Cheese Law (CL)
by dutchclick / October 26th, 2005
A few years now we have an interesting discussion about in fact traditional and national food that is made in another country then you would expect.
It is the same discussion as we have with wine. A Bordeaux wine can only be called Bordeaux when it is from that French region.
Now the European Court of Justice judged that feta cheese has to be from Greece and can’t be made in Denmark or the UK, or at least not under that name.
I did never understand that the mozzarella and feta in the supermarket weren’t made in Bella Italia and Sunny Greece.
But they don’t taste that bad…
So now Gouda Cheese can only be from The Netherlands and nowhere else!
Based on this [dutch] article
Filed under: CrabArchive
October 26th, 2005 at 09:42
Note that this only holds true in the EU. In the USA feta and mozarella are simply product names, just like ‘MP3 player’ and ‘oak-wood garden chair’. They never linked these names to geographical regions, and probably never will.