• morhp@lemmy.wtf
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    1 year ago

    “most” would be an exaggeration, but many are. Other animals commonly used in placeholder names are also horse, chicken and lion.

    Pig was just the most common meat animal, so any unknown animal that you’d eat would he called an xyz pig. Apple was also used like this for all kinds of fruits and vegetables:

    orange = Chinese apple

    tomato = golden apple (?)

    pomegranate = granate apple

    potato = earth apple

    jimsonweed = thorn apple

    And so on