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calamari is just squid in Greek, maybe English people learned about cooking squid from Greece since there’s so many of them and the word for it just stuck

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ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Beef’s turn…

c. 1300, “an ox, bull, or cow,” also the flesh of one when killed, used as food, from Old French buef “ox; beef; ox hide” (11c., Modern French boeuf), from Latin bovem (nominative bos, genitive bovis) “ox, cow,” from PIE root *gwou- “ox, bull, cow.” The original plural in the animal sense was beeves

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- BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Then you get oddities like ox used for the offcuts/ofal (tail, cheeks, tongue, heart)
  
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  - Case@unilem.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Wait, I’ve heard of oxtail as a delicious southern dish, but never had the opportunity to try it.
    
    Is it really just a generic cow tail?
    
    English is stupid, and I say that as a native speaker.
    
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    BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    yep ;)
    
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

cooking squid

Monsters!

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- elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Oh, I don’t know, with 8 arms a squid cook could be VERY effective!
  
  Just don’t ask one to mix the salad…
  
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