When I eat chicken, I call it chicken. Chicken wing; chicken drumsticks etc.

When I eat lamb, I call it lamb. Lamb shank; lamb cutlets.

So why do I not eat pig or cow? I eat pork or beef. Is there a reason for that?

  • @[email protected]
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    1610 months ago

    Interesting but doesn’t quite answer the question.

    Boeuf is the French word for beef, not cow. So the question is still why do we call it roast boeuf instead of roast vache?

    To be more confusing, cow is the term for the female of the species, in this case cattle, but female whales are also called cows.

    Does vache mean cow or does vache mean cattle?

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      2910 months ago

      The French eating it called it beef, the English raising it called it cow. The french didn’t call it roast cow because they were eating it as food, thus beef.

      The above poster explained your question already.

      • @badcommandorfilename
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        810 months ago

        Quand je mange du poulet, je l’appelle poulet. Aile de poulet; pilons de poulet etc.

        Quand je mange de l’agneau, je l’appelle agneau. Jarret d’agneau; côtelettes d’agneau.

        Alors pourquoi est-ce que je ne mange pas de cochon ou de vache ? Je mange du porc ou du boeuf.

        Quelle est la raison de ceci?

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          1010 months ago

          Chicken and lamb were more commonly seen and interacted with by the people that ate them, cows and pigs were not.

        • @Phoenixbouncing
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          510 months ago

          Parceque un porc ou un boeuf ça design aussi l’animal.