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2005-10-25 Europe
Only Greeks can make 'feta', EU court says
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Posted by Steve 2005-10-25 09:57|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The WTO better not accept this logic.
Posted by 3dc 2005-10-25 10:19||   2005-10-25 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Cheese it boys. It's the Dairy coppers.
Posted by ed 2005-10-25 10:24||   2005-10-25 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 With all due respect to Greeks and Greek food, WTF? Of all the pressing problems facing Europe they choose to tackle the titanic issue of cheese nomenclature? I can’t imagine that many Greeks were losing sleep knowing that some French or Spanish dairyman was producing Feta cheese and calling it Feta? Aris, are you now able to sleep soundly knowing the Feta Food Fight is over?
Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge  2005-10-25 10:30||   2005-10-25 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Shhh...Aris is out walking the Cheese Line even as we speak. And the Greek dairymen want him on that wall. They need him on that wall.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2005-10-25 10:33||   2005-10-25 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 With all the problems in the world, I am so glad they resolved this potential war maker. I feel safer.
/sarcasm
Posted by mmurray821 2005-10-25 10:39||   2005-10-25 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh the injustice! Will the feta cheese quagmire be a wedge issue for Turkey and Bulgary's anti-accession movements resulting in a crumbled EU or will it remain a solid salty mass unified by a common texture and taste?
Posted by FrancoisGump 2005-10-25 10:59||   2005-10-25 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 CyberSarge

If you are sold a computer who is supposed to have an Athlon 64 and you open it and you discover a 386 how are you going to react? Or that you are sold cat for hare?

Feta is supposed to be a cheese made with <>goat milk and marinated in olive oil. The danish and german things are made with cow milk and marinated in, yuck, seed oil. I can disagree with artificail restrictions telling that to have the name feta it is to be made in such zone and a maile father it is no longer feta because these have no object but lining the pockets of the producers and feeding snobs but I certainly don't find acceptable to be sold cow cheese for feta.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-10-25 11:13||   2005-10-25 11:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Marinated in olive oil? Por favor, the feta I used to buy in the Athina Supermarket in Ano Glyphada came out of a big barrel of brine... the counterman would hoist out a big dripping slab of it, and carve off a kilo or so, and wrap it in plastic-backed blue paper, but the brine always leaked through...
Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom  2005-10-25 11:17|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com]  2005-10-25 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 It's gonna happen. Good bye Cheddar et al. And f^@k the country you came in from.
Posted by Elmereque Gravirong5743 2005-10-25 11:24||   2005-10-25 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Let me chime into this too (since my mother's from Greece).

My uncle used to own a dairy story in the town of Karditsa. He used to make his own feta, but it got too expensive. In the end, he imported it all from Bulgaria, which makes as good, if not better feta than they have in Greece. From what he told me, many dairy stores import their feta too because it's too expensive to produce on their own.

By the way, all the Greek specialty stores in North America import their feta not from Greece, but from Bulgaria.
Posted by bonanzabucks 2005-10-25 11:39||   2005-10-25 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11 If the French pulled off their Champaign/sparkling white wine and the world bought it this was only a matter of time.

All this means is they'll change the spelling. It's all in the spin baby.

American Pheta is Phat.
Greek Feta, is Fat.
Posted by rjschwarz (no T!) 2005-10-25 11:49||   2005-10-25 11:49|| Front Page Top

#12 My mistake about the oil. You are right it is in brine. But the Danish or German feta I have seen came in oil. Probably because cheese floats in brine but not in oil and thus doesn't yellow in contact of air like cow cheese does (goat cheese remains white)
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-10-25 11:51||   2005-10-25 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 What is the implication for French fries?
Posted by Ronald McD 2005-10-25 12:13||   2005-10-25 12:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Are you talking about Freedom Fries, carrot top?
Posted by Angurong Gromoling6209 2005-10-25 12:15||   2005-10-25 12:15|| Front Page Top

#15 This is worse than patent law. This is giving some bastard a monopoly on something forever. In this case the bastard is a EU defined region. To top it off this is a trick they are pulling to stop others from selling food anywhere that has normal food type names. Fucking ripoff in progress.
Posted by 3dc 2005-10-25 12:15||   2005-10-25 12:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Aris, are you now able to sleep soundly knowing the Feta Food Fight is over?

Not in the cheese-manufacturing business, darlin'.

And nationalist mockery reasons aside, why do you think I agree with this verdict?

I tend to agree with JFM instead, that the restrictions placed on usage of the name should concern not the place of origin (such nation-based restrictions I consider to go against the very concept of the EU) but rather its nature: Feta can only be goat-cheese for example.
Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-10-25 12:59||   2005-10-25 12:59|| Front Page Top

#17 So call it "Greek Goat Cheese".

Who cares?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2005-10-25 13:23||   2005-10-25 13:23|| Front Page Top

#18 Who cares?

Once again, people in the cheese-manufacturing business probably care.

They are real people and do exist you know.
Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-10-25 13:28||   2005-10-25 13:28|| Front Page Top

#19 "What did he say?"
"The Greeks shall inherit the Earth?"
"The Greeks? Are you sure? I think he said the Meek."
"Oh, the meek, how nice, they never get nothing."

"Did he say blessed are the cheesemakers? What's so special about them?"
"I think he's blessing the entire dairy industry dear."

Little Life of Brian misquoted off the top of my head. Damn the movie was genious.
Posted by rjschwarz (no T!) 2005-10-25 13:46||   2005-10-25 13:46|| Front Page Top

#20 Youse can have your Feta, but keep yer filthy hands off my Velveeta!
Posted by USN, ret. 2005-10-25 15:20||   2005-10-25 15:20|| Front Page Top

#21 The EU can keep 'Feta' cheese, and we'll keep the 'Internet'.
Posted by DMFD 2005-10-25 17:41||   2005-10-25 17:41|| Front Page Top

#22 The Long Island Ice Tea is next.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-10-25 19:54||   2005-10-25 19:54|| Front Page Top

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