Be careful if you dare to call your sausage "Lincolnshi

[Richierich]

Not sure if this is a good thing or not......surely you can't give every product with a place name protected status.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-11006884

[RodinBangkok]

Well I for one think it probably is, I am so sick of seeing the bastardization of regional food product names, and their lack of any connection whatsoever with the original product. Some the come to mind:

Turkey Pastrami
chicken pastrami
.....you fill in the word pastrami

Kobe beef, if it is not from Kobe Japan, it is not Kobe beef!

Hawaiian pizza margarita....???? need I say more.

Sri Racha hot sauce.....made in California, and does not even taste like the product from Sri Racha.

Another one that I think has been totally lost is a true bolognese sauce, most marinara's with some meat in them today are called bolognese, when in fact a true bolognese is a meat based sauce with very little if no tomatoes or tom products.

Parma chicken??? or put about any word behind Parma.

Cheddar cheese...don't get me started!

Or how about....well you all probably can name a whole lot more.

Much like the German beer purity laws, or other countries that have specifically defined what makes up a regional product, I think its a good idea, if its done properly and agreed to by the folks from that region.

[Snags]

Kobe beef, if it is not from Kobe Japan, it is not Kobe beef!

Hawaiian pizza margarita....???? need I say more.

Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Australia should have been called Queensland Pizza(in Italy they say it was invented by Germans??)
The US claims it invented them???

Kobe Beef is known as Wagyu in Australia

Australian Wagyū Association is the largest Breed Association outside Japan. Both Fullblood and Wagyū cross cattle are farmed in Australia for domestic and overseas markets, including Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, the U.K, France, Germany, Denmark and the U.S.A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagy%C5%AB

Australia now calls its Champagnes Sparkling Wines or Methode Champenoise

They fought and won the right to keep calling Grange Hermitage by its name because it had a long history under that name

Its the major reason Australian wine producers mark there wines with grape varietals
They now have to invent names for Australian Ports(Tawny or Vintage Fortified) Sherry(which is an Anglicised version of Jerez)

Cheese industry is another one our Cheddars are known as Tasty
The blues can have exotic names like Roaring 40s ,but its difficult when it comes to Feta,Camembert and Parmessan.

[Flatbow]

This needs to get a lot of approvals before it happens, and no guarantee that it will