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Old Feb 13, 2016, 05:40 AM
ManOfConstantSorrow ManOfConstantSorrow is offline
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Originally Posted by George H. View Post
Why is meat from cows beef or cattle? Why is meat from pigs called pork? Chicken is chicken. Fish is fish.
What would we call horse if we ate meat from a horse? Why do most people react with horror at the thought of horse as meat?
In the UK we used to call horse flesh 'prepared foods': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_m...ration_scandal

The British don't like to eat horse because we love horses to distraction, but those blighters across the channel seem not to care. But on the other hand we don't seem to care enough not to export horses to them, live and dead, for food.

Horse flesh is mostly used in pet foods in the UK I believe.