Posted on 12/23/2020 7:27:18 AM PST by mylife
A German cookie company had been making and selling sawdust-enhanced treats for around 20 years, and the owner claimed they only used "microbiologically sound" sawdust.
A recent court ruling in Germany is great news if you'd prefer that your cookies weren't made with sawdust—and less great if you only eat cookies that have been made with sawdust.
The Verwaltungsgericht (VG) Karlsruhe, an administrative court in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe, Germany, flat-out told the owner of a mail-order cookie business that he needs to adjust his recipe and stop selling any baked goods containing sawdust.
According to Juris.de, the unnamed plaintiff had been producing and selling the sawdust-enhanced cookies for "around 20 years." He alleges that he wrote a letter to the city of Karlsruhe about his ingredient list in 2004, but they never got back to him. He quietly continued to mix sawdust into his cookie dough until 2017, when city inspectors ran a couple of tests on his cookies, and told him that he had to stop selling them immediately.
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A friend of my mother’s was a POW in WW2 held by the Germans. The Germans were having trouble feeding their citizens, much less prisoners, so all the allied prisoners were fed “sawdust enhanced” bread so to stretch the supply of grain. It was not the most digestible stuff in the world. I wonder if this baker got his idea from that?
Sawdust bad! (Coz yknow, animals in the wild don’t eat the bark off trees)
Aspartame GOOD! (Coz even though it’s derived from a neurotoxin we have to stop diabetes and it’s tested mostly safe... mostly...)
Parmesan cheese ingredients have cellulose in it if you buy the stuff that comes in a shaker.
But it’s organic sawdust. Does that mean that they also have to stop using lawn clippings too?
For truth in advertising, maybe things would be just fine if his ordering menu consists of:
Pine Molasses Crinkles
Hickory Cookie Shagbarks
Gingerbread Maple Tassies
My dad loves grated parmesan. I literally call it sawdust every time he shakes the green-lidded container. Such an expense for what should be waste. Trash!
The solution is to only use sawdust from gay trees.
Why not sawdust?
It does not have any nutritional value, but it does not seem to do any harm.
If they are openly listing this as an ingredient, it is on costumers to decide if they like it or not.
I don't know what the German government is worrying about. Cellulose aka wood pulp aka sawdust is a very common food additive. They add it to many foods to increase their roughage values, lower calories per serving, decrease "clumpiness" and for texture etc... This is stupid.
https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/a20457107/31-foods-that-contain-sawdust/
Are they edible, do they taste good, and is there any nutritional value? Those are the three things we care about in food, but desert items are not really even concerned with the last one.
I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with using sawdust. It’s a plant and may enhance texture and/or flavor. What’s the problem?
“Sawdust” might mean cellulose. It’s been added to baked goods the past 50 years.
Sawdust? Is that for extra fiber or something?
Does it cut down on toilet paper usage?
Yuck. Who wants cookies that can get infected by termites while sitting in the cookie jar?
or something?
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Cheap filler, imo.
Maybe it’d give a good, clean dump!
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