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It's getting ridiculous here in Sweden. Actual product names (they tend to use English, sometimes with intentional misspellings to get around regulations, I assume):

"Vegan Grated Ch<heart emoji><heart emoji>se"

(https://assets.icanet.se/t_product_large_2x_v1,f_auto/731024...)

"Roast Beaf - Plant-based cold cut"

(https://assets.icanet.se/t_product_large_2x_v1,f_auto/735003...)

"Parveggio - grated"

(https://assets.icanet.se/t_product_large_2x_v1,f_auto/529287...)

"Greek style"

(https://assets.icanet.se/t_product_large_2x_v1,f_auto/529287...)

If I were vegan, I'd feel offended.

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Was thinking this is going to lead to some cringey product names. "veak" and "vausage" for the uncreative and it goes downhill from there. Our family calls it "feat" for "fake meat"

I'm trademarking 5teak, 5ausage, Chee5e and Mi7k.

Sounds like what's on the menu at The Black Sun in Snow Crash

Mi1k?

M337k

Just call it Milf

You'll get free viral marketing ...

M!lk..

I'd go with "malk".

I call bids on "Klim".

Klim™

I guess Keats™ is taken, and I can't trademark Team™, but I'll try.

Reminds me of one of my favorite King of the Hill episodes:

"Not dogs" are hot dogs made of tofu

Of course there is always "faux fu" for the tofu intolerant.

I had no idea KoTH made that joke, too. I was raised by vegetarians and that's always what we called the meatless hot dogs. They were...not good.

"Not dogs" is an actual product from 1982.

You see some of these in the USA, too, for example, "Veggie Chik'n": https://www.morningstarfarms.com/en_US/products/meal-starter...

Or wyngz to get around the fact that boneless wings are typically made from breast meat.

I'm vegetarian, and I'm offended. Mostly by that god awful Alegria-like prictogram on the first product packaging.

It's bad enough we have to see these hose-armed and hose-legged people pictograms from every tech company, but now they're on my food as well?

>they tend to use English, sometimes with intentional misspellings to get around regulations

As usual, Simpsons did it: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfM7dvFto0>

Y'all got any of those chiggin nuggets?

Could I tempt you with some Chickened Out Chunks?

https://www.citygross.se/images/products/08710522760321_D1N1...

Can I get some meet to go with my beaf? Maybe a snausage? Or perhaps a chik'n nugget

Is it not possible to put heart emojis in HN comments?

Emojis get stripped when you post the comment

<3 <3 <3 ???

Those are emoticons.

So in French it could be:

Steak végétal => Steakal or Stékal

Saucisse végétale => Saucissal or Saucissal

Done

The vegan community in France already uses names like "Faucisse" and "Fauxmage" based on "Faux + Saucisse" and "Faux + Fromage". I believe there's also "Vromage" (Vegan + Fromage).

I like these as well!

Businesses probably don't like including the word "faux" in their product names.

Then they shouldn’t be in the faux product business.

They should be fined for misleading advertising.

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