GentleMan GefWhy doesn't chicken get a second name?
Cows get beef and pigs get pork, but chicken is just chicken.
What's the deal?
Theriac@SecularJeffrey
Talk to the Normans
Talk to the Normans
frog@SecularJeffrey Poultry? But I think that may be a very specific type of chicken.
Aaron David@frog @SecularJeffrey Poultry includes chicken, turkey, duck, goose etc
BunRab Is Old And TiredPoultry is chickens, ducks, geese, and turkey - the domesticated Galliformes and Anatidae. Arguably also peafowl and pheasants since in some places they're domesticated.
Darth Hideout 🏳️🌈@SecularJeffrey Poultry
It's always one from German, one from French from the days of Middle English.
German for the peasants in the fields (live animals)
French for the nobles (meat on the plate)
Gerard Cunningham ✒️@SecularJeffrey Those are rich people names.
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Mx "Vote Green" Fraud@SecularJeffrey I guess poultry is not quite as acurate as the other.
KM7CDC@SecularJeffrey The whole poultry affair sounds absolutely clucking frustrating..
rag. Gustavino BevilacquaWell, there are hen and rooster.
Not usually used for finished food though
In Italian we have "gallina" (hen) for the broth, and "pollo" for almost everything else when cooked.
linear cannon@SecularJeffrey beef is related to french "boeuf" meaning "cow", and "pork" also relates to the french "porc" for pig.
for french "poulet" for chicken, we use "poultry" as a more generic term instead of a specific one
for french "poulet" for chicken, we use "poultry" as a more generic term instead of a specific one
Don't often get poultry strips though
David Megginson@SecularJeffrey "Pullet", but it didn't catch on.
Patrick Loftus 🖖
@SecularJeffrey I thought chicken was also called everything… since everything tastes like it.
Paul Chambers🚧@SecularJeffrey Chickens wasted too much time crossing the road for who knows why and never signed up for a second name by the time the deadline came and went...
Tito Swineflu@SecularJeffrey usually it's because of french and German versions of the word. For chicken, we have poultry from the french and the word "pullet" which has lost popularity in the last 100 years.
Doktor Overcomma 
@SecularJeffrey Sorry about going all pedantic, but:
The Normans (Norsemen from Normandy) invaded and conquered southern Britain in 1066. Animal names remained Anglo-Saxon, while foods they provided got Norman French names. The peasants had to care for the animals, the Norman elite ate them. So:
chicken = pullet (from poulet), although that has mostly disappeared
sheep = mutton (from mouton)
cow = beef (from bouef)
swine = pork, and I don't know where "pig" came from
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