2007-02-13 23:42:57 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I can see that most of your answers have come back stating chicken is poultry, which is true, but I believe the point you are trying to make is why is Chicken just called chicken when it comes to naming your food. For example you wouldn't say oh i would love a Poultry burger would you. you'd say Chicken burger, the same goes for beef curry and sweet and sour pork balls.
I suppose the same goes for Orange, why is it referenced to as a colour and a fruit?
To be honest i really don't know the answer to your question, but I think that it just comes down to the way things sound. I thought that i would defend the point you were trying to make because everyone seems to be insulting your intellegence.
2007-02-13 23:54:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
because you can pork a pig, beef up a cow, but go to do anything with a chicken and it just gets scared !
and to the guy above it is called chicken poultry is a wider range of birds...knob
2007-02-13 23:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by Tez 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pig can be reared to provide pork or bacon, cattle (cow) reared for beef or dairy (milk), and a chicken is - a chicken, unless it's a capon or hen. Almost forgot, a young cow, a calf, is veal.
2007-02-14 04:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by Florence-Anna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the Normans arrived in England, the English word was used by the people who looked after the animals and the French word was used by the people who enjoyed the meat on their plates.
( those that looked after the animals didn't eat much of the meat)
Poultry is derived from the word poule (French for chicken)
2007-02-14 00:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While chicken is poultry, you don't go asking for "poultry breasts".
I believe they name them so that it sounds better. After all, nobody wants to eat "little tortured baby cows." They want beef, or veal, or chicken.
Chicken sounds fine, but the rest don't.
2007-02-13 23:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Maul 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically chicken is not just called chicken it goes under the category of Fowl.
2007-02-13 23:45:58 · answer #6 · answered by indiafox1 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chicken is actually poultry and all poultry are called what they are because there is such a variety of birds that we eat and they all have their own flavour.
2007-02-13 23:51:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pig meat can be used for quite a lot of things - Bacon, pork chops, gammon.
Cows also - Steak, beef, hamburgers etc.
Chicken does not have this. It is just chicken, and there are no other products you can make from it. That is why they just call it chicken.
I think I deserve ten points for that!
2007-02-13 23:46:44 · answer #8 · answered by abluebobcat 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
And why does a rancher say "I've got a hundred head" instead of just saying I've got 100 cows? Cows only have 1 head....
2007-02-13 23:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by V 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken can also be called poultry if that helps!! But that does refer to other birds too!!
2007-02-13 23:45:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋