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

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

What I learned in college linguistics classes was this: the names of the animals were Germanic because the Saxons raised the animals, but the names of the meats were French/Romance because the Normans ate the animals.

(I don't know any specialized animal food names, though, besides the obvious beef, pork, mutton, poultry, venison)