Talk:Vegeta (condiment)

pronunciation
How do you pronounce it? "Veh-Jee-Tah"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TAz69x (talk • contribs) 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * (A bit late, but this ain't on my watchlist). Veh-ghe-tah, to rhyme with "vendetta". I saw it in few Greek and Bosnian food markets in Minneapolis, so I guess it should be available in Canada as well. Duja 12:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

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Invention?
Should Wikipedia describe this food product as an "invention"? (See this edit) Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:53, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Flavored salt is a very old idea. More to the point, there is no evidence in the article for notability ?  DGG ( talk ) 00:20, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * No. The product was designed, not invented. Maproom (talk) 07:24, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * No That does not fit the common usage of the word "invention." The makers might have a patent, but that does not make an "invention." Damotclese (talk) 15:01, 10 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I see the unique concept here as more than "seasoned salt" but more like "umami salt" or "salt with MSG". They're quite common in central and eastern Europe and Vegeta is far from the only brand. Aromat (Knorr, Swiss, 1953) is a major one in the West, and is very popular in South Africa. In Western Europe it was more common to use a stock cube, usually beef or chicken extracts and less MSG as a specific ingredient. I'm happy to see the product type as an "invention", but this is broader than Vegeta and I've no idea if Vegeta was the first.
 * Seasoned salts have a distinct taste, often paprika, and often a strong colour. The Aromat and Vegeta types are more bland and are mostly about umami rather than a recognisable spice.
 * For notability, again I see the concept as a strong one, individual brands would have to demonstrate it for themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy Dingley (talk • contribs) 10:28, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Comment: My previous comment seems to have got lost as I am travelling and not on my own machine. Trying again. To call it an invention is silly, or we would have to call every new variation on a recipe an invention or design etc, at least if it is marketed under a name. That would be neither practical nor desirable. Call it a brand of condiment or something. The exact wording is not important as long as it is clear and simple. As for notability, let's not get things out of perspective; notability of a product is not the same as notability of a person or of a town. Any officially (and many an unofficially) named community could validly be included, even though there are thousands (millions?) around the planet. Joe Multitude from NY is not notable, even if his family loves him, unless there is more interesting material to mention than his early eruption of his lower left wisdom tooth. Nor would his garage rock group be notable if it never has performed. So, what makes for a sufficiently notable product? The fact that the purveyor would like a mention? Hardly. The fact that it is intrinsically interesting? Wellll... That is a hazardous concept at best and depends largely on the skills and commitments of the editor. The fact that mere mention of it creates horripilations? That would slim WP down to a page or so at a stroke, and lose all notability. How about the fact that the product is, or once was, well known and people in many regions might hear of it or see it mentioned in a film or book and wonder what the word meant, or what the object is for? Eating? Crop protection? Medicine? Now, where might he go to find out? Newspapers? G..gle? A dictionary? I reckon that is exactly the kind of notability for a product that has been around long enough to be commonly recognisable in some countries. It doesn't have to be a Hoover or a Xerox or even a Marmite. Someone just needs to know something without going on a long hunt. I don't know this product, but it seem to me to qualify. JonRichfield (talk) 07:40, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The sources do explicitly say "invented". Are there other sources, using another word such as "created" or "designed" ? &#8220;WarKosign&#8221; 09:14, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Technology
 * These categories are a nuisance. They're spam and sock magnets. Their sourcing is awful. In particular there's a problem for sources stating "This was invented " and editors then extending that to mean " was first made by ", which is totally unsourced. As conveys notability, but does not, that's also a problem for WP:N. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:28, 2 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment No, "invented" seems less optimal than "created" or "developed."  Coretheapple (talk) 16:21, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment "Developed" as used in the article now sounds better than "invented" to my ear. CapitalSasha ~ talk 17:31, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * No. : Use developed, for reasons given by others. Also, the link to "dehydrated vegetables" went to the article on dehydration in humans and I changed it to Food drying. Roches (talk) 19:24, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Not invented but copied from Italian company
https://www.vecernji.hr/premium/kako-je-stvorena-vegeta-posaljite-jos-nekoliko-tisuca-sve-smo-prodali-1368636 This is a Croatian source citing who brought vegeta to Podravka. Same story I have read in Podravka's brochures before 1990 and my dad, who used to work for Podravka, told me the same story
 * A onda je 1958. na Gažijev stol sletjela mala staklena bočica s nekom čudnom mješavinom neobična mirisa i još neobičnijeg okusa. Bila je to preteča Vegete. Proizvod su sa sajma u Italiji donijeli Ivan Živko i Ivo Đerek.
 * Translated: And then in 1958. a little glass jar got to the Pavle Gazi desk with some odd mixture, unusual in taste and in smell. This was a forerunner of Vegeta. The product has been brought form a expo in Italy by Ivan Živko i Ivo Đerek.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pixius (talk • contribs) 10:04, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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