Comment on Why do we not eat pig or cow?

• master5o1@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hogget for in between.

  A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton.

  Oh…, maybe not.

  Generally, “hogget” and “sheep meat” are not used by consumers outside Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, Scotland, and Australia.

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  • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It gets even weirder. As a New Zealander, we would never say hogget for meat for the consumer (unless you went to a 'proper butcher), Farmers/Butchers will call 1-2 y/o sheep hoggets though.

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Might depend on where you're from. I have memories of my mother getting angry "this isn't lamb it's hogget" when she tasted it.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or a two-tooth 🙂

      I agree, I would call the meat of a two-tooth hogget, but if you wanted to buy it in the shop, well I’m not sure you could find it.

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  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m from Australia and I’ve never heard that one. I don’t eat lamb (or sheep. Or mutton. Or whatever.) though, so maybe I’m not the best judge.

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• kaput@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sheep in french is mouton. Pig is porc and cow is boeuf. Squid is calmar

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• ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a teacher of English…I agree.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    one of my english teachers in highschool was actually ESL, and from Croatia. She spoke like seven or eight languages, though. It was funny, because occasionally she’d just slip into whatever random language.

    She also liked to swear in french. it was truly hair raising. Incidentally, she also refused to use the ‘standard’ books reading. She’d probably get banned in half the country these days, but she genuinely was probably the best English teacher I’ve had. also the best french teacher ;)

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    • kspatlas@kbin.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As a bilingual, switching into other languages by accident often sounds insane, like you're just talking and then "Oh shit, that was the wrong language"

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah. I mean, I don’t think I ever made a huge deal over it. there were definitely jerks that did though. (and also trolled her to the point of swearing in other languages… I felt bad about that. Especially looking back because I don’t think school admin had her back with those kids.)

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a couple of languages I curse in so I don’t get caught, usually Khmer or Portuguese, though the latter is pretty widely spoken/understood.

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