My favorite hyper gate kept food tradition is the cheese in Italy and the guy on YouTube that teaches people how to make cheese but he doesn’t live in Italy let alone the correct regions so he got a cease and desist for a video he made by the Italian cheese police
G’day curd nerd! The cheese and desist thing was definitely a dick move by this Italian consortium, but iirc they later admitted that they had overstepped and ended in good terms with the Aussie youtuber.
I mean you can make your cheese the same way and tell your friends its parmegiano reggiano or whatever, you just can’t sell it under that name.
In the same vein I can make a Lego set and share it with my friends and we can call it Lego but the moment I try selling it then the Lego company comes knocking.
It’s not gate keeping, it’s just trademark but for food. People may disagree with it but I personally think it’s a great way of keeping those food traditions alive and ensuring you get what you paid for. Also pretty sure that if you don’t live in the EU you can just call your cheese the same and nothing will happen to you.
My favorite hyper gate kept food tradition is the cheese in Italy and the guy on YouTube that teaches people how to make cheese but he doesn’t live in Italy let alone the correct regions so he got a cease and desist for a video he made by the Italian cheese police
If it doesn’t come from a specific region in Italy, it’s just sparkling mold.
G’day curd nerd! The cheese and desist thing was definitely a dick move by this Italian consortium, but iirc they later admitted that they had overstepped and ended in good terms with the Aussie youtuber.
I mean you can make your cheese the same way and tell your friends its parmegiano reggiano or whatever, you just can’t sell it under that name.
In the same vein I can make a Lego set and share it with my friends and we can call it Lego but the moment I try selling it then the Lego company comes knocking.
It’s not gate keeping, it’s just trademark but for food. People may disagree with it but I personally think it’s a great way of keeping those food traditions alive and ensuring you get what you paid for. Also pretty sure that if you don’t live in the EU you can just call your cheese the same and nothing will happen to you.
Link?
https://youtu.be/M_AzMLhPF1Q
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