Talk:Seddie/@comment-4087636-20110811183947/@comment-3553219-20110811201247

Well the reason that food often has a different name than the animal it comes from is that in the Middle Ages the nobility in England where from Normandy (which is in France) and most of them spoke French not English. And in those days only the nobility ate meat regularly and most of those names have roots in French words. So a peasant would milk a cow but an Earl would eat beef (derived from French word boeuf). At the time they just lumped all domesticated birds that would be eaten or used for their eggs as poultry (derived from the French pouleterie). Over time the Norman/French aristocracy became more and more English and Anglo-Saxon/English became the dominant language but they kept a lot of words. But poultry was to imprecise as it refereed to all birds. So over time they simplified it and just said we are eating chicken.