Y r all meats from birds called by the animals name,but animals r called something else like pork,beef,?

Question

it might be that you get different flavours/cuts with pork and beef etc, but then you get breast, wing, leg, white and brown with chicken??

Answer 1

All bird-meats are also known by the generic name of "poultry." This comes from the idea of a young bird being called a "poult."
The names "beef", "pork" and "mutton" used to refer to the meat of slaughtered animals, come from French: boef, porc, mouton.
Perhaps because the French were considered the best chefs for a long time and the first detailed cookbooks that were widely distributed were in French.

Answer 2

The 'main' types of meat are eaten and traded between a number of different cultures; this trade goes back a long way, so a lot of the names have been transliterated from one language to another. Usually it started out as the name of the animal.

Birds, shellfish, fungi and other 'minor' foodstuffs vary over time and location as to whether they are included in the 'normal' diet.

If they start being eaten, the fashion will most likely fade before the name is transformed or borrowed by another culture. One bird that is eaten a lot was called (erroneously) a 'turkey-coque', and the mistake has never been corrected.

Answer 3

The words pork, beef and mutton come from the old French words for the animals - porc, boeuf, mouton. This may be because when the Normans ruled England only the rich aristocracy, who would have spoken French, could afford to eat these animals.

Answer 4

Names for live animals are mainly of Saxon origin. When the Normans arrived, they used their language to refer to the beasts that were mainly presented to them by the Saxons ready prepared for consumption.
Hence the two different words.

Answer 5

Good question! You could also say mutton. Lamb is the exception to that...

Answer 6

good point....but saying were having cow for dinner doesnt really sound right does it! hehe

Answer 7

What are you talking about????????????????
Duck? Chicken? Turkey? Lamb? Cod? Have you the remotest idea what it is you eat?

Answer 8

Dunno, but there was this bird my mum used to say was mutton dressed up as lamb!