Court Rules That Baker Has to Stop Using Sawdust in His Cookies

food and wine ^ | 12/22/2020 | Jelisa Castrodale

[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.

[mylife]

20 years?

[rlmorel]

If we have a war or famine, he can go back to putting sawdust back in...:)

[headstamp 2]

A new meaning for the word, “fillers”.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Excellent roughage, as we used to call it.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Or, fiber?

[thescourged1]

Just baking like it’s 1945, lol.

[DoodleBob]

Does this mean it was gluten-free? That’s all the rage nowadays ya know.

[W.]

Now THAT’S how to cheapen up your product for increased profit!

[wny]

...much like Al Bundy adding charcoal ashes to his hamburgers...

[DainBramage]

They run a barkery?

[SamAdams76]

and the owner claimed they only used "microbiologically sound" sawdust.

Thank goodness for those German purity laws.

[mylife]

What will Krampus give the bad Bavarian kids now?

[CVS-20]

A good source of fiber, maybe?

[mylife]

:)

[Roadrunner383]

The micro cellulose you see in the list of ingredients for food is a type of wood pulp or fiber. The baker isn’t too far off what the big manufacturers are doing.

[Blue Jays]

"...sawdust cookies..."

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As long as it is clean and pure sawdust coupled with delicious cookies...I am fine with it! We all consume far worse.
Seems to me that would just be a low-calorie / no-calorie ingredient that provides fiber to scrub intestines clean.

[RckyRaCoCo]

“He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker...”

[alternatives?]

Can you still sell horse s___ cigarettes’?

[Red Badger]

Well, they’re full of fiber.........................

[rlmorel]

Heh, I didn’t think of that...perhaps we could sell it that way to the AntAms (Leftists and RINOS)...:)