Chicken might be the only animal where Googling it often shows pictures of it cooked instead of alive
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As far as I can tell, salmon and shrimp both do too
Its really if you call the animal the same thing. Cow and beef Chicken and chicken.
Oyster and clams too. Seems most shellfish are like that.
tuna too. you google tuna expecting a fish and you get cans
Isn't it because in English you use 'chicken' for both the animal and the meat, while beef/cow and pork/pig have different words?
Of course it is. That's why this isn't a shower thought
Beef is an animal. It’s a sterilized bull
That is the right answer
Because it's called the same dead and alive.
in japanese, if you look up almost any fish name (esp ocean fish) to see what it looks like, you will get sushi photos.
As it should
I think it's because it's one of those words which is used for both animal and the food it is made of, other word for the animal would be poultry, which should show alive group. Lamb, beef, pork describe the food not the animal. The sex specific word does show live animals: ...
Yes except lamb is the animal too, if you Google it you'll primarily see live lamb
Lamb is baby sheep and the meat of a baby sheep (lamb). Mutton is the word for actual sheep meat. Lamb is for both the animal and the dead food while sheep is for animal and mutton is for dead food
Cow is beef, pig is pork, chicken is chicken..
Today, I learned: Basically, if it was expensive and served to a lord, it got a French makeover. If it was common backyard fare, it kept its English roots. Cow became beef, but chicken stayed chicken
Because Chicken is mostly referred to by chicken, instead of Poultry. Same with Turkey, duck, lamb… basically every fish… there’s quite a few actually now that I think about it… Pork, beef, mutton… those are the only ones that come to mind that have a different name for their...
Venison has entered the chat
And if you are unlucky, it might show you something REALLY different
the larger the animal the more likely you are to call it something else once it's dead
That's because the name of the edible product is the same as the animal, unlike beef or ham.
Look up mantis shrimp and look it up in Chinese 濑尿虾
Anything where the word for it cooked is the same as the word for it alive would probably have this.
tried it with turkey - surprising amount of turkiye
Shrimp. I keep them as pets so if I’m not specific enough in the search bar, I start seeing them on rice
Same for "beef," which actually is the name for an animal, though it's not used that way much anymore. And the plural is "beeves." No kidding!
Isn't "beef" already the plural of "boof" ?
Beefi
But when you google male chicken you get pictures that are neither live animal nor cooked meat.
Raw meat
I was expecting to get it for Turkey too but in a plot twist, I got the country!
It's only not true in English for pig, and cow. The word pork entered English from the Old French word porc, which itself came from the Latin porcus for "pig". Beef: The term originates from Norman French boef after the 1066 conquest, separating the food name from the Old Eng...
This is because our word for the food is the same as the word for the animal. This is different to something like pork or beef, where we call it pork & beef instead of Pig & Cow. I know this comes from difference in root languange, but i don't know the specifics
Fish
People pointing out that the word chicken applies to both the animal and the food, but there’s also the fact that chickens are animals that only exist as a food source and the term chicken specifically refers to animals used for food. If you google “fowl” you’ll get a picture ...
I tried "puerco" and "schwein". For "puerco" it was pretty evenly split between recipes (mostly in Spanish, but surprisingly many in English) and "how do you translate puerco into English". Seriously, your taco truck menus are in English? (You do get tacos from a truck, right...
Just searched "Chicken" on google imagines and its funny, all the images on the left showed alive chickens while all the images on the right showed cooked chickens
To be fair, you don’t google “cow” if you’re after “beef” specifically, Nor do you google “pig” if you want “pork” in the same vein.
When I google “pitbull” I get someone else.
Main reason for that might be other animals are called something different when they are food. (Fish doesn’t quite make the cut, and neither does turkey) Cow = beef Pig = pork Deer = venison I’m sure there’s more.
Did one of the cows from chic fil a post this?
I mean, you are asking for the meat and not the bird.
When the name of the animal is also the name of the food, it seems more likely
It's the only bird where the search results immediately pivot from "live ingredient" to "main course." Maybe that's just the market being efficient hahaha!
Beef and pork would like to have a word with you.
Beef and pork are not names of animal
Cows and pigs too. Half the images are steak and bacon before the actual animal shows up.
Technically speaking a “chicken” isn’t an animal. There are hens and roosters. Much like a cow isn’t called “beef”
Chicken is a bird but birds are animals no?. I think the word you were going for was mammals
I thought "fish?" then promptly googled it and was proven wrong.
Isn't that most foods in general? Like beef chicken
This was a problem with AI, people ask to generate salmon and were distraught they got fillets frolicking in the wilderness
Turkeys have also entered the chat. Especially in November
Also considering what people use Google search for… and how good focused we are
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