In the run up to Easter Brexiter fury was aimed at the requirement for Marmalade to be renamed if we (re)align UK food labelling regulations with the EU; this would be for the addition of the word 'citrus' in a blow to UK sovereignty.

What, the hysteria ignored was that most brands already do this: 'Orange Marmalade' or 'Seville Orange Marmalade' & that is fine, as the EU allowed (and continues to allow) the word 'citrus' to be replaced by the actual fruit!

#brexit #politics
h/t Observer

@ChrisMayLA6 the name marmalade originates from the arrival of a cargo of oranges arriving in Dundee which had frankly passed their best and the ship owner despairing of offloading his oranges showed the buyer how to make orange jam whereupon the buyer inquired what it was called.
He responded “mermelada” which of course is the Spanish word for jam.
And that is why we use the word jam unless it’s made from oranges when we call it marmalade.
Sometimes it is even called Dundee marmalade.
@ChrisMayLA6 by extension Dundee cake is made with orange peel.
The area surrounding Dundee produces huge amounts of raspberries and strawberries and Dundee has always been famous for jam production so adding marmalade was a small incremental step.

@peterbrown

I was about to say; they can make Dundee into marmalade & then I thought better of it (oh.hold on, no I didn't)

@ChrisMayLA6 maybe I’m missing the joke but it doesn’t sound very appetising. And I don’t think the inventors of Grand Theft Auto would be particularly impressed at being made into marmalade.
However, at least it wouldn’t be full of stringy indigestible strands of jute like it would have been in the early 20th century.