# If you kill broccoli, it will scream **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634 "2000-06-26T22:54:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/1 "2000-06-26T22:54:20Z")
Why does meat have so many different names? Why not call it what it is? There are some, but few meats that are called by what they are: lamb and chicken, for instance. But there is steak, beef, venison,bacon, pork, veal,ham. Lets just call em dead pigs, etc. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/2 "2000-06-26T23:00:42Z")
But I don’t eat ham, But Bacon…mmmm… ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/3 "2000-06-26T23:04:48Z")
\ “And how would you prefer your piece of dead cow, Mr. 41?” \ “Why, I’d surely love for a strip of that cow to be cut from, er, the side of the cow, toward the rear, but just in front of the rump, kinda high up, but not all the way up on the spine. Oh, and then chargrill that hunk o’ cow until the outside is dark, but the inside still looks like fresh dead cow. Thanks.” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/4 "2000-06-26T23:20:51Z")
“Hi, I’m your dinner for tonight. Excuse me while I go in the back to humanely shoot myself.” OK folks… free beer in Amsterdam for the first to get the reference!! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/5 "2000-06-26T23:39:31Z")
Because it’s not just “dead pig” Ham > [@](#): > > a cut of meat consisting of a thigh; especially : one from a hog Bacon > [@](#): > > a side of a pig cured and smoked Or, “Dead cow” veal > [@](#): > > the flesh of a young calf As opposed to steak which is flesh of mature cattle. See why it needs to be distinguished? ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/6 "2000-06-26T23:49:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > “Hi, I’m your dinner for tonight. Excuse me while I go in the back to humanely shoot myself.” > > OK folks… free beer in Amsterdam for the first to get the reference!! > \*\* This sounds like a meal at the restaraunt at the end of the universe. pat ps: Will I have to wear those wooden shoes to drink the beer? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/7 "2000-06-26T23:49:50Z")
Coldfire: The restaurant at the end of the universe… Douglas Adams is a genius. I was in Amsterdam two months ago… I’d like to go again sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/8 "2000-06-26T23:57:01Z")
Pricciar wins the free beer in Amsterdam! No clogs required mate. When are you coming over? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/9 "2000-06-26T23:59:01Z")
I knew this one! And I’m what, 10, 15 minutes too late to win free beer in Amsterdam… Hey, I have a whole lotta Dutch blood (heritage-wise, not stored in vats or anything). Does that make a difference? I’m all too willing to suck up if it’ll get me to Amsterdam someday. Btw, vanilla-- if your thread title ever turns out to be true, veg-heads like myself will be reduced to absorbing nutrients from the air. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/10 "2000-06-27T00:01:48Z")
Brocolli actually suffers in silence sacrificing itself in the name of nutrician. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/11 "2000-06-27T00:07:27Z")
In Esperanto, the names various kinds of meat are “bovajho”, “porkajho”, “kokajho”, etc. Literally, cow-thing, pig-thing, chicken-thing, etc. You can’t get much more graphic than that. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/12 "2000-06-27T00:11:14Z")
The main reason that there is a different name for the animal & the food is the Norman invasion - after this most of the English upper class were either French or learned French, whereas the lower orders continued to speak Saxon. In general, the animal name is Saxon derivative, whereas the food name is French. Perhaps we should become Fruititarians? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/13 "2000-06-27T00:27:08Z")
> [@](#): > > In Esperanto, the names various kinds of meat are “bovajho”, “porkajho”, “kokajho”, etc. Literally, cow-thing, pig-thing, chicken-thing, etc. You can’t get much more graphic than that. You can’t get more graphic than “thing”?!? Or do you mean you can’t get more graphic than that in Esperanto? (In which case it may only be a useful language for Hemingway translations 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/14 "2000-06-27T00:30:22Z")
But if I have to \*\* EAT \*\* it I scream… ---
**Author:** ![SILENT-BOB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@SILENT-BOB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SILENT-BOB)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/15 "2000-06-27T01:02:26Z")
:wally ---
**Author:** ![Jo3sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jo3sh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jo3sh)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/16 "2000-06-27T03:44:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > In Esperanto, the names various kinds of meat are “bovajho”, “porkajho”, “kokajho”, etc. Literally, cow-thing, pig-thing, chicken-thing, etc. You can’t get much more graphic than that. > \*\* Well, there’s the problem. Esperantans aren’t eating the right part of the animals, just the “things.” How many chicken-things in a serving, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![InsanityIncarnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7cd45c/32.png) [@InsanityIncarnate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsanityIncarnate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-kill-broccoli-it-will-scream/23634/17 "2000-06-27T09:28:40Z")
There is one meat product out there that tells what it is sounds gross and lots of people still eat it. So can anyone tell me just what part of the chicken the nugget is?