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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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