File under: Germany in a soybean shell.

To Earn His Crown, Germany’s Tofu King Had to Overcome Sausage and the Slammer

To this day, the legal battle continues over whether dairy substitutes made with soy or oat can be called “milk” at all. Until a court battle in 1989, around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dairy lobby managed to keep soy milk and derivatives such as tofu strictly verboten.