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   MarjorieR (marjolica@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 06:37:20 JST MarjorieR

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   • Peter Brown
   • Jules she/her

   @peterbrown @afewbugs seemingly some of these products now have so little chocolate in them they they can't be called chocolate any more. Needless to say the threshold for 'milk chocolate' in the UK is already ridiculously low.

   At least they haven't (yet) resorted to adding vomit flavour to them like American Hershey bars.

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79x7q325p3o

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     Peter Brown (peterbrown@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 06:37:21 JST Peter Brown

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     • Jules she/her

     @afewbugs there is already a relaxation around chocolate because most of the chocolate bars sold in the UK should be called sugar bars with chocolate flavour because the majority ingredient is sugar.
     When the UK joined the EU, they relaxed the regulations to allow UK chocolate bars to continue to be sold under that name

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     Jules she/her (afewbugs@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 06:37:22 JST Jules she/her

     Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

     "A ban would mean, for example, bean burgers sold in Europe having to be relabelled as “patties” or “discs”, while the Welsh breakfast staple Glamorgan sausages – made of cheese and leeks – would probably become Glamorgan “tubes”."

     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/13/food-firms-urge-europe-not-to-ban-calling-non-meat-products-sausages

     #Food #Vegan #Vegetarian #PlantBased #MeatIndustry