EU full of Picky Eaters

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Spiffor

At the contrary, you should be glad. We are trying to get you eat real Greek feta, instead of Danish hideous Feta We're doing everything possible to improve your quality of life and you're whining !

Just remember, Spiffor...

If everyone goes for Greek Feta, the price will go up.

If the price goes up, more Greek companies will make "real greek feta".

If that happens, quality must certainly go down, due to the finite supply of "perfect" materials and conditions.

You are dooming quality feta.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
No it isn't. A trademarked product name is a completely different thing from a non-trademarked name describing a type of food. "Chicago deep dish" isn't a term you can reserve only for certain brands of pizza.

Yes it is.
If people producing the genuine product get financial or image losses because of a subpar product usurping their name, they are suffering from the very same situation as a company who has its name tainted by a misleading use of its trademark by a third party.

The actors are different. The reasoning is the same: to stop a wrong use of the name that results in losses.

[vee4473]

I think the easiest thing is to just look at the label and see where it is made. This will keep you from blacklisting the food product(and therefore denying profits to "hometurf" producers because you won't buy it again) , in general if you don't like it...



for instance, if you buy a Feta cheese made in Denmark, you know that if you don't like the cheese, then just keep in mind that it wasn't made in Greece, so don't say that "Feta sucks!!!" and keep a mental note to keep searching for a better one or to get one from Greece before you decide to like or hate it.

Heck! maybe you'll end up liking the Danish version better!!

And if you don't know what country originated a food product, then no damage to reputation will be done anyway.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
You are dooming quality feta.

Actually, sheep milk isn't that hard to get, and its production isn't that hard to expand. Only if the whole surface of Greece is covered with sheep, we'll have a problem there. But I sure hope we'll call the Kiwis in reinforcments

[Drake Tungsten]

product usurping their name

There's the flaw in your reasoning right there. "Chicago deep dish" isn't anyone's name; it's a term used to describe a certain style of pizza and belongs to society at large. Same goes for "Parma ham" or "feta cheese." No one owns these names, so it is retarded to try to stop others from using them.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Spiffor




Actually, sheep milk isn't that hard to get, and its production isn't that hard to expand. Only if the whole surface of Greece is covered with sheep, we'll have a problem there. But I sure hope we'll call the Kiwis in reinforcments

In that case, anyplace with sheep and facilities can make real feta.

New Zealand and Scotland will be thrilled, I'm sure.

[Chemical Ollie]

Then anybody with malt and peat could make whiskey. But they can't.

[vee4473]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk


In that case, anyplace with sheep and facilities can make real feta.

New Zealand and Scotland will be thrilled, I'm sure.

This was my original point, that when you break it down, Feta is just a cheese made in a certain way from a certain type of milk. That's all.

If Lower Slobovia has sheeps and someone who knows the method used for making Feta, then, of course they can call it Feta cheese...unless Feta is a company's brand name.

Just like anyone with a deep pie dish and the fixings can make a pizza and call it chicago deep dish.

I understand that many are sure that this dirt is better than your dirt for growing grapes and my sheep get better grass or whatever they eat than yours, but most of this stuff is about a style of food.


i can't believe i'm still typing about this on saturday night...i'm a loser

[Napoleon I]

Drake -

There's the flaw in your reasoning right there. "Chicago deep dish" isn't anyone's name; it's a term used to describe a certain style of pizza and belongs to society at large. Same goes for "Parma ham" or "feta cheese." No one owns these names, so it is retarded to try to stop others from using them.

As I've mentioned before, if you check the dictionary you will find out that feta means Greek blah, blah, cheese. Parma is a name of a specific city, not a "style". If American producers add style to their name, no one will have a problem here.

[Ted Striker]

there are MUCH better things to argue over than the rights to FETA CHEESE

disgusting

The proper olive oil, on the other hand, is something worth fighting to the death over

Only buy olive oil made from Italian Eurocom olives

[Chemical Ollie]

I only but olive oil made from olives

[Drake Tungsten]

Parma is a name of a specific city

So is Chicago, jack-ass. Doesn't mean that "Chicago deep dish" isn't the name of a style of pizza, anymore than it means that "Parma ham" isn't a style of ham.

Only buy olive oil made from Italian Eurocom olives

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Then anybody with malt and peat could make whiskey. But they can't.

Depends on the whiskey, dosen't it?

Only The Glenlivet could make The Glenlivet -- only they would know how.

I don't know who other than Cutty Sark would want to make Cutty Sark.

I would only buy genuine Scotch whiskey, but to keep something made in exactly the Scotch style form being called Scotch is silly.

[Ted Striker]

hey hey hey

the only jack-ass around here is me

[The Mad Monk]

SPIFFOR!!!!

There's your example!

Bourbon and Tennesee whiskies are prevented from being called such if made outside the United states -- and the restriction may be tighter than that.

I think that's silly, too.