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TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.
› added 10 years ago
340
TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.