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Funny that we have certain collective nouns that don't cross meat types. -- Fish sticks -- Chicken nuggets or fingers -- Shrimp poppers And beef / pork don'
by supernova87a 5y ago
Funny that we have certain collective nouns that don't cross meat types.
-- Fish sticks
-- Chicken nuggets or fingers
-- Shrimp poppers
And beef / pork don't seem to ever fall into those. (pork sticks?? Beef nuggets??)
Maybe because beef, pork seem worthy of preserving identity as a piece of a distinguishable reputable whole parent, while fish, chicken, are sometimes almost.... um, extruded and need a noun of their own after such process?
- justinv 5y agoFwiw - in Ireland & UK, they're fish fingers, not fish sticks.
- fl0wenol 5y agoInteresting -- for the US "fingers" is reserved for breaded frozen meat that appears to be hand-formed (that is, not rectangular, but still likely machine-made at scale). Chicken fingers and fish fingers are commonly available.
- chumich1 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_steaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_steaks
- BucketsMcG 5y agoWhat's a sausage if it's not an extruded pork stick?