Gypsy food is considered ti be an offensive term
To Germans, “gypsy sauce” is a sticky, tomato and pepper sauce, with or without onions. But for the Hannover branch of cultural organisation the Forum for Sinti and Roma, the name is offensive.
The term “Zigeuner”, or gypsy, is loaded with negative connotations, said lawyer Kerstin Rauls-Ndiaye, who works at the law firm which has sent a letter to five major food manufacturers asking them to change the name.
Although, she told the Süddeutsche Zeitung, it was “clear that the food companies do not want to discriminate anyone when they use the word in relation to a sauce or a schnitzel,” Rauls-Ndiaye explained that the group should insist it be changed.
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