Why do animals that we eat get a special name?

I call my meat what it is, most of the time. On a nice, Spring evening, there’s nothing better than grilling some cow ass and chicken titty, lol. I don’t think I ever use the word “poultry” or “fowl”, come to think of it. I call it chicken or turkey or quail or whatever. I also say “deer meat” instead of “venison” most of the time. And I never eat baby cows; that’s going too far, for me.

Like @WillWorkForChocolate I call it what it is…
old dead bird, dead cow, dead hawg.

Don’t usually eat baby animals unless there is an accident on the farm and one has to be put down. Then it is a matter of waste not want not.

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How old should a cow be before you can comfortably eat it.

So it won’t sound like people are actually eating real animals. Those are euphemistic terms to make it sound like it’s no different than eating pasta or bread.

It should be old enough to be grass fed to at least 1100–1250 lbs.

I never eat anything that’s not old enough to vote. Except eggs. Without developed limbs they have a little trouble marking the ballot.

My sister had a chicken named “Dinner”.Is that so wrong?

I guess you would have to research the history of the evolution of the names used to describe the individual meat and bird ‘products.’
I had a hen named” Fajita”. I never ate her though only her eggs. lol

There used to be a restaurant in Wichita, a burger joint, called “The Dead Cow.”....That always mystified me! I mean, do you want business or not?

It’s medieval classism. When the Normans conquered England, they made Saxons do the work. The words for meat we use come from French, you’ll notice, and that’s because they were used by the French speaking Normans. The Saxons, that is, the ones actually interacting with animals, had their words remain for the animals themselves.

I get a bit more personal….we’re having Bessie, Wilbur, Foghorn, Bugs and even the veggies get names..Archibald Asparagus, Mr. Lunt, Madame Blueberry, Pa Grape, Mr. Nezzer, Qwerty

You can’t eat a food after you’ve named it, @Cruiser! Don’t you know? I had a cat who had a litter of kittens once. One of my three kids said it was a rule that you can’t give a kitten away if you’ve named it. All the kittens instantly got three names each!

Maybe these names sound better to the public. Or it was made like this so kids won’t ask questions or to many of them.

@Dutchess_III Wilbur would argue that point with you….if he could!

Maybe its just more politcally correct. There are different types of bolvine but they all produce beef. Same goes for chicken and pigs.
And Veal is almost a name for how its prepare, Calf slaughtered very young or milk fed.

I wonder what name cannibals give to human meat. Lol.

I think it’s just a “nice and palatable” way of hiding the fact that we’re eating animals, and the “way” we eat them. For example, instead of mashed chicken liver, we say “chicken pate”. I can’t imagine the menu in a fancy French restaurant serving “lobster guts”, which is a delicacy, but is given the romantic sounding name “tomalley”.

Even vegetables are not immune to this. Take for example “aubergine”, to refer to the common “eggplant”.

@MRSHINYSHOES Many cannibals historically have called it “long pork”.

And isn’t ‘aubergine’ a dialectical difference, applicable in the same cases as “eggplant”?

what?

@incendiary_dan No, eggplant is aubergine is eggplant. If you ever been to expensive fancy restaurants like I have, you will see that on the menu they don’t call eggplant eggplant. It’s just too common. So they call it “Aubergine with Hollandaise.”

I guess if you give a living thing another name then you don’t feel guilty about killing it and eating it.

I’m making baby cow for dinner
I’m making veal for dinner

Which sounds better?

Well, tonight we’ll be eating sizzling chicken parts and cow parts, rolled up in tortillas with soured cow’s titjuice and shredded, aged, dyed cow’s titjuice. I’ll also be brutally mutilating a head of lettuce and gutting a tomato. I feel bad for that tomato too, because I’m pretty vicious with my knife.

@WillWorkForChocolate I can’t believe you neglected to mention chicken BOOBS!!!

I mentioned chicken titty in an earlier comment lol.

I missed it! Hey! Here’s a challenge for you…get ‘chicken boobs’ and ‘thongs’ into one sentence that makes sense!

I cooked chicken boob fajitas last night, while wearing my thong and most comfortable t-shirt.

I roasted a whole chicken today while wearing a little tight booby top… Can I join the club?

You’re in!! Bring your booby top, I’ll wear my thong… we’ll take pictures for bob….. lol.

No no! You have to mention chicken boobs and thongs!

Will we thing thongth about boobth and thighth?

You forgot chickeths again.