I learn today the following;
Poles blast broad new EU vodka definition; 20 June 2007, 17:08 CET
(WARSAW) - Poles on Wednesday blasted a decision by EU
lawmakers to approve a definition of vodka that has
affronted traditionalists who claim it could let pale
imitations of the real thing invade the market.
“A defeat for our age-old tradition,” “The vodka
battle is lost,” “The vodka’s down the drain,” and
“Get ready for banana vodka” were among the banner
headlines in Poland’s leading newspapers following the
European Parliament’s vote Tuesday.
MEPs backed a proposed definition of vodka that says
the spirit must be made from grains or potatoes.
However, to the horror of traditionalists, vodka could
also be made from other ingredients such as sugar
beet, apples and raisins as long as bottles were
properly labelled, according to the text.
Polish lawmaker Ryszard Czarnecki slammed the move,
asking: “Would the French agree to call a drink made
from plums champagne, or the British to let a peach
spirit have the name whisky?”
The Polish media also slammed Agriculture Minister
Andrzej Lepper for his allegedly slapdash lobbying
within the EU in favour of traditional vodka.
Purists from the EU’s so-called vodka belt –
stretching in a loop around the Baltic Sea from
Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia through Finland,
Sweden and Denmark — had wanted a tight definition
that would only cover spirits made from grain,
potatoes or molasses.
The traditionalists, who account for 70 percent of
production and 65 percent of consumption in the
27-nation EU, argued that vodka should be protected by
a narrow definition just like whisky and rum.
However, other countries, keen to tap into the
12-billion-dollar (nine-billion-euro) global vodka
trade, wanted a looser definition including spirits
made from other ingredients.
Vodka can be made from any agricultural product that
ferments after it is distilled into alcohol and water
is added.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Consumer/1182348018.96
This is an example of a spiritually and socially-bankrupt régime, deciding in the infinite hubris of its narcissistic self-isolation from reality, to use the honest names of other people’s things to cloak its cast-offs in respectability. I replied;
The Poles just have to employ some marketing.
LET THE FRENCH RULING-CLASS BASTARD-RUINERS-of-other-countries’-native-products (like beef) (they don’t go about declassing champagne or cheeses, do they) do whatever they want. LET them describe any sort of disgusting toxic turpentine paint-stripper as VODKA, if it should please their Ruling Class. Let them. It does not matter a monkey’s f***. Ask Clinton or Prescott about these kinds of f***s, at an early election near you.
All that the (very clever) Poles have to do is rebrand their own proper Vodka as “REAL VODKA as traditionally made in the Polish-Speaking Regions of the EU” - it is IMPORTANT that it should be EXACTLY described as such. The implication is that it is also made from traditional ingredients, but this is not explicitly stated, only on the Statutory Ingredients list if there should be one required.
There is, furthermore, nothing whatsoever to stop Polish producers, or indeed the Polish gumment, on behalf of its producers and its nation, while a still-independent and Sovereign one exists, taking out patents for “Real Polish Vodka made in the EU Region of Polish-Speaking-Peoples”.
They ought to do this in all the major Anglosphere Nations (these are the only ones which matter out of the total of Western And Christianist Nations against which war will be later declared) and also REGISTERING IT as a TRADE MARK.
I will cost the entire legal-op at USD 9 million, about 25 million ZLOTY, less than some footballists paid for their houses and to have them done up all nice in Cheshire and not London. Bless them, the affable chaps.
The Poles can then sell the stuff outside the EU if they want, whether or not the EU decides to allow it to be sold inside its prison-compound itself. The more the Euro becomes toilet-paper, the more “they EuroNazis, those” will want to authorize sale, of anything that people will reasonably buy, elsewhere.
This is so that good old-fashioned low-tech stuff (like Real Vodka, rockets, fish-meal (stolen from Africa or Canada), wooden toy bears that rock on wooden journals, and plastic models of ethic Austrian mountain-dancing-chaps in Lederhosen) should be sold outside the EU, just like the USSR did, Cuba has to do, and North Korea will have to.
The problem the EU will find is China. China will be able to mass-produce “non-Vodka” for the planet, on Tuesday morning. This will also be stronger and also better screened for crap stuff in it for it will be commercial. it will not have been made in order to use up suplus wine and so therefore to placate failed-grape-producers.
This production will be at 1,000 times the volume of the EU and at 1/1000 of the price, due to China’s 560 coal-fired power stations now starting to come on stream. The EU being a totalitarian construct like China, is not about to berate China for anything, as it is still desperately trying to sell the dead-Gallileo nonsense to it, and needs the money.
The moral is, for the EU, as follows. Don’t steal your slaves’ brands and corrupt them to your supposed short-term-profit; they may end up corrupting you and busting you instead.
And yet, the French would never countenance in a million years, the use of the word “champagne” by, say, Russians, or Australians, to descibe a generalisd type of sparkling wine sold in robust high-pressure bottles with wired-on corks.
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