More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.
More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.
Do hot dogs legally qualify as sausages in the EU?
I don’t know. We all have different words for “sausage” and different cultural attachments to them.
In Swedish, the word for sausage, “korv” is widely used (albeit informally) as a word describing the shape, and not necssesarily the product.
Hot dogs are in the section of sausages at least, but the meat % is almost always on the front of the packages. Which for “hot dogs” is ~34%. I don’t know who buys them. Personally I go for the 70+