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?

Obviously I meant I can't do links - doh!

Here is it: www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2295/moroccan-spiced-pie

YABU
and in fact bonkers as conkers

Carda I hate it too...I actually think it's what you describe more than squeamishness...it's like the thread recently about "enjoying a meal" I hate that phrase too!

If you cant cope with the idea that a cute little turkey wurkey is what you will be eating then maybe dont eat cute little turkey wurkeys

This

It disgusts and angers me the way meat eaters disassociate what they like to eat from being an animal that was raised and killed for them.

It's no wonder that dreadful farming practices have flourished in order to make meat cheap.

If every meat eater had to fully understand and accept how and animal is kept in life and how it meets it's death then animal welfare would increase 100 fold and people would stop overeating on meat and throwing it in the bin.

Turkeys aren't cute, though.

A friend has a small poultry farm. She doesn't warm to the turkeys and likes the geese even less. She isn't cruel to them though.

She used to keep sheep and said at times they appear to look for inventive ways to maim and kill themselves. She likes the pigs though.

I agree. This goes with the other thread from last week about hating the word meal. It should appear in the Lexicon Of Shame.

People don't tend to say 'the bird' about chickens, or ducks or anything else except turkeys, so why not just say turkey? It's not hard, is it?

YANBU.

"Bird" to me doesn't have food connotations, it sounds like it still has feathers and is squawking and flapping around. It's not about being in denial about what it's made from either. Rather like you would call meat "meat" and not "animal", even though you know that's what it is.

"Turkeys aren't cute, though."

They are striking looking animals, that still feel pain and stress, though.

How you can not like geese, though, unless they are chasing you, I don't know.

I was scrapping up a half digested rat that my cat had left on my path, it still had the head attached. My meat eating neighbour went all hysterical. I don't understand the difference about what you eat, keep as pets and are happy to kill, tbh.

My Son In Law (who was ordering Steak) was explaining what a Topside Steak was in a restaurant, to my DD's BF, who hadn't tried one before, that he was ordering, he was snapped at by another diner (who was then told tough).

If you are going to eat animals, at least have the decency to know how they have been bred, treated, killed and the by products disposed of.

That's not true joy. Turkey is more specific, and chicken, and duck.

Yanbu

It's not a meat eater / vegetarian thing, it's a pretentious use of language thing.

Agree heartily, catellington. It ranks with saying "supper".

At the other end of the scale I shudder when I hear people (or adverts/downmarket magazines) say "roasties" or "Brussels". In fact I more than shudder, I feel unreasonably homicidal.

YANBU OP.
I've only heard it said on TV though - xmas cooking. Sort of ''while the bird is cooking you can do XYZ ...''. The word bird being used to cover turkey, goose, duck, chicken, quail, whatever.

I've not heard anyone in RL saying 'bird'. It would seem odd.

We have duck or beef. And that's what we call it. Not the bird or the mammal

and 'cruet' gets on my tits as well.

There's definitely something wrong with grown ups standing around at christmas saying 'this birds well stuffed' or 'what a moist bird'

Bird's

just what is wrong with the word "supper"?

it's just another word for your evening meal and plenty of people use it.
or is it another class thing?

I don't know why but I don't like it because my dad always called my step mum his 'bird'. So saying 'the bird is in the oven' creates a weird image in my mind.

Save a turkey and put men who refer to women as 'birds' in the oven instead.

Dh uses the phrase the bird when we are cooking a whole chicken or turkey, never when roasting chicken quarters etc

You don't put a whole cow in the oven hence the phrase not being used.

YABU.

People put lamb in the oven....fish in the oven...turkey, chicken and goose in the oven...bird is no different.

My Dsis always told her DC what they were eating ie, "who would like some dead cow?"

One of them became vegetaria, one is a confirmed meat eater.