In Europe Gruyère is protected because customers *expect* it to come from a specific region. This is good. But the same expectation hasn’t existed in the US for ages (probably ever).
Scandaleux ! Que fait le gouvernement ?
We know, it happened last month and plenty of pearls were clutched here, honestly and sarcastically, in this sub already.
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Well, it’s already pretty generic in Switzerland…
I mean the French have been calling Emmenthal Gruyère for decades.
Correction: it had *already* been a generic name for ages in the US. A court now rejected a challenge to that (completely legitimate) status quo.
This is really nothing noteworthy, it happens all the time, also in Switzerland. [Emmentaler](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmentaler#Geschichte) isn’t a protected designation origin either. Nor is [Appenzeller](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzeller_%28K%C3%A4se%29#Vermarktung).
In Europe Gruyère is protected because customers *expect* it to come from a specific region. This is good. But the same expectation hasn’t existed in the US for ages (probably ever).
Scandaleux ! Que fait le gouvernement ?
We know, it happened last month and plenty of pearls were clutched here, honestly and sarcastically, in this sub already.