re: #447 makeitstop

I demand a shorter name for horse meat than ‘horse meat.’

Cow meat = beef. Horse meat = ???

Wanna know something cool?

The reason we have two words for everything like that in English is because of the Norman conquest. The Normans took over, and they weren’t going to be standing around in shit herding cattle, so when they said “Boeuf”, they were referring to the stuff on their plate. When the Saxon who was actually tending the animal referred to it, he called it a “Cow”. So we got one word for the meat, one word for the animal, due to class and language differences between the ruling and peasant classes.

Oh, and the Normans didn’t really eat horse so we don’t have a word for that meat.