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Ok I’ve told this story before and it’s true, shut up. The current Fulham owner Shahid Khan tried to buy Everton before Fulham, his family married into our extended family by way of US > Scouse exile.
 
Harryflashman said:
Unlike most languages English has specialized terms for the meat of particular animals, deriving from the Norman conquest of England in 1066: while the animals retained their English names, their meat as brought to the tables of the invaders was named in Norman French. These names came to be used by the entire population.

So the English peasants would raise and slaughter a cow , and the French lords would eat the beouf. The peasants raise a pig, the French would eat the porc. And by the way, the English would raise a sheep, but the French would eat the mutton.

Chicken, however, was a very cheap meat that even peseants could afford, so the English word remained more popular although poultry had its origins in pouletrie apparently
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This is very interesting... but - isnt the French word for cow - Vache? The French word for Beef is Beouf. I am intrigued to know why we use the word beef for cow meat in the first place, or I guess why the French called it Beouf?
 
Charles Hawtrey said:
This is very interesting... but - isnt the French word for cow - Vache? The French word for Beef is Beouf. I am intrigued to know why we use the word beef for cow meat in the first place, or I guess why the French called it Beouf?
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Honestly I have no clue , as I said it came up in Mitchell’s book unruly and it did kind of make sense . Google sort of backs up the theory but who knows .

The idea I think is that the poor weren’t eating , beef for example , so over time the Normans saying they were eating beouf became the norm to describe the dish in front of them whilst the animal in the field remained the cow . I can’t say it’s true and Mitchell didn’t go into great detail but it was delivered with enough detail , and his style for me to buy into it . I definitely had a WTF moment when I saw it though.
 

Women in the United States could not open their own bank account until 1974. This changed with the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), which prohibited discrimination in lending based on gender, race, marital status, and other factors.
 
Charles Hawtrey said:
This is very interesting... but - isnt the French word for cow - Vache? The French word for Beef is Beouf. I am intrigued to know why we use the word beef for cow meat in the first place, or I guess why the French called it Beouf?
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I think it is part of the, still common, snobbery of using French words when we want to impress ourselves and others. This hangs on a lot still with luxury goods and, in this case, with what was “fine” dining of the day.
 

In the 1890s the internationally renowned concert pianist Ignacy Paderewski complained that when he walked the streets of New York City, street urchins would yell “Get a haircut” at him.
 

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