Bob Muncie > wrote in message
...
> The Ranger wrote:
>> Michael Kuettner > wrote in message
>> ...
>> [snip]
>>> Nope. Most USAns might be. The rest of the world isn't.
>>> What you sell as "Italian herb-mix" an Italian wouldn't
>>> recognize, eg.
>>>
>> I'll have to let the Fins, Scots, Irish, English, Swedes,
>> Italians, French, and Germans know their culinary
>> educations are lacking with regard to American spices
>> and the mixes produced thus. They need to get with the program.
>>
>> Oh. Wait. They already understood spice blends because
>> they _are_ available internationally -- specifically in the EU...
>> Maybe not from McCormicks or Spice Islands but there
>> are blends available from local sources that don't require
>> seperate ingredients from the end user.
>>
> But that wasn't the point I was making... sure, they may have salt
> substitutes, spice blends based on cultural wants, and even McDonalds. But
> unless you state what is in it, the recipe is lacking.

Labeling practices abound throughout the world. Given the Japanese products
I buy from a grocer local to me, their labels list ingredients within each
product. Sometimes it's a hoot to read the translation but mostly it's as
dry as American labeling practices. I'm sure, the litigous-fearing EU
manufacturers are no-less diligent in their labeling practices but I'll ask
my European friends just to make sure.

The Ranger