This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
you’re right about beef coming from bœuf, that’s because the norman conquest of britain in 1066 changed / added a lot of the vocabulary, for example lots of the words for meat are derived from old french (beef – bœuf, poultry – poule), and the words for the animal have germanic roots (cow – coo, no idea about chicken tbh), since the economic divide between farmers and aristocrats was also a linguistic divide
you’re right about beef coming from bœuf, that’s because the norman conquest of britain in 1066 changed / added a lot of the vocabulary, for example lots of the words for meat are derived from old french (beef – bœuf, poultry – poule), and the words for the animal have germanic roots (cow – coo, no idea about chicken tbh), since the economic divide between farmers and aristocrats was also a linguistic divide