• Omega@discuss.online
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      8 hours ago

      You can adopt different terms, or use foreign terms. Very common, I think turkey has a lot of vegan meatball alternatives all labelled ‘kofte’

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    Product labels in general need to be more clear. I’m mildly allergic to soy, and half my grocery shopping is squinting at ingredient labels. I can’t even get the cheap peanut butter any more, because you have to pay twice as much if you want just peanuts in it.

    My doctor wants me to avoid legumes in general, but *laughs in poverty*

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    Absolutely OK. If “something something X” is the name of your product, it needs to contain X to a certain degree. If there was no strawberry in strawberry jam, you would complain. If there was no cinnamon in a cinnamon bun, this would be wrong, too.

    The term “Vegan Chicken Chips” for a product that does not contain chicken is simply like “Apple Sauce” without apples.

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      19 hours ago

      Rocky mountain oysters contain no oysters. Head cheese is not cheese. Hen of the woods is not a bird. Welsh rabbit includes 0% rabbit. Ants on a log, Cowboy caviar, Bear claws… refried beans are… gasp… only fried once.

      Its all made up and the points don’t matter, until you start threatening profits.

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      the problem is that they’re banning words like “steak” which isn’t about ingredients

      The word steak was written steke in Middle English, and comes from the mid-15th century Scandinavian word steik, related to the Old Norse steikja ‘to roast on a stake’, and so is related to the word stick or stake.

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        The point here is that nobody really cares for middle English name origins. Ask 100 random people what “steak” is, and I’d be surprized if you did not get at least 99 answers that it’s meat.

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      22 hours ago

      I keep saying the meat alternative producers need to come together and make new words and all use the same ones

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        Part of the problem is with discoverability. If you make a completely new word, people have no idea what your product is like, so they’re unlikely to try it.

        I think the best solution for them is to use words similar to the animal product, but obviously different, like “chick’n” or “chickenless” for example. I prefer the latter because it’s more explicit about not being chicken.

        But yeah, getting some standardization on it would be a big step in the right direction.

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        21 hours ago

        I had vegan bacon at one point, and it was NOT bacon, not even close. But it WAS good, it just needs an entirely different name.

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            I very much agree, but having these “substitutes” was something that facilitated cutting out meat for me, as all cooking I used to know revolved around meat as the main ingredient. In that sense these product serve a usefulness in reducing the threshold to move away from meat in the first place.

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    “Chicken” and “Pork”? Sure, understandable… I guess. If they were going after, “Milk” that would be a whole other thing.