Comment on Why do we not eat pig or cow?

whenigrowup356@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• zzzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To add to this, the rich (i.e., French-speaking) consumed the most butchered meat, by far. So, it came to be that butchered meat for sale would be labeled in French, while the live animals, which were tended by (English-speaking) peasents retained their English names.

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• monsterlynn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @whenigrowup356 Yup. And then you have the New World animals where we use the name of the animal for both the animal and the meat, like buffalo.

  @nydas

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  • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And then we have foods like Buffalo wings. English is fun.

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    • BLAMM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Buffalo wings are named for Buffalo, NY, where they were invented.

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      • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And what was the city named after?

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      • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I know.

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    • Butters@lemmywinks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought this was named after the city.

      Like a Chicago dog.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Buffalo in english is a weird word, because it’s an animal, a city and an action, which is why the phrase “Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo” is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever heard, but completely correct english.

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  • neuromancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • ymhr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are actually different (but similar) animals, from different continents.

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• UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My country had not been invaded by the Normans and we speak completely different language, yet we don’t call it pig or cow either.

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  • bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My country also has not been invaded by the Normans but we call pig a pig and cow a cow.

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    • UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Where are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?

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      • bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        South-Eastern EU. Not going any more particular than that :)

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  • whenigrowup356@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you don’t mind my asking, which language is yours?

    It’s an interesting question to ponder which different languages ended up with distinction words for the meat vs the living animal, and maybe what that says about the culture.

    The distinction is not a feature of French, from what I understand, and English ending up with this distinction seems to have been entirely accidental.

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    • UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s Czech. It also applies to Slovakian.

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• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Piggybacking off of this, “venison” comes from a Latin word meaning “to hunt” and was originally used as more of a catch-all term for game meats. You might have deer venison, boar venison, rabbit venison, etc. Over time it came to mostly be used to refer to deer

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