It’s not that it’s unreasonable to think the word “patty” is ambiguous —it’s that it’s unreasonable to spend tax dollars on saving people from that ambiguity

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SECProto 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> it’s unreasonable to spend tax dollars on saving people from that ambiguity

I quite appreciate the taxpayer funded regulation of technical terms - I like being able to buy ice cream at the store and know if it's "ice cream" or "frozen dessert". Or "cream cheese" vs "cream cheese product". Or many other similar things.

The Jamaican patty and fish sauce ones are problematic, but also happened 25-40 years ago.

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hn773746483 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In Ontario, "Frozen Treat" and "Ice Cream", "Orange Juice" and "Orange Drink" are on shelves often right beside eachother with nearly identical packaging. I only noticed the latter when I saw one was significantly cheaper, at first thought it was pulp/no pulp.

	▲	SECProto 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yup, exactly - which is what makes the regulated descriptors (eg "juice") so important!

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jstanley 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of which terms are regulated and which ones aren't?

Don't you think it would cause more confusion if people expecting to buy a Jamaican beef patty instead have to buy a "Jamaican beef-inside-pastry product" ?

	▲	gruez 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of which terms are regulated and which ones aren't? Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of which professions are regulated and which aren't? If not, should we get rid of professional licensing? >Don't you think it would cause more confusion if people expecting to buy a Jamaican beef patty instead have to buy a "Jamaican beef-inside-pastry product" ? This feels like a strawman given that they settled on "Jamaican patty", which is reasonably brief and certainly less confusing than the original term of just "beef patty".