Italy declares authentic pizza can only be made in Naples.

[Dinner]

Not sure what to make of this.

Naples celebrates pizza trademark
By Duncan Kennedy
BBC News, Rome

Naples has celebrated the first day of official recognition for the Italian city's most famous culinary creation: the pizza.

The European Union ruling marks the end of a battle that began a quarter of a century ago and aimed to protect Neapolitan pizzas from imitations.

The Traditional Speciality Guaranteed label on Naples pizza was approved last month and came into effect on Thursday.

The pizza makers' association head said the trademark was a great honour.

The EU's agriculture commissioner said Neapolitan pizza was now part of Europe's food heritage.

Slice of action

Th TSG label means that all pizzerias aspiring to supply the real thing are in future supposed to be vetted by a special commission that will check standards.

They include using only San Marzano tomatoes and fresh buffalo mozzarella cheese.

The Italian farmers' association says that half of Italy's 25,000 pizzerias currently use the wrong ingredients, such as East European cheese or Ukrainian flour.

Italy now tops the EU chart for products that are protected - it has 180, more than Spain or France.

Protected status enables producers to not only boast about their exclusivity, but also charge a premium.

And now pizza makers from Naples will get their slice of the action.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8499611.stm

[BlackCat]

Not sure what to make of this.

You could try to order a 48" original pizza

[Guynemer]

So what happens when Vesuvius blows up again?

[Riesstiu IV]

Italians invented the pizza, the zamboni, and flamboyant gayness.

[Dinner]

You could try to order a 48" original pizza

Size is also strictly regulated. EU.

[BlackCat]

Size is also strictly regulated. EU.

Well, it's probably metric, not the silly british inheritance you use

[EPW]

EU is awesome

[BlackCat]

EU is awesome

Well, they actually have dropped the cucumber standards

[Riesstiu IV]

Well, it's probably metric, not the silly british inheritance you use

The British conquered and ruled 1/4 of the world and set standards for industrialization during the 19th century. What has Denmark done in its history besides pillaging, raping, and stealing?

[EPW]

Well, they actually have dropped the cucumber standards

In what way?

[BlackCat]

The British conquered and ruled 1/4 of the world and set standards for industrialization during the 19th century. What has Denmark done in its history besides pillaging, raping, and stealing?

No offense, but that was what we did some 800 years before the brits - they probably got the urge to do that from us

Britain being an old viking colony etc.

[BlackCat]

In what way?

No more restrictions on the curvation of them.

[EPW]

No more restrictions on the curvation of them.

To appease the feminists?

[BlackCat]

To appease the feminists?

TBH, they are probably those most annoyed.

[Elok]

The British conquered and ruled 1/4 of the world and set standards for industrialization during the 19th century. What has Denmark done in its history besides pillaging, raping, and stealing?

As BC noted, conquering and ruling a quarter of the world is not terribly different from "pillaging, raping, and stealing" in practice. The Brits just did more of it due to a huge technological gap and about eight hundred to a thousand years of improvements in navigation.