"Ah. Stilton?"
"Sorry."
Cant be much of a cheese shop without Stilton, now can it.
What about a nice slice of Stilton Grommit?
"Ah. Stilton?"
"Sorry."
"White Stilton?"
"No."
"It's not much of a cheese shop really, is it?"
"Finest in the district, sir."
"And what leads you to that conclusion?"
"Well, it's so clean."
"Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese."
This isn’t really some new malfeasance that the EU cooked up.
Protection of Designations of Origin date back at least to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property of 1883. (All major nations were party to that from the beginning.)
Of course one wonders why the town Stilton is not part of that particular Designation of Origin.
More Collectivist horse sh*t.