cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50562993
EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term “veggie-burger” and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.
Like what is the problem? Hamburgers don’t have any ham in them.
a hamburger refers being in the style of, or a resident of hamburg Germany.
A burger should only be allowed to refer to the residents, or styles of, any legally defined Burg- ie a german walled town or fortress.
Hamburg should claim a DOC for ground beef, like champagne’s for sparkling wine.
Although that might be disingenuous, as a practice of making the minced beef steak into a sandwich wasnt developed until the dish made its way to america.
Fun fact, there is an ancient Roman recipe for hamburger (though they didn’t call it that). Apparently it was a common street food.
It would have been pretty weird if they did call it a hamburger, though.
Ich bin ein Hamburger!
Okay, fine then. Hamburg, NJ can claim it.