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ArchivesFine Dining Among the Angevins
in reply to a message by Nanaea
Your comment about "horsemeat" raises a question:
The Modern English names for most kinds of meat came from the French (Normans ate meat), while the words for the originating animal came from Old English (Saxons raised meat), so we have yummy cuts of boeuf, porc, and mouton coming from cow, swine, and sheep.
Does the fact that we say "horsemeat" instead of, say, "cheval" mean that the Normans didn't regularly dine on horses?
And, further off-topic, why do we eat "tuna fish" but not "trout fish" or "mackerel fish"?
(Now, codfish as distinguished from codpiece I can understand...)
The Modern English names for most kinds of meat came from the French (Normans ate meat), while the words for the originating animal came from Old English (Saxons raised meat), so we have yummy cuts of boeuf, porc, and mouton coming from cow, swine, and sheep.
Does the fact that we say "horsemeat" instead of, say, "cheval" mean that the Normans didn't regularly dine on horses?
And, further off-topic, why do we eat "tuna fish" but not "trout fish" or "mackerel fish"?
(Now, codfish as distinguished from codpiece I can understand...)
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