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isn't internation trademark and/or copyright law grand?
eventually, the turks will move to prevent turkish salad from being placed on lebanese felafels in israeli shops in paris.
tunisia could file a simlar suit to prevent people not only from using harissa but also from saying the word without paying a royalty to the tunisian state.
soon other conflicts erupt: because the word cabbage is derived from the italian capocchia, i can imagine similar claims being made about the word "cabbage" as an unauthorized knock-off, a bootleg like lovi's or wringler's jeans---at least about the word cabbage---which would generate problems for the continued serving of cabbage shredded underneath turkish salad (which will be forbidden in any event) because shredded leaves may still sit in a bin, but there'll be no way to refer to them.
"i'll have that" wouldn't help, because that could mean anything.
conflict over who owns the term "pita" could degenerate into a new balkan war, as it was stolen from maybe greek, maybe hebrew, maybe serbo-croatian, maybe bulgarian.
all in all i see nothing but an ever-escalating donnybrook following from this.
i'd say the felafel sandwich is in real trouble.
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