Back in 2023, we talked about a strange trademark dispute out of the UK concerning oat-based milk products. Specifically, Oatly, a large producer of oat milk, applied for a trademark in the UK for …
None of this is in my top 10,000 worries right now, and I’m lactose intolerant and drink almond milk and eat boca burgers, but let’s be factual, please. Milk, meat, and flesh have always referred to animal products.
None of this is in my top 10,000 worries right now
Then you should be more upset that one of the highest courts in the world is wasting time with it rather than whether or not they came to the right conclusion.
And “meat” just meant “food” a long time ago. Think about how you refer to cracking a nut to get to the “meat” or how the inside edible part of a fruit is referred to as “meat” or “flesh”.
None of this is in my top 10,000 worries right now, and I’m lactose intolerant and drink almond milk and eat boca burgers, but let’s be factual, please. Milk, meat, and flesh have always referred to animal products.
Nuh-uh, what about coconut milk?
Then you should be more upset that one of the highest courts in the world is wasting time with it rather than whether or not they came to the right conclusion.
Which they didn’t.
I get where you’re coming from but I think at least in English it’s been almost a thousand years of being flexible with the term “milk”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_milk
And “meat” just meant “food” a long time ago. Think about how you refer to cracking a nut to get to the “meat” or how the inside edible part of a fruit is referred to as “meat” or “flesh”.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweetmeat
And I get where you’re coming from. (: But I have never heard ‘sweetmeat’ as anything but a pickup line.
Your ignorance doesn’t change historical fact.
Then i’m sorry to say, that you are one of the uneducated ones.