Melton Mowbray pork pies are one of 84 products that have received special protection
Cumberland Sausage (left) and Jersey Royal potatoes are also on the list of protected UK products
The UK proudly boasts a total of 84 products that have received protected status under the EU scheme
From Melton Mowbray pork pies to Stilton cheese, these foods have been protected from imitation throughout Europe.
Here are some of the best-known:
Welsh lamb
Welsh lamb is derived from the sheep breeds of Wales, predominately the Welsh Mountain, Welsh Mules, Welsh Halfbreds, Beulah, Welsh Hill Speckled Face, Lleyn Sheep, Llanwennog, and Radnor.
Melton Mowbray pork pie
Melton Mowbray Pork Pies are clearly distinct from other pork pies in their packaging, design and marketing at point of sale. They carry a price premium compared to other pork pies on the market place of 10-15 percent because they have a specific reputation that sets them apart as different and worth paying for.
Traditional Cumberland sausage
Traditional Cumberland Sausage is a spiral coil shaped seasoned pork sausage. Its most distinctive feature is that, unlike other sausages, it is not linked but long and coiled. One recipe can be dated back to the 1850s. It has been recorded that in the mid 19th century the sausages were often hung up with hams and bacons, were very highly spiced and were semi-dried for preservation.
Stilton blue cheese
Blue Stilton is a blue moulded cheese made in cylindrical form from full cream pasteurised cows milk (which can be standardised according to season) produced by dairy herds from the three counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire (in times of shortage milk may also be sourced from the surrounding counties of, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), with no applied pressure and forming its own crust or coat. The Blue Stilton
Jersey Royal potatoes
Each grower carefully controls his own stock of Jersey Royals, growing his own seed on his own farm. Selection is made within the seed fields to select plants yielding even size tubers and tubers of a suitable size (over large tubers cannot be shipped from the island). There is no source of Jersey Royals outside the Island to which growers can resort. The Island’s growers are not permitted to export any other variety of potato and therefore they are very well aware of the need to maintain pure stocks of Jersey Royal Potatoes.