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The article conflates the problem of "the physical item is a bait-and-switch" with the problem of "same thing made the same way, just not in the geographical lo
by vacri 10y ago
The article conflates the problem of "the physical item is a bait-and-switch" with the problem of "same thing made the same way, just not in the geographical location with the name". If the only thing that differentiates two food items is the name of the location in which one was made, then that's just pure food wank.
- dmos62 10y agoWell it's not as simple as that, because if for example a given wine is produced a few kilometers from the Bordeaux region for example, it's probably similar in quality and you can consider yourself a wise consumer for finding it. However, if it's made in a very different place, the conditions might be different, and tradition will most likely be different, so protected designations of origin (PDOs) make sense in certain markets.
- spc476 10y agoNot always. An onion marketed as a Vidalia onion can only come from Vidalia, Georgia (and a few counties around it [1]). Vidalia onions are different because of the soil used to grow them; they are sweeter and milder than normal onions (and if you take seedling Vidalia onion plants elsewhere, you'll end up with regular onions). Now, does this make Vidalia onions a different food from onions? I don't know. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia_onion#Legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia_onion#Legislation