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Greggs forced to rename their Cornish pasties by the EU because they contain peas and carrots
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 08:18 EST, 28 December 2013 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 12/28/2013 7:37:04 AM PST by Olog-hai

Greggs the baker is being forced to change the name of its best-selling Cornish pasty under new EU laws because the product contains peas and carrots.

The new rules mean manufacturers must follow the traditional recipe of beef, potatoes, onions, swede and seasoning, if they wish to use the name. […]

Cornish pasties were awarded Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status in 2011 after a lengthy campaign by the Cornish Pasty Association to see their delicacy’s name protected.

Protected Geographical Indication status prevents anything that is made outside the designated region from using the traditional name. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cornishpasties; eussr; foodnazis; greggs; lawyers; nannystate; thoughtcrime; totalitarianism
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1 posted on 12/28/2013 7:37:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How about Jewish corn rye bread?


2 posted on 12/28/2013 7:39:12 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

potatoes, onions, swede and seasoning,

Where and how do they procure their supply of Swedes?


3 posted on 12/28/2013 7:40:00 AM PST by DManA
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To: Olog-hai

I’d like mine with extra Swede please.


4 posted on 12/28/2013 7:43:40 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Olog-hai

Just in case anyone is dying to know what a lower-case swede is - it’s a rutabaga.


5 posted on 12/28/2013 7:43:46 AM PST by DemforBush (Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream?)
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To: Olog-hai

As someone who hates peas, they ought to remove the peas.


6 posted on 12/28/2013 7:45:08 AM PST by Slyfox (We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: Steely Tom

Swedes are too tough. I prefer nice tender Norwegians.


7 posted on 12/28/2013 7:46:10 AM PST by DManA
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To: Olog-hai
Sounds like the Old World ideas which existed centuries ago--ideas which, if America keeps moving backward as it has under the current Administration, may begin to dictate such trivial matters for private endeavors today, as well.

In the early days of America's experiment in liberty, its Founders warned of oppressive taxation by those elected to represent the people. Under their "People's" Constitution, the people were left free, and the government was limited.

While Europe struggled with oppressive government intervention, the genius Founders of America recognized enduring truths about human nature, the human tendency to abuse power, and the possibilities of liberty for individuals. Richard Frothingham's 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States," Page 14, contained the following footnote item on the condition of citizens of France:

"Footnote 1. M. de Champagny (Dublin Review, April, 1868) says of France, 'We were and are unable to go from Paris to Neuilly; or dine more than twenty together; or have in our portmanteau three copies of the same tract; or lend a book to a friend: or put a patch of mortar on our own house, if it stands in the street; or kill a partridge; or plant a tree near the road-side; or take coal out of our own land: or teach three or four children to read, . .. without permission from the civil government.'"

Clearly the government of France at that 1868 date laid an oppressive regulatory and tax burden on citizens, robbing them of their Creator-endowed liberty and enjoyment thereof. Frothingham observed that such coercive power constituted "a noble form robbed of its lifegiving spirit."

Thomas Jefferson warned Americans:

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty -four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39

8 posted on 12/28/2013 7:47:10 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Olog-hai

I came here all excited to see edible “pasties”....


9 posted on 12/28/2013 7:48:15 AM PST by G Larry
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To: Olog-hai

I was at the Padstow festival in 1977 and lived on Pastys and fish and chips...Britain isn’t known for its cuisine but that stuff was good!


10 posted on 12/28/2013 7:49:20 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: DManA

Viking descendants...keep ‘em in a corral in the back....


11 posted on 12/28/2013 7:50:06 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Revolting cat!
Mmmm. Swedish pasties....


12 posted on 12/28/2013 7:51:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: G Larry

Hot pink pasties (not edible).

13 posted on 12/28/2013 7:52:17 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: Slyfox

Or you just don’t buy Gregg’s Cornish pasties by choice. You don’t have the EU tell them to remove the peas and carrots.


14 posted on 12/28/2013 7:52:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai; Revolting cat!

Name them after Michelle Obama, she squats in her garden among the carrots and peas.


15 posted on 12/28/2013 7:52:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: P.O.E.

No need for the EU to start regulating stuff from Israel now, as much as they want to.


16 posted on 12/28/2013 7:53:12 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It is often hard to tell what is in a Greggs pasty. They never taste as good as the description, but they are cheap and will keep you going until you get a real meal. This is just another reason the Scots will go to the polls to vote on independence this fall.


17 posted on 12/28/2013 7:54:05 AM PST by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: Olog-hai

It is often hard to tell what is in a Greggs pasty. They never taste as good as the description, but they are cheap and will keep you going until you get a real meal. This is just another reason the Scots will go to the polls to vote on independence this fall.


18 posted on 12/28/2013 7:54:26 AM PST by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: CreviceTool

The Scottish are voting on independence from the UK, not from the EU.


19 posted on 12/28/2013 7:55:20 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Pasties were one of the reasons to go up north here in Michigan. Unfortunately I’m not sure you can even get them any more under that simple name.


20 posted on 12/28/2013 7:57:29 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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