EU Parliament votes to reserve 'burger' and 'sausage' for meat products

Imagine you have a favorite toy called a 'block'.

You know a block is a certain shape and you can build things with it.

Some people in Europe are trying to make a rule that only blocks made of wood can be called 'blocks'.

They want to call blocks made of plastic something else.

This is like a rule for food, where they want to say that only meat can be called a 'burger' or a 'sausage'.

However, the article explains that our brains don't work like a strict dictionary.

We learn what words mean by seeing lots of examples.

So, even if there's a rule, people might still call a veggie burger a burger because it looks and is used like one.

Our brains are flexible and will probably keep calling plant-based foods by names they are similar to, even if there's a new rule.