The vote came up yesterday in the EU....over regulating frozen meat skewers....namely, doner kebabs.
Health folks are frustrated because to make a good kebab....you need to add phosphate to the meat product to keep water in.....while roasting away. Otherwise, it's a dried-up piece of meat which people won't eat.
The vote to stop phosphates from being added? It failed....by three votes.
Odds of coming up again? Well, not until after the next EU election (2019). I doubt if the Social Democrats and Greens will increase their membership in the EU to accomplish this.
How big of a deal this would have been? In general....there are several different reasons why doner kebabs are an attractive lunch item in Germany. You can pile on various vegetables, and it's fairly cheap (five Euro typically....or less). But if this were a dried-up piece of meat....it'd be dumped almost immediately and you would see thousands of stands around Germany in a panic.
The amazing thing to me is that all of these health folks have wasted a ton of time trying to dump on phosphates. If they'd spent the time to find an alternate ingredient which kept moisture within the meat while cooking.....it would have been easier for folks to accept some change.
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