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The language has stagnated in many areas. Meat is flesh. Maybe we can call vegetable products that try to emulate meat: veat, in English anyway. There's prob
by linuxftw 3y ago
The language has stagnated in many areas. Meat is flesh.
Maybe we can call vegetable products that try to emulate meat: veat, in English anyway. There's probably already a term that has fallen out of common usage, maybe we can look it up.
- rightbyte 3y ago> veat Pronounced as wheat? Pick something else please.
- gwill 3y agonot OP but: pronounced as as veat, as in vegetable. They were clear to say for English speakers.
- dylan604 3y agoMany people refer to the flesh of the fruit vs the skin vs the seed.
- harimau777 3y agoIt seems to me that there's a long history of using "meat" and "flesh" for things that don't come from animals. For example, the common name for the edible solid and liquid parts of coconuts are the coconut meat and milk respectively. More broadly, it's common to refer to the pulpy edible part of fruits as the fruit's "meat" or "flesh" respectively.
- yummypaint 3y agoThere are also lots of people who don't recognize meat from fish as meat for some reason.
- harimau777 3y agoOther examples of food names that could be misleading or where changed for marketing purposes: orange roughy, Chilean sea bass, headcheese, mountain oysters, crab sticks, fruit leather, black pudding, and astronaut ice cream.
- basscomm 3y ago> The language has stagnated in many areas. Meat is flesh. The soft part of a fruit or a plant that you eat is also called flesh. The soft part of a nut that you eat from inside the shell that you is called nutmeat. In English we've used 'meaty' words to describe plants for over a century.
- lopis 3y agoAnd soy and almond milk has been called as such for centuries. We call lots of inedible white saps milk too.
- r00fus 3y agoGood idea; bad example.