Sitting here over the remains of a delish lambchop dinner, I’m trying to think of all the surnames (last names) that refer to meat. I’ve come up with:
Bacon
Porcino (Italian=piglet)
Lamar_Mundane:
Johnson
tee hee.
Speck (German=bacon)
Agnello/Agnelli (Italian=lamb)
Cabeza de Vaca, (Cow’s Head) Álvar Núñez, the Spanish explorer of America.
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ⓘ; c. 1488/90/92 – after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he bec In...
So, surnames. Meatloaf wouldn’t count, then?
lieu
October 4, 2008, 4:12am
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There’s that Earl Sandwich fella.
This thread is for the birds
Walter PigeonClaire Goose Emma Duck
Or simply Baca (cow), which is a very common name in the southwest. I forget the two types of Spanish that interchange the B and V , though (Castilian (sp?) and xxx?)
Cicero
October 4, 2008, 5:19am
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We had a girl at work with a surname Fry and a guy with a surname Lamb. The standard joke was that if they got married you would have Lambs Fry.
“Resnik” or “Rasnik” is a fairly common Jewish name, and I think it’s the Russian equivalent of “Shohet,” which is to say, a kosher butcher.
