You Say Rum, I Say Tuzemak.(on European Union rules)(Brief Article)

Across Europe, countries young and old are finding Brussels bureaucracy a little hard to swallow. Rules and regulations governing everything from hygiene to sugar levels to labeling threaten to erode age-old traditions. A taste of the food fights to come:

Feta: Greece finally won exclusive rights to the name "feta." But a group of countries, including France, are kicking up a stink, arguing that the name is an international label. Like champagne?

Rum: Bowing to EU insistence that real rum is made from sugar cane and has a light color, the Czechs are dropping the term from their (gasp) darkish, potato-based "Tuzemsky rum" and renaming it "Tuzemak."

Goulash: Czech pub owners may stop dishing out goulash, as tougher EU hygiene standards require food to be consumed within three hours of preparation. Pub owners complain they can't afford to trash that much meat. Also some dishes, like the pickled sausage utopenci, only improve with time--and are supposed to smell bad.

Wine: Slovakia and Hungary both have wine-producing regions ...