# Veal = Pork Tenderloin...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 16, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395 "2002-06-16T19:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Church\_Key\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/1 "2002-06-16T19:44:06Z")
In my hometown, many of the restaurants serve fried pork tenderloin, but they all call it “Veal”. Obviously, it’s not veal. It’s pork. Nobody I talked to knows why its called that. Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon? Additionally, the “veal” is also 2-3 times wider (in diameter) than the bun. Are all pork tenderloin sandwiches served that way? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/2 "2002-06-16T19:53:23Z")
Never heard of it. Where the hell are you from? ---
**Author:** ![Church\_Key\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/3 "2002-06-16T19:53:53Z")
Jackson, Ohio… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/4 "2002-06-16T20:02:30Z")
Most pork tenderloin sandwiches I have seen have the meat far overlapping the bun. Apparently they make it tender by beating the dickens out of it with a mallet, and it spreads wide (and thin). I’ve never heard it called “veal.” I assume it’s a regional thing. There is a cut of pork called the tenderloin, akin to beef tenderloin (= filet mignon). It’s quite different from what is used in a pork tenderloin sandwich. Why they use the same name, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![spheric\_thor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@spheric\_thor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spheric_thor)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/5 "2002-06-16T20:12:33Z")
Pork tenderloin and veal are 2 diffrent things. Veal comes from cows and pork is from pigs. When it’s breaded and fried and smothered in gravy it can be a little hard to tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/6 "2002-06-16T22:11:26Z")
In (less then reputable) catering halls sometimes chicken is used as a cheaper alternitive to veal - never heard of pork being used though. Are they trying to pass it off as veal or are they calling it veal for some other reason? ---
**Author:** ![Church\_Key\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/7 "2002-06-16T23:54:57Z")
No… everybody knows that its pork tenderloin. Its just a local thing, I guess, as several restaurants and even the elementary schools call it veal. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/8 "2002-06-17T00:11:19Z")
Well, I expect the veal and pork industries would both take exception to that. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/9 "2002-06-17T02:22:25Z")
Wag: Maybe there was a shortage of veal in your area at one time so dishes typically made w/ veal were made with pork and those items stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/10 "2002-06-17T03:15:00Z")
Call the national Media and let them laugh at the diners and schools that call pork “veal”. They maybe they’ll use the correct names. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/11 "2002-06-17T03:20:16Z")
Well, “wiener schnitzel” is a veal cutlet flattened out and breaded the same way the pork tenderloin for the Midwestern pork tenderloin sandwich is flattened out and breaded. So there’s a strong physical resemblance. [http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/europe/austrian/00/rec0002.html](http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/europe/austrian/00/rec0002.html) Just a WAG here–is Jackson anywhere near Cincinnati, that hotbed of Germanic cuisine? 😃 [checks Rand McNally] Okay, well, it’s not exactly a suburb, but it’s certainly down there in the Southern Ohio German Belt, innit? So I’m guessing that it’s just the physical resemblance, having nothing to do with the actual meat. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/12 "2002-06-17T03:39:05Z")
And I’m guessing that it’s a strictly Southern Ohio thing–here in Illinois I’ve never heard it called anything besides “pork tenderloin sandwich”. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/13 "2002-06-17T04:01:53Z")
And tenderloin ain’t exactly cheap, either. Calling a tenderloin sandwich veal is like calling a BMW a Hundai. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/14 "2002-06-17T11:58:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Calling a tenderloin sandwich veal is like calling a BMW a Hundai. Even though there are many cuts of veal, around here veal sells for more (on avergae) then pork tenderloin. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/15 "2002-06-17T12:04:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, “wiener schnitzel” is a veal cutlet flattened out and breaded the same way the pork tenderloin for the Midwestern pork tenderloin sandwich is flattened out and breaded. So there’s a strong physical resemblance. Wienerschnitzel fast-food restaurants don’t sell Wienerschnitzel. They use the name because they sell wieners (hot dogs). At least they _finally_ changed there name (a while back, but it was wrong for most of the time I was growing up) from \*_Der_ Wienerschnitzel. (It should be “das”.) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/16 "2002-06-17T13:18:41Z")
I’m from southern Ohio too and have noticed another odd food terminology – bell peppers (green peppers) are called “mangos” in many pizza joints. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/17 "2002-06-17T16:08:09Z")
[qoute]bell peppers (green peppers) are called “mangos” [/quote] Ar? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Church\_Key\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/18 "2002-06-17T16:55:07Z")
Yes… some people in my hometown also call green papers mangos. Maybe I just come from a backgrounds town. They also say “crick” for the word “creek” (as in, “I caught some crawdads in the crick today”) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/19 "2002-06-17T17:25:42Z")
So what do they call mangos? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395/20 "2002-06-17T17:40:34Z")
I rather think that mangos are not widely consumed in those areas. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veal-pork-tenderloin/114395.md?page=2)