More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.
More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.
I’m a happy meat eater and considering the number of different kinds of sausage with all different ingredients in different proportions and different textures and different herbs and spices and different skins and different sizes and different ways to prepare them I think this is absolutely ridiculous.
If tiny dried sausages with lamb and herbs in natural skin are just as much sausage as spiced up raw mince in a plastic skin are just as much sausage as precooked hot dogs with pork and salt but mostly potato filler in mysterious edible non natural skin, then a sausage with vegetable mash for filling is definitely a sausage as well.
Do hot dogs legally qualify as sausages in the EU?
I don’t know. We all have different words for “sausage” and different cultural attachments to them.
In Swedish, the word for sausage, “korv” is widely used (albeit informally) as a word describing the shape, and not necssesarily the product.
Hot dogs are in the section of sausages at least, but the meat % is almost always on the front of the packages. Which for “hot dogs” is ~34%. I don’t know who buys them. Personally I go for the 70+
Yeah sausage is at least in my eyes a form of food. Kinda like a loaf of bread can be different types of bread so can a sausage be different meat (or not even meat at all).