/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9902973
>PDO is all about economic protectionism
The way you use that word it's like someone told you it was a bad word and you're just repeating it without understanding it, like it will ward off the evil ghosts. Free trade is good, but what you are basically arguing for is counterfeit products - buyer beware. This has nothing to do with free trade, it's just rationalizing mislabeling because some people want to cash in on someone else's good reputation.

>quality and stylistic standards for a product can be set without regard to location
Yes, of course they can. And they can also be set in relation to location, which is what they're doing. Why do you feel the need to use the name of a place you have no connection to, in order to sell your shitty fake food? Why can't it sell on its own merits?