Words for Meat

[foxgrrl]

In English, the cooked meat of each animal has a different word for it. For example:
Cow → Beef
Pig → Pork
Sheep → Mutton
This is because of the collision of the Saxon and Norman languages about a thousand years ago. Every animal has a specialized word for it's meat, including Dolphin. Apparently during the Tudor period, each animal also had specialized carving instruments for cutting them up, and each tool had it's own specialized name (including Dolphin).

Dear Lazyweb:

Can you provide me with a list of all of the specialized names for the cooked meat of each animal?

Comments

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

http://everything2.com/title/Anglo-Saxon%2520words%2520for%2520animals%252C%2520French%2520words%2520for%2520meat

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1193436

In the latter, be sure to check out the final spreadsheet of names: http://forum.wordreference.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5992&d=1231605745

This is the most comprehensive listing of animal names vs meat names that I'm able to find. It doesn't include anything as exotic as dolphin meat, however, nor can I presently find the specialized name for dolphin meat at all.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

I think "Poultry" refers to all birds, not just Chicken. Just like "Seafood" refers to all meat-animals that resides in the sea (of which "Shellfish" is a subset)

Otherwise, chicken is just chicken, duck is just duck, fish is just fish, etc.

And...Buffalo is just buffalo. :)

[thewerewolf.livejournal.com]

But it comes from "poulet" which is French for chicken. :)