Words To Eat By

I know plenty of farmers who happily eat the very meat they helped deliver from its mother. And what about the Youtube series Epic Meal Time? They aren't afraid to mention they eat ground cow or whatever cut of pig (sans bacon strips). Maybe humans were revolted by this years ago, but I don't think it's really the case at this point. Maybe the words just stuck to the English language and there's no real reason to change them when everyone understands the difference between a hamburger (thought to originate from Hamburg) and a porkburger.

Yes, I too know plenty of people who have no qualms about calling meat by the name of the animal it came from. And there certainly does seem to be a meaty trend going on lately, from the "Refined Meathead School" to "Nose to Tail Eating." My point, though, is that by and large there are more euphemisms and foreign names when it comes to our meat vocabulary than there are with anything else we eat--and there always have been. Of course there are some people who are confident carnivores, but there's also an awful lot of people who'd rather not think about what it is they're eating. Why else would we have "sweetbreads"?
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