How come the food chicken is called chicken but beef isn’t called cow?

[Vermilioncore]

You can get chicken fingers but not cow sandwich or pig fingers. Why? What if I want to call it pig instead of bacon and wanna eat some slivers of swine peppa pig types sot innnit

 

[BrendioEEE]

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[Deleted member 25713]

You can cook and eat a whole chicken. You can’t really cook and eat a whole cow.

 

[Vermilioncore]

You can cook and eat a whole chicken. You can’t really cook and eat a whole cow.

You can roast a whole pig but no one calls it pig whehn you eat it