 months ago

    I couldn't care less what you call them. You can call them vegetable dicks and I would still eat them. It's just a ridiculous waste of resources powered by the meat lobby who have seen a portion of their market share disappear.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm a happy meat eater and considering the number of different kinds of sausage with all different ingredients in different proportions and different textures and different herbs and spices and different skins and different sizes and different ways to prepare them I think this is absolutely ridiculous.

    If tiny dried sausages with lamb and herbs in natural skin are just as much sausage as spiced up raw mince in a plastic skin are just as much sausage as precooked hot dogs with pork and salt but mostly potato filler in mysterious edible non natural skin, then a sausage with vegetable mash for filling is definitely a sausage as well.

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    [–] 26 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I hate that a sausage comes from a "food company" instead of a butcher. (Or grocer for vegan sausage)

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If it's ground up and tubed into a thin, edible casing skin, it's a sausage.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago

    "Ground up dead body of an animal fisted into another animals anal canal"

    I mean we can just call it what it is

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Sausages can be called "links". Burgers can be called "patties". The only people pissed about Soy Milk, Vegan Burgers and Veggie Sausages are the corporations who sell meat exclusively, and the people who don't read food packaging. Smart vegan & vegetarians know that you need to read the ingredients before you buy that product. I always make sure I go home with the right wiener.

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    [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sooo. There's a word.

    Kackwurst, die

    Grammatik
    Substantiv (Femininum)

    • Genitiv Singular: Kackwurst
    • Nominativ Plural: Kackwürste

    Aussprache
    [ˈkakvʊʁst]

    Worttrennung
    Kack-wurst

    Clearly, this may be, or may not be a meat product. If they want to regulate something so so far, they must go all the way!

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    [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    The whole point of sausages existing is lack of meat

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    sausages are already pretty much non-meat products though, unless its actually well made sausage

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    [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    That is so silly. I love pork sausage but veggie sausage is the next best one and clearly is sausage.

    Same as "burger", it is a preparation not an ingredient.

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    That's fucking stupid. Sausage can be anything ordinary sausage proves this.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Just call it Vurst and be happy.

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Sausage can be whatever as the name corresponds to beinh heavily salted.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    desperate dinosaurs are scrambling to protect their investments in the torment of animals, who knew

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Remembering that person who bought a "soy chorizo" on accident because they read the label as a sentence.

    spoiler"I'm a sausage."

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    Sure, a vegi sausage is still a sausage.

    Same thing in Swiss; it's Oat Drink, can't be called Oat Milk. Guess the meat industry is strong in EU.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    "Minced corpse in colon + antibiotics"

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