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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Parmesan, I buy it when they reduce it for quick sale.
I aint going bad, it’s been aging for 2 years!
I prefer Romano ,but the same holds true.
But no sawdust in the schitengruben! Schnitzengruben should be all meat!
LOL!
BTTT
LOL
Sigh. I have to remember I am not making fun of people who did it because they were starving, I am doing it because some kind of fruitcake of a baker thinks this is an interesting product to offer to people.
Which is a totally bizarre concept, but...there you have it!
I have read extensively on the POW experience, and recall that sawdust was used extensively by both the Nazis and the Japanese to “feed” their POW’s.
I expect at some point in the war, both the German and Japanese populations themselves were eating sawdust infused bread.
One of the things that is apparent to me in my extensive readings is that the power of starvation will make people eat nearly anything including other people.
I just cannot wrap my head around why some baker thought this is a good product for his customers.
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