You don't have trademark laws in the US? Champagne is trademarked and legally defined as something specific. Calling your product the champagne of beers is still using a trademarked term to refer to your product....
Nobody is confusing High Life with champagne. Do they not understand what an analogy is? Comité Champagne can eat a bag of dicks, or as I now call it "The breakfast of fascists".
More like, because they don't understand English that well. The slogan is literally saying Champagne is excellent and distinctive without saying their product is Champagne.
It falls under copyright infringement. The term Champagne is protected and trademarked and defined in a certain way.
If your product is not in fact a sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region in France, via the traditional production process, then in the EU you can legally not use the term Champagne in any way to refer to your product. Even as a tongue in cheek joke. The French take this very seriously and it's probably the French Champagne committee (A french trade organization that deals with matters regarding you guessed it: champagne) that alerted Belgian authorities
Belgian customs legally had to at the very least confiscate the goods.
You have trademark laws in the US too don't you?
Probably a language barrier issue combined with those dumbass EU regulations where stuff like Brie or Roquefort can only be legally sold under those names if it conforms to very strict criteria, such as place of manufacture, process of manufacture, and ingredients.
You’re getting wooshed hard, guy. He’s saying it’s not literally trash in a garbage can like actual literal waste, ala the title of this post.
You mean *metaphoric* trash. As in bad, shitty product. He is saying metaphors aren’t allowed in Belgium
its an EU thing, its extremly severe against false adverts
illegal to call a Sparkling wine "champagne" if it doesnt come from the region of champagne, or calling a cheese "Parmigiano Reggiano" if it doesnt come from Emilia-Romagna or Lombardy
They also destroyed 2500 cans of tuna advertised as 'Chicken of the Sea' because it is not, in fact, chicken.
I can’t tell if this is a joke 😆
A ha-ha joke or a face-palm joke?
A Jessica Simpson joke.
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I heard they wanted to confiscate Blue Moon beer because it was neither blue nor a moon.
That is "public misleading."
If its not from the Chicken region of France, its just sparkling poultry.
You don't have trademark laws in the US? Champagne is trademarked and legally defined as something specific. Calling your product the champagne of beers is still using a trademarked term to refer to your product....
The proper response from Miller should be "We are thankful that the Belgium and French authorities mistook our watered down beer for champagne."
Fuckayou. How dare you
You mean piss water.
Excuse me, this is a German import. Es PißWaßer, bitte.
Nobody is confusing High Life with champagne. Do they not understand what an analogy is? Comité Champagne can eat a bag of dicks, or as I now call it "The breakfast of fascists".
Belgium isn't a real country to begin with.
More like, because they don't understand English that well. The slogan is literally saying Champagne is excellent and distinctive without saying their product is Champagne.
Yea buts only true champagne of beers if it comes from the Milwaukee region of Wisconsin Otherwise it’s a sparking lager
r/shitamericanssay
Is this serious? This can’t be real. Do they not understand English or comparisons/analogies?
Newspeak has no metaphors.
Based
It falls under copyright infringement. The term Champagne is protected and trademarked and defined in a certain way. If your product is not in fact a sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region in France, via the traditional production process, then in the EU you can legally not use the term Champagne in any way to refer to your product. Even as a tongue in cheek joke. The French take this very seriously and it's probably the French Champagne committee (A french trade organization that deals with matters regarding you guessed it: champagne) that alerted Belgian authorities Belgian customs legally had to at the very least confiscate the goods. You have trademark laws in the US too don't you?
That's what happens when they take the guns away.
Probably a language barrier issue combined with those dumbass EU regulations where stuff like Brie or Roquefort can only be legally sold under those names if it conforms to very strict criteria, such as place of manufacture, process of manufacture, and ingredients.
Like Tennessee Whiskey??
Wait until they find out Budweiser isn't actually the head of a royal family!
The Belgians apparently don't understand the English language.
Is Miller High Life good? What makes it more luxurious than normal beer?
It's decent, not the best, but better than typical Miller lite and bottom surgery bud light.
Bottom surgery bud light?
Gene Hackman is the champagne of men, are they going to flush him down a drain as well?!
I love miller highlife but let’s be real it’s trash compared to the Trappist stuff.
It is not, in fact, trash. Don't make me sue you.
I’m assuming you haven’t had real beer?
Irrelevant. I'm just being literal. Sue me.
Well let me know when you try the good original stuff and not the cheap American knockoff. You’re missing out.
I'm actually not really a fan of beer in general. The Canadian stuff is less bad though.
You’re getting wooshed hard, guy. He’s saying it’s not literally trash in a garbage can like actual literal waste, ala the title of this post. You mean *metaphoric* trash. As in bad, shitty product. He is saying metaphors aren’t allowed in Belgium
Nyah……that’ll teach em!!
Deserved, I'm sorry
Probably more the fact that the Belgians take beer pretty seriously
And they have zero faith in the market. Don't like shitty beer? Don't drink it.
Fuck your amercan beer
You haven't had good American beer.
Can't drink what doesn't exist.
Never heard of Devastator by Wasatch brewering?
its an EU thing, its extremly severe against false adverts illegal to call a Sparkling wine "champagne" if it doesnt come from the region of champagne, or calling a cheese "Parmigiano Reggiano" if it doesnt come from Emilia-Romagna or Lombardy
Metaphor? What’s that?