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Okay first of all, I'm a lifelong vegetarian german.
Second of all, Mettwurst is most definitely not a qualifier to mean "meat sausage", it is a certain type of sausage like Frankfurter or Wiener Würstchen.
When people say Wurst or Würstchen it is still understood as a meat sausage unless additional qualifiers are added such as veggie. Sad as it is.
Is it true that German vegetarians fear the wurst?
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Mett did mean meat at some point in time before it came to refer to minced meat specifically. I think Mettwurst isn’t old enough for the “meat” meaning though, and also the author missed a chance here by not going for the even older meaning of just “food” (applies to English meat too) and claiming that we differentiate between edible sausages like Mettwurst and inedible ones like Kackwurst.
The EU should contact Ordinary Sausage about this
(On a more serious note, this just seems like an (at this point very common attempt) from the meat industry to label non-meat items from using the term meat in their branding)
Buffalo wings are named after the city, ya dingus.
If the qualifier is only meat, nothing can be called a sausage with all the filler and other ingredients they're adding these days.
And in the end, it'll be in the supermarket with a label saying VEGGIE alternative for a SAUSAGE so it's all legally ok and nothing much changes
That's a dishonest representation of the qualifier. It's must have meat not must have only meat.
The proposal states that “meat” means exclusively the edible parts of an animal and sets a list of 29 “forbidden” words for plant-based products, such as “beef”, “chicken”, “pork”, “bacon” and descriptive terms such as “breast”, “wings”, “drumsticks” or “ribs”
Reads like only meat.
Why are you quoting the definition of meat? Your previous comment was about sausage.
If the qualifier is only meat, nothing can be called a sausage with all the filler and other ingredients they’re adding these days.
Which the proposal defines as:
But to the legislators of the EU, a sausage can now have only one meaning: a cylindrical object containing meat.
Nowhere does it say only meat.
Reads to me as saying that it must contain meat, not that it must only contain meat.
So any sausage with meat as one of its ingredients would count, but anything that doesn't contain any meat would not.
Which, to me, is ridiculous, because most vegetarian options have a variation on the word "replacement" on the packaging.
This is just the meat industry throwing it's weight around.
That'd be crazy. It would mean 90% tofu and 10% leftover meat can be put in the meat section.
Maybe? I don't know the specific rules, so I just went the quotes text.
But yeah, that would be crazy.
As a non-European, this just sounds consistent with EU policy to me. I feel like people react to it differently based on what food they decided needs a hyperspecific definition today.
Ask YOUR MOM
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Thank god you put the /j tag on it, I would've been offended otherwise! /s
Icantbelieveitsnotsausage™
Asian cuisine have had salad sausages for time. They don't have meat in them so I don't know what all the fuss is