Posted on 04/09/2014 4:32:00 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
He's talking about the European Union wanting to rename the meats in his case. The E.U. wants to limit what we call certain meats that are linked to specific regions across the pond. That means, for example, any bologna, black forest ham or brat not made in its motherland would need some other name.
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>>There should be zero compliance with this law<<
And we will indeed ignore it (even teh one will have to follow US Business on this one).
We still won’t follow French wine naming rules.
However, if the euroweenies want to name the middle finger we flip at them we might adopt that name...
First they come for cheese; now they want the meat.
Enough—this is war!
There is a region here in Georgia, in and around Vidalia where Vidalia onions are grown. Georgia has strict legislation about what other onions grown outside this region can be called.
I’m sure that things like Wisconsin cheese, or many other products in this country have some sort of legal protection in this regard.
My BIL owned a few trucks recently and one of the runs they made was to Mexico to pick up Vidalia onions grown there. They were sold as Vidalias too.
If I ran a business, any state trying to impose name rules could KMA. Especially seeing how these are the same meats being made by emigrants from these countries.
First wine, then cheese, now meats. What’s next, breads?
They are collapsing to socialism and Islam but they are worried what we call our food.
Good luck with that.
I was talking to a pig the other day...he seemed very upset about the term “spam.” He looked at me with tears in his little piggy eyes and said “I don’t even HAVE e-mail!”
Sheesh. If consumers really cared that “Blue Lake Green Beans” didn’t really come from Blue Lake, they would only buy the genuine article. The free market still rocks.
Europe was.......
This disease has been going on within the eu for decades.
They must have run out of internal targets and so are attacking fresh ground. Commie control freaks.
The problem is that “Vidalia onion” has just became a generic name to describe a sweet onion, just as “bratwurst” has become a generic name to describe a particular type of sausage. So you can’t really go and retroactively reclaim the name.
Wisconsin cheeses is pretty general; for example, a Wisconsin cheddar or a Wisconsin blue means that they’re from Wisconsin, but the cheddar or blue describes the type of cheese. Maybe the Europeans should just go for inserting the word “true” or even their country name before the regional name that has now become a generic description: “True Brie,” or “French Brie,” for example, instead of trying to get the rest of the world to retro-adapt to their demands.
And Vidalia onions from Vidalia could be called something like “Georgia Vidalias.”
Here’ an answer:
FUEU
Even effete Europeans (who have to bring in muzzies to get their women pregnant) smell the weakness emanating from the US government.
My guess is that if you looked at the name closely it would say “Vidalia-like”....with Vidalia very pronounced and the “like” much smaller.
Georgia law has no authority in other states.
Understood. And that is why there is a special Chamber of Commerce, if you will, that spends a great deal of its time debunking claims of Vidalia-ness, marketing, advertising, outreach, education, etc.
One can grow a strain of onions sired in that area in other regions, but it is believed that the soil in which they are grown in and around Vidalia is what perpetuates the taste.
Me? I don’t care one way or the other. I was merely pointing out that there are all sorts of protections that have the force of law behind them, too.
I can’t disagree with that. Free and open capitalism, yes.
But that always comes with life’s little annoyances - like false claims, underhandedness, etc.
Who is making false claims about bratwurst? Has there ever been even a single case?
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