To not like it when people refer to the meat as "the bird"?

[AwfulMaureen]

It puts me right off! I only hear people say it at Christmas..."I put the bird in at about 10.00." and "The bird was in the oven.."

YACK!

You don't say "I've put the cow in" when you're having beef...or even "The mammal is cooking nicely"

So why "bird". And AIBU?

Yabu.

Meat is dead animal. It is childish to desensitise yourself from that fact.

Yes yes Ali I get that by this point. I was moving on. Sorry if that's not allowed on AIBU

We quite often refer to the meat we are eating by the animal name.

Many other languages, the name for the animal and the meat from it is the same. English has kept the Anglo Saxon names for the animals, and the Norman French names for the meat - I think it is that way around.

If you eat meat then you should be able to face that fact that it comes from an animal.

You shouldn't encourage your children to be unaware that the duck you're eating looked just like the ducks at the local park pond either.

Same with lamb. I coo at lambs in the fields in spring, they're very sweet. I know the lamb chops I eat once ran around a field. I'm ok with that.

If it came to it, I'd kill an animal for meat myself.

No need to be defensive OP. You post something in AIBU, people will offer opinions.

Glad you're moving on from it though.

Yes I moved on after about three people told me I was BU. I wanted to get some advice but never mind. Forgot how miserable it can be here.

Well I agree with you.

Your not awful, Maureen.

I wasn't being miserable. Have had though so possibly being a tad serious.

Re nut roasts for your DH - apparently some are really nice, others disgusting. A hit and miss affair.

Hope you have a nice Christmas

This is a wind up isn't it?

You need mushroom wellington its faff central but its lushness

I thought it was just a bit of lightheartedness myself.

I saw a mushroom Wellington on come dine with me the other day, it looked lovely.

Do you say the funghi is nearly ready.

It was Harold. Sometimes a thread in AIBU can turn into a banter...then people come along and sort of ignore the tone it's taken...and it spoils it. I get that people may not have read it through though. I was only being silly...bored!

Maryz that's it!

Turkey is fine, bird a bit weird.

Please don't be prissy with your children about where meat comes from Just be open and honest, they might wail for a day but they'll get over pretty quickly if you treat it as a factual issue and not as a melodrama of fluffy animal slaying

google moroccan spiced pie for veggie xmas lunch - it's lush (it's a bbc good food recipe and i can do links on my tablet)

LEM

do you say "the welly is in the oven"?

MaryZ who's stalking who now?
my BIL and SIL used to call each other "bird and bloke".
I thought it was a funny but weird thing to do.

Ah balls, I've turned into one of the fun ruiners.

I'm a great laugh I tell you!

@ Maryz that wasn't quite what I meant!

Alis, I thought you were out a-hunting

Too much wine Harold, just imagine how bad my aim would be!

Thanks guys....going to google the Moroccan thingy.

YANBU. Not because I am squeamish - I have no problem with saying 'chicken', 'turkey', 'duck' or 'goose'. I just find it intensely irritating and it makes me want to hit people. Hearing people say the word 'cruet' makes me feel much the same.

When I first cooked a whole chicken I was a bit taken aback. I'm over it now. I say I've got the chicken in the oven. I feel you are being slightly over-sensitive OP, given that you actually eat meat.

I hate the term 'pigs in blankets'. It's nothing to do with sensitivity over piggy-wiggys, it just sounds so babyish and twee. They're sausages with bacon round them.

I want to kill people who say 'roasties'.