True Blue --now "CHICKEN"

Tue Nov 14 19:29:05 UTC 2006

Those French dishes professing to contain "coq" probably DON'T, really?  Or can "coq" refer to Gallic galli and gallinae of every sex?

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:05:38 -0500
>From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>Subject: Re: True Blue --now "CHICKEN"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>Does some faint memory tell me that cooked elderly Galli are not called "chickens"?  What's the case in French (from which, as Wamba said, come all English words for what's on the table rather than what's on the farm)?
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>Joel

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