EU bans vegetarian bacon but allows sausages and hamburgers

However, vegetarian sausages and hamburgers can still be called that, according to a spokesperson for Cyprus, which currently holds the EU presidency.

Anna Strolenberg, of the EU Parliament's Greens/EFA party group, is critical of the banning of several vegetarian meat names.

"Fortunately, the conservative language police have failed to ban 'veggie burger'. Unfortunately, a number of other words still end up on the blacklist. It's a shame, Europe should be supporting innovative entrepreneurs instead of putting new obstacles in their way," she writes in a statement.