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Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by xdennis on Thursday April 29, 2021 @03:34PM (#26985572)
The EU has protections these sort of brand dilutions. You can't call it cheese if it doesn't come from milk and you can't call it milk if it doesn't come from a teat.
Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by La1n on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:04PM (#26986004)
Which is weird to me, coconut milk has been "milk" for over 300 years.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coconut%20milk

Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by ThrowawayIP on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:11PM (#26989173)
Almond milk predates coconut milk by several hundred years even. I remember reading an account by a European man stranded in North America of almond milk but I couldn't find the source again.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almond%20milk https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/almond-milk-obsession-...

Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by kuratkull on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:17PM (#26986168)
Which is why it's basically the only exception. No other non-milks are allowed that. Good
Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by La1n on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:48PM (#26986508)
But if consumers understand that coconut milk doesn't come from a cow, surely they can understand soy milk doesn't.

Milk is already used for non animal milks as coconut shows, so I don't see this doing anything pro-consumer.

Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by kuratkull on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:39PM (#26987136)
A historical exception isn't an acceptable excuse to muddy the otherwise precisely defined definition further. But that's just my opinion. I'd even wager that coconut liquid may lose its privilege in the near future. Good