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Why Did the Chicken Get Called Chicken Dinner?

03/12/2016 10:42 PM

The power has gone out and in the dakness some of lifes great questions have surfaced.

If cow is beef, deer is venison and pig is pork then what about chicken, rabbit and lamb?

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03/12/2016 10:52 PM

Poultry, Hasenpfeffer , lamb is actually a young sheep, so....mutton is an adult sheep and hogget is teenager...

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03/13/2016 6:24 AM

Couldn't very well call it "mature egg" since that would presume that the egg came first!!!!

Besides, there had to be the original "white meat" for everything else to be compared to.

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03/13/2016 7:30 AM

Ok.. I'll give you that there are other names.. I wasn't aware of the one for rabbit. What I'm speaking of is the name for the meat you see on the menu.

I've seen a poultry section.. Ok.. And mutton too.

Wait? I'm still unsure how hamburgers got on the beef menu?

There are many examples too.

Bison is a bison burger..

Eel is an eel.

So why is pigion squab?

Vealy.. I'd like to know

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03/13/2016 10:51 AM

Surely you've heard of the Earl of Hamburg?... or was that sandwich....anyway I'm guessing it had something to do with people from Hamburg...All I know is never order Rocky Mountain Oysters....or head Cheese....or anything to do with Brains...pretty much anything English....

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03/13/2016 7:34 AM

It seems maybe the common denominator is the size of the animal. If you don't generally cook the whole thing at once, the part you cook has a different name.

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03/13/2016 10:24 AM

Then there is Pinctada, Swikee, and Calamari....does not taste like chicken!

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03/13/2016 1:17 PM

It's called "chicken" because it hadn't gotten "...across the road..." yet when alternative names were being passed out.

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03/14/2016 9:06 AM

You forgot turkey. Turkey meat is turkey, just as chicken is chicken. Then there are all the different types of fish, and there is another puzzler - more than one fish, is still fish, except in certain exceptions. Why?

Better question - why haven't we taken the time to simplify the English language? We have mixed at least 6 different languages together so that every rule has an exception, and there are a multitude of similarly spelled words pronounced differently.

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03/14/2016 1:05 PM

cents, scents, since, sense, syntz, sints....ok I made up the last two...too, to...

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03/14/2016 1:09 PM

From what I read, red, that's right, rite, write.

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03/17/2016 11:33 AM

I didn't know no until you said so sew

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03/17/2016 11:31 AM

Flammable = able to catch fire
Inflammable = high likelihood of catching fire
Language shucks at thymes

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