why is ther no other name for chicken when cooked? pig can be called pork;cows can be called beef...?

Answer 1

ya, .... you got Pollo if u got to an italian place ( or Pollo (yo) if you go to a spanish place) but ya... what gives... you should invent one!

Answer 2

For the answer to this question we have to roll the clock back to the year 1066 and the Norman conquest of England.

The ruling French were only concerned about EATING food, while the subjugated Anglo-Saxons were busy RAISING it.

A relic of that fact survives in English today. The word for an animal that is to be eaten is often of French derivation, while the living animal is known by an Anglo-Saxon term, thus: pork/pig, beef/cow, poultry/chicken (or other birds).

Answer 3

Chicken is considered Poultry

Answer 4

Thats a good point. But, i don't think I'd try to change it now. People have called it that in for ever, and it would just confuse peopl. Although there could be some really coolnames...Chicky, yardbird, white and dark, garbage pit, LOL.

Answer 5

Poultry.

Answer 6

if any bird is prepared as a meal, it is called poultry. This doesn't differentiat turkey from duck from chicken though. good call.

Answer 7

i do no longer understand even though plainly like a chicken concepts question. i assume all chicken meat is named after itself. Ostrich, duck, ducks, pheasant, and so on. which begs to ask, why is fowl called rooster?

Answer 8

Isn't poultry before its cooked?

Answer 9

same thing goes for duck too though... duck is duck whether cooked or not,... and lets not forget the poor little fishes...im sure there are others too, but had too much wine to try to figure them out lol

Answer 10

chicken is called poultry.