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[โ€“] 44 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

I was going to disagree with you based on etymological pedantry, but it turns out the Old English "mete" just means "food" so now I have to agree with you based on etymological pedantry.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just like how the rules forbidding plant milk to be called milk make no sense. Plant milk has existed for many centuries.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    "Plant milk" could be a bit like "berry" though, in that as we have consolidated and rationalised our definitions it falls out of it. When we tried to come up with a clear idea of what a "berry" is we ended up excluding almost everything that has "berry" in the name. Like how tomatoes are fruits by the technical definition of a fruit.

    Except for the fact that the reason plant milk is being excluded is entirely commercial lobbying, rather than a scientific or rational definition.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fuck's sake, 2nd time that's happened to me in this thread. I thought steak should just be beef, but it turns out:

    The word steak was written steke in Middle English, and comes from the mid-15th century Scandinavian word steik, related to the Old Norse steikja 'to roast on a stake', and so is related to the word stick or stake.

    I don't even want to look up bacon now, I need to believe that it should just be pig.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    early 14c., "meat from the back and sides of a hog" (originally either fresh or cured, but especially cured), from Old French bacon, from Proto-Germanic *bakkon "back meat" (source also of Old High German bahho, Old Dutch baken "bacon"), from the source of back (n.).

    Nah, bacon is bacon

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