Seriously - Lebanon and Israel are fighting over hummus. Lebanon claims that Israel is violating a food copyright by marketing provisions such as hummus and falafel as Israeli.
Money quote: Lebanon's case will likely rely on "the feta precedent," said Abboud. Six years ago, Greece was able to win a monopoly on the production of feta cheese from the European Parliament by proving that the cheese and had been produced in Greece under that name for several millennia.
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