In terms of meat eating, can you answer this question?!
Why is cow called beef and pig called pork!. Yet chicken and lamb are just that!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
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I KNOW THE COW ANSWER! (It's also the sheep/mutton answer, which you did not ask) It's actually a linguistics thing!. Back when Englich people spoke middle English and England was under control of France, poor heardsman raised "kine" and "schep" for the blue bloods who ate the "boufe" and "moutton"!.
I can't help with the pork thing, sorry!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I can't help with the pork thing, sorry!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
don't know, maybe because you only eat castrated pigs, and bulls!. the other two are eaten before maturityWww@FoodAQ@Com
They are only called that when they are DEADWww@FoodAQ@Com
interesting!. dont know thoughWww@FoodAQ@Com
meat from cows and pigs has lots of different cuts which all taste different, chiken tastes the same all round as does lamb, hope this helps!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Chicken is called poultry and lamb is called mutton!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
well beef in french is boeuf
and in south american spanish pig is puerco!.
so maybe it has something to do with that!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
and in south american spanish pig is puerco!.
so maybe it has something to do with that!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Maybe because you eat so many different parts of the animal with beef (brisket, steaks, sirloin, topside, silverside etc!.) and pork (sausages, bacon, chops etc!.)
I'm only guessing though - it's a good questionWww@FoodAQ@Com
I'm only guessing though - it's a good questionWww@FoodAQ@Com
Sheep is mutton, pig can be hog, calf is veal, goat is goat unless it's kid, deer is venison, All just descriptive words picked up from various languagesWww@FoodAQ@Com
Just another foible of the English language!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
These terms come from the days of the Normans they are French words that happened to enter the English language, boeuf and porc!. Older lamb meat is called mutton which is also from French mouton!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It is because England was a French colony after the Normans invaded in 1066!. The lords were all French, and spoke French, and ate the "boeuf", "porc" and "mouton", while the oppressed natives who worked on the farms spoke proto-English, and looked after the animals while they were still alive!. But they did not get the chance to eat the meat!. So the live animal has an English name, and the meat - beef, pork and mutton - a French name!.
Eating lamb is a recent habit!.
"Poultry" comes from the French "poulet", or even the archaic French "pouletterie"!. Eating chicken, as opposed to cockerel, is a luxury they did not have at the time!. "Co-ck" comes from French "coq", and has replaced the original English word!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Eating lamb is a recent habit!.
"Poultry" comes from the French "poulet", or even the archaic French "pouletterie"!. Eating chicken, as opposed to cockerel, is a luxury they did not have at the time!. "Co-ck" comes from French "coq", and has replaced the original English word!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The origin of the words -
Old French boef, from Latin bos ‘ox’
Pork ORIGIN Latin porcus ‘pig’
Lamb ORIGIN Old English
Chicken ORIGIN Old EnglishWww@FoodAQ@Com
Old French boef, from Latin bos ‘ox’
Pork ORIGIN Latin porcus ‘pig’
Lamb ORIGIN Old English
Chicken ORIGIN Old EnglishWww@FoodAQ@Com
Cow is also veal (at least, calf is), and pig is bacon, ham, prosciutto, gammon, suckling pig and probably lots of other things I can't think of!. And sheep is lamb, but also mutton or hogget, depending on age!. Chicken is!.!.!. hmm!. Is a poussin (a small chicken) actually a different kind of bird, or just a very young one!? Maybe it's just that birds don't lend themselves to a variety of different preservation purposes, and that they've become so mass produced that we never refer anymore to an old broiler (an egg-layer that's past laying but too old to be anything other than stewed for tenderness) because 'meat' chickens are just that!.Www@FoodAQ@Com