The French pave the way.

[minestrone]

It will all be haram soon anyway.

[minestrone]

Really? I can get any vegetable you can get in Tescos in my local Coop. You can even get parsnips now, which formerly were considered only fit for pigs. Can you get lambslettuce in Tescos nowadays?

Yes, and they're still going through it. It's not exactly related to the original post, which I see as an anti-vegan, anti-vegetarian message, but rather to do with maintaining the purity of the language. Hence instead of computer, they have l'ordinateur. For user, they have the execrable "l'utilisateur" etc. I quite like tölécharger for "to download" though. Germany has a similar language institute, but if you have a look through Duden, they surrendered to the supremecy of the English language quite a while ago. Downloadieren. Such is the zeitgeist.

I suppose up stream it probably is the same, or at least comes from the same mindset that language can be controlled at a state level. Maybe it's because English is such a hybrid language we lost caring on this stuff 950 years ago but i don't think the consumer needs to be protected from the usage of vegetarian haggis and I think(hope) the UK would laugh at such a statist intervention.

[NotAllThere]

Switzerland's worse!

Really? I can get any vegetable you can get in Tescos in my local Coop. You can even get parsnips now, which formerly were considered only fit for pigs. Can you get lambslettuce in Tescos nowadays?

Did the French not go through some 80s period where they tried to ban terms like "personal stereo"?

Yes, and they're still going through it. It's not exactly related to the original post, which I see as an anti-vegan, anti-vegetarian message, but rather to do with maintaining the purity of the language. Hence instead of computer, they have l'ordinateur. For user, they have the execrable "l'utilisateur" etc. I quite like tölécharger for "to download" though. Germany has a similar language institute, but if you have a look through Duden, they surrendered to the supremecy of the English language quite a while ago. Downloadieren. Such is the zeitgeist.

[BR14]

Did the French not go through some 80s period where they tried to ban terms like "personal stereo"?

The French are generally morons, on a perpetual downward spiral economically and socially, yet sausages get priority in the legislature.

WUB!

[minestrone]

Did the French not go through some 80s period where they tried to ban terms like "personal stereo"?

The French are generally morons, on a perpetual downward spiral economically and socially, yet sausages get priority in the legislature.

[BR14]

Having eaten in Germany, I'm not sure they even acknowledge the existence of any vegetable except cabbage.

Switzerland's worse!

[Mordac]

Germany did that a few months ago, must be a slow news day

Having eaten in Germany, I'm not sure they even acknowledge the existence of any vegetable except cabbage.

[minestrone]

If the state has to step in and legislate to protect morons from thinking a creme egg did no come out of a chicken then we need to consider some kind of genocide to give the human race a chance to survive another 100 years.

[darmstadt]

France to ban use of meat terms to describe vegetable-based products - BBC News

There will be some triggered snowflakes around tonight.

Germany did that a few months ago, must be a slow news day

[BR14]

Our French cousins have failed to take into consideration that a large proportion of gammons are also turnips.

Mmmm, - roast gammon and mashed neeps with lots of butter and black pepper

[original PM]

Our French cousins have failed to take into consideration that a large proportion of gammons are also turnips.

Hi snowflake

[northernladyuk]

France to ban use of meat terms to describe vegetable-based products - BBC News

There will be some triggered snowflakes around tonight.

Our French cousins have failed to take into consideration that a large proportion of gammons are also turnips.

[original PM]

France to ban use of meat terms to describe vegetable-based products - BBC News

There will be some triggered snowflakes around tonight.