In Germany, food manufacturer Knorr stops using the name gypsy sauce because it would be discriminatory.
Gypsy sauce from Knorr will soon be on the shelves there as Paprika sauce the Hungarian way. Parent company Unilever has confirmed this to German media.
“Because the term gypsy sauce can be interpreted negatively, we have decided to rename our Knorr sauce,” said the British-Dutch company.
The name gypsy sauce has been criticized in Germany for some time. Roma and Sinti, also known as gypsies, have already sounded the alarm in 2013.
“It is good that Knorr is responding to the complaints of many people,” Romani Rose of the Central Council of the German Sinti and Roma told Bild am Sonntag.
According to Rose, names such as gypsy sauce and gypsy schnitzel are still relatively harmless.
He is really concerned about the growing racism against Roma and Sinti (anti-ziganism) in Germany and Europe, where the term gypsies is used as an insult in football stadiums, for example, he says.