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.
I think the rules should be even stricter. An Hamburger should only be made in Hamburg, otherwise it’s a Minced Corpse Patty.
It should actually be called Cow Mince. We have Pork Chops, Lamb Chops, they should use Cow as well.
Found the vegan!
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Their use of corpse. Generally vegans go this route. The idea is to make the food slightly less palatable and to cause thought about where meat comes from and the horrors some animals face.
But sometimes it’s just funny and makes meat sound more metal.
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.
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.
“Creamy nut juice” just didn’t do very well in the test marketing
The problem i have is just that i walk into a store, buy some cheese for my cheese toast, then later at home discover it’s not “cheese” but some disgusting mixture of plant oils and flavour agents that makes me want to vomit and throw up.
The problem is not vegan products existing, but them deceiving and tricking the ordinary person about what they are with no clear labeling. It simply has to be explicit that it is not what a normal person thinks when they read “cheese”, but some other experimental food instead.
That’s BS and you know it is, stop lying and you’ll feel less hollow inside.
that’s not true. you’re claiming to know me better than i know myself. what hybris
“Ground up dead body of an animal fisted into another animals anal canal”
I mean we can just call it what it is
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?
Ngl the difference between a local butchers farm sausages & mass produced meat tubes is huge.
Sooo. There’s a word.
Kackwurst, die
Grammatik
Substantiv (Femininum)- Genitiv Singular: Kackwurst
- Nominativ Plural: Kackwürste
Aussprache
[ˈkakvʊʁst]Worttrennung
Kack-wurstClearly, 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!
Are kackwursts vegetarian? Secreted products are, but excreted?
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 can’t believe it’s not butter!
I can’t believe that I’m lying when I don’t say it’s not true that this isn’t non-butter!
The other day i tried to buy an oat drink, for my coffee. I usually have a favourite brand, but i don’t care as much. It didn’t have any that i recognized, but damn the one i bought, i had to read really closely what kind of “milk” it was.
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.
Food safety is always a plus. :)
The whole point of sausages existing is lack of meat
That’s fucking stupid. Sausage can be anything ordinary sausage proves this.
es geht um die wurst
alles hat ein ende…
… nur die Wurst hat zwei
sausages are already pretty much non-meat products though, unless its actually well made sausage
According to rumors, the EU intends to classify Finnish sausage “HK Sininen” as a pastry because it contains so much flour.
“Minced corpse in colon + antibiotics”
Sausage can be whatever as the name corresponds to beinh heavily salted.
Just call it Vurst and be happy.
Not the vurst idea I’ve heard.
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Alternatively: VVurst
Remembering that person who bought a “soy chorizo” on accident because they read the label as a sentence.
spoiler
“I’m a sausage.”
They should call it “chorisoya” to avoid confusion. It sounds almost the same anyway and is kind of a neat name.
But such a ban is needed. Urgently.
They want to lie? They even think that their business depends on such lies? Then the market will eliminate them anyway, and nobody is going to mourn them.
A sausage is a sausage, no matter what you stuff inside it. It’s the shape, use and all the practicalities of a sausage that determine that it’s a sausage.
When I hear “sausage” I know what to do with the thing. I can’t know what it includes.
Beef? Pork? Chicken? Horse? Peas? Beans? Mushroom? Tofu? That’s to be determined by the other words on the package.A sausage is a sausage, no matter what you stuff inside it
That is limited to english vocabulary I guess. In spanish there are distictions between salchichas, chorizos, longanizas, etc, and all of them are their own kind of “embutidos”. So in spanish, it would make sense to name it “embutido de guisantes”
Similarly with milk. I know you may milk nuts (jk), but not the “frutos secos” kind. How would you milk an oatmeal? A grain of rice?
And this is about the English word in the English use, with English rules, so let’s stick to those, shall we.
Milk is another word with another angle. The connotation is no longer, in everyday layman use, connected to “something you get out of a teet” and instead it is what children drink, you put in cereals or coffee, etc.
That’s the beauty about languages, they evolve with the needs of the populace that uses them.
We no longer live in an agrarian society, so when somebody now speaks of milk, you don’t think, “what did they milk it from”, you think “what are they going to put that thing in that they bought from a shop”.
Milk of Magnesia. Coconut milk. Dandelion milk. These are all descriptions of very long standing (100s of years).
evolve
I don’t think it means what you think it means.
That’s the beauty about languages, they evolve with the needs of the populace that uses them.
In this context, no, language does not evolve. It adapts to the way it is being used.
I certainly would not like to reach a point where we must use doublespeak-eske language to communicate with certain people, but it feels like we are heading there.
Oh ok. So the word evolve hasnt adapted to mean “slowly changes over time due to small changes” in day to day speak, along with many other meanings. See pokemon, video game bosses etc. etc.
We already doublespeak in many situations. For example “theory” in layman’s terms is used like “hypothesis” instead of it’s true meaning. Where as it’s true meaning is pretty much only used in scientific terminology.
Anyway I’m sure 100% of people understood exactly what I meant.
You did not use the word incorrectly.
Thank you
Language does evolve. Here are a few examples of the word being used in this context:
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/resource-library-evolution-language/
To answer the last they’re labeled:
Bebida de Soja (avena, almendras etc), sometimes adding ‘for baristas’…but that’s only one brand.
Soy Drink.
No milk in the description at all, that’s just for the English.
No milk in the description at all, that’s just for the English.
My point exactly. We need to differentiate between products. An “embutido” is not the same as a “fiambre” for example, even when you find both kind of “salchichas”
Also, this being an EU ruling proposal, it should meet the specs for all members, and english is only a fraction of the official spoken languages
But sure, I guess we all milk nuts every now and then ;) (this i is intended as a light hearted joke, you nuts)
Its not a lie… thats how people know and name the item. In fact this ban would punish people using natural established names for things thst have been in use for decades. It is nonsensical.
