Stupid Question- Venison

• Stupid Question- Venison Julitza Posted : 8/25/2006 7:59:19 PM What is Vension or Venison, or however its called? I have seen it on alot of foods and I have no clue what it means [sm=blush.gif] LIKE 9 REPLIES 518 VIEWS LAST POST STEF W Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Carol Bobrowsky Posted : 8/25/2006 8:00:29 PM Hi Venison is deer meat. Carol 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Julitza Posted : 8/25/2006 8:06:39 PM Oh LOL, thank you!   By the way, I think Venison & Rice sounds much better than Deer & Rice []  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• chewbecca Posted : 8/25/2006 8:15:35 PM I just asked my boyfriend this same question last night. d'oh. It's OK. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sandra_slayton Posted : 8/25/2006 10:42:28 PM I had to grin when I thought about the choices of wording--- Venison & Rice, Deer & Rice, Bambi & Rice.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• brookcove Posted : 8/25/2006 11:47:31 PM There's a historic reason that we have that euphemism in our language. Back when the Normans invaded England in 1066, they brought with them the French language and that was what they continued to speak. The lower classes spoke mostly Old English, which had very little in common with their conquerors and now overlords. The Normans set up the whole castles and knights deal in England and spoke French. The Saxons ended up more or less as servants on their estates and they used the language called Anglish. Thus, the animals that the servants tended to feed their masters, were called by Saxon names while alive, and by Norman French names when they graced the master's table as meat. So now we have - pig/pork, cattle/beef, deer/venison, sheep/mutton. We have a ton of these pairs of words for the same reason. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Roxie865 Posted : 8/26/2006 12:22:02 AM ORIGINAL: sandra_slayton I had to grin when I thought about the choices of wording--- Venison & Rice, Deer & Rice, Bambi & Rice.  LOL!!!  Nice, Sandra! [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• ron2 Posted : 8/26/2006 8:48:24 AM When I first got meet my wife's daughter, a strict vegan, I did not know she was in the house as I was coming in the door. I had some deer link and deer sausage that a co-worker brought to work for lunch. I walked in the door and said, "Look what I got? Bambi meat!" winning friends and influencing people. Actually, her daughter was okay with it and appreciated the humor. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Stef w Posted : 8/26/2006 9:28:37 AM Yup - the french words for the meat are very similar:   FR     ENG porc (pig) - pork boeuf (ox) - beef  mouton (sheep) - mutton   The names we use for the animals are sometimes the same: mouton-sheep but not always.  We use "vache" to denote a female cow and "taureau" for a bull.  Pig is a cochon.    I had to look up Venison - since it doesn't bear resemblance to any french word I'm familiar with.  Venison came from a latin word meaning the flesh of "beasts of the chase" which often would have been deer but also boar.  It's modern usage that denotes venison as "deer meat".  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Luvntzus Posted : 8/26/2006 12:58:22 PM ORIGINAL: sandra_slayton I had to grin when I thought about the choices of wording--- Venison & Rice, Deer & Rice, Bambi & Rice.      Bambi and rice... ahhh! []   This thread got me thinking about the fact that all meat names are really euphemisms. [8|] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login