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I am shocked to learn there is no dog in a hot dog. Calling my lawyer...

• inigyou 2mo ago
  In Germany if they applied the laws consistently it would actually be illegal to call it a hot dog if it wasn't dog. Supermarket had to rename "chilli beans" to "kidney beans in chilli sauce" because there's no bean species called a chilli bean
  • ben_w 2mo ago
    When rules like this lead to complaints about "veggie burgers", part of me wants to counter that hamburgers neither contain ham nor burgers (etymology: the food is named after the German city of Hamburg, origin of city name lost to time but literal translation of original name compatible with "Castle (Burg) belonging to person called Hamma").
    • inigyou 2mo ago
      I don't think "burger" is protected. Thankfully.
      • ben_w 2mo ago
        Thankfully, the ban was walked back. But it did get voted through in some stages: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5v75deewo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5v75deewo