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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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.
The definition of milk literally includes plant milks. Milk has been used to describe these beverages for as long as they have existed.
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.
What a bunch of snowflakes. Imagine that being the biggest problem in your life.
I have seen coconut milk sold as 'coconut drink', even though it is not used as drink. That is stupid.
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.
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.
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.
I hate that a sausage comes from a "food company" instead of a butcher. (Or grocer for vegan sausage)
So, food companies, just how much actual meat is there in your sausages and what animal parts are you using?
If it's ground up and tubed into a thin, edible casing skin, it's a sausage.
The German emperor's last chancellor Bismarck, who was decently leaning on the conservative side, said famously that there are two things where you really don't want to know how they are made: Politics and sausages.
"Ground up dead body of an animal fisted into another animals anal canal"
I mean we can just call it what it is
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.
There's definitely some bad actors in food packaging, though. In some countries, it's insane how hard it is to differentiate between butter and some non-dairy spread at the grocery.
I take it a step further, I don't just make sure that I take the right weiner home, I inspect it before I put it in my mouth. and especially give it a sniff test.
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!
sausages are already pretty much non-meat products though, unless its actually well made sausage
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.
es geht um die wurst
alles hat ein ende…
That's fucking stupid. Sausage can be anything ordinary sausage proves this.
Just call it Vurst and be happy.
desperate dinosaurs are scrambling to protect their investments in the torment of animals, who knew
Remembering that person who bought a "soy chorizo" on accident because they read the label as a sentence.
spoiler
"I'm a sausage."
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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