▲ 280 ▼ Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’ (www.theguardian.com) submitted 6 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/europe@feddit.org 116 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Do hot dogs legally qualify as sausages in the EU? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* I don't know. We all have different words for "sausage" and different cultural attachments to them. In Swedish, the word for sausage, "korv" is widely used (albeit informally) as a word describing the shape, and not necssesarily the product. Hot dogs are in the section of sausages at least, but the meat % is almost always on the front of the packages. Which for "hot dogs" is ~34%. I don't know who buys them. Personally I go for the 70+ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* I don't know. We all have different words for "sausage" and different cultural attachments to them. In Swedish, the word for sausage, "korv" is widely used (albeit informally) as a word describing the shape, and not necssesarily the product. Hot dogs are in the section of sausages at least, but the meat % is almost always on the front of the packages. Which for "hot dogs" is ~34%. I don't know who buys them. Personally I go for the 70+ permalink fedilink source parent