How a French Invasion Changed Meat Names 🇫🇷🤯 Why Cow Became Beef 🐄

Why is cow meat called beef, pig meat called pork, sheep meat called mutton and deer meat called venison, but chicken is still just chicken?🐄🐖🐑🦌🐔 The answer goes back to 1066. That’s when William the Conqueror and the Normans crossed the English Channel, invaded England and changed the English language forever. After the Norman Conquest, French became the language of kings, nobles, courts and the rich elite, while ordinary peasants continued speaking Old English. So the people who raised the animals used Old English words like cow, pig, sheep and deer. But the nobles who ate the meat used French words like boeuf, porc, mouton and venaison. Over time, those French words became the English meat names we still use today: beef, pork, mutton and venison. But chicken stayed chicken because everyone ate it, rich and poor alike 👑 #england #france #normandy #uk #britain #europe #englishhistory #britishhistory #frenchhistory #englishlanguage #frenchlanguage #history #geography #maps #meatnames #beef #pork #language