Re:A Swedish farmer using oats to make milk
by perilunar on Monday August 28, 2017 @05:43AM
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Actually the EU recently ruled that "Plant-based foods cannot be sold in the European Union using terms such as milk, butter and cheese". There are some exceptions though. See http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40274645
There's a similar push happening in Australia.
BTW, I think pizza is only called 'pizza pie' in the US? And a house boat is definitely a boat if it floats.
Re:A Swedish farmer using oats to make milk
by tom_mellior on Monday August 28, 2017 @07:42AM
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True about the EU ruling, but legal language is often different than more informal everyday language. Obviously the Court of Justice did not rule that you are forbidden from using the word "milk" when speaking to your friends about soy milk :-)
That's exactly why it's milk actually. Just like coconut milk, which has existed forever, milk of magnesia which has existed since 1875, and soy milk which has been widely consumed since the 1800s.
Oat milk is not milk. But it's milk. English has no problem with that. Pizza pie is not pie. Boot camp is not camp. A house boat is not a boat. We understand each other just fine. You add a word to another word and you get a third word that's unique from both of its parts.