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.
If it’s ground up and tubed into a thin, edible casing skin, it’s a sausage.
The German emperor’s last chancellor Bismarck, who was decently leaning on the conservative side, said famously that there are two things where you really don’t want to know how they are made: Politics and sausages.
“Die Gedanken einer Frau,
der Magen einer Sau
und der Inhalt einer Wurst,
bleiben ewig unerforscht.”
Translation:
The thoughts of a woman,
the stomach of a pig
and the content of a sausage, will be forever unexplored.