How the hell do I know if these shredded soy pieces, extra salt, or pink broccoli smoky tempeh taste like bacon?

Easy. They don’t.

For the purposes of this part, ‘meat’ means edible parts of the animals referred to in points 1.2 to 1.8 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004, including blood.

In the end it’s a legal document and the terms are defined for the purpose of the regulation, not necessarily how the terms are used in daily life.

Well now blood sausage is not a sausage too despite being almost entirely animal product

The EU document specifically mentions that blood based products counts as meat, so blood sausage is fine.

This not only affects vegetarian food, but also salmon steak for example.

Where are you getting this from? In the document you linked they define meat as “edible parts of the animals” and I can’t find any wording in here that would exclude fish from being meat.

Yeah, think it’s quite silly that the EU is wasting time on this, but here we are.

In the end it’s more about labeling than language anyway. No one is banned from calling anything they want to a “burger”. You can’t just put it in the label when you want to sell it, and I think that is fair enough.

In Danish it’s definitely a shape, so… Which underlines the fact that this sort of legislation is pretty ridiculous in a multilingual society like the EU.

I’ll be up to each country to implement the rules so everyone can account for their own language.

Please also remember, as per Saussure, that for the language user only the present exists. Etynologies are curious facts at best and doesn’t necessarily mean anything for current usage.

I see where you’re coming from, but I think that is quite sad. That actually gives some credibility to the argument that the names of traditional foods should to be protected to some degree.

It’s not a shape, it’s always been a meat product. It comes from the Latin salsicus which means “seasoned with salt”.

Hallo, Steuerprüfer? Dieser Kommentar hier.

Bread is irrelevant. The patty makes the burger.

Evidence: You can order a McDonald burger without buns.

.mkv is just a container and can contain any encode. All my av1 encodes are .mkv files.

But the majority of my videos are in h264 for compatability, though I’ve been adding more av1 and h265 encodes lateley. But storage isn’t much of a concern for me.