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That's standard talk in our family, after my brother once described a Sunday dinner as "dead pig and roots". Interesting linguistic trivia; beasts have Anglo-Saxon names in the field but Anglo-Norman ones on the table.
Cattle => beef (boeuf)
Sheep => mutton (mouton)
Swine => pork (porc)

Due to French being the language of the oppressive Norman overlords.
There's a good book called 'Words apart: The language of prejudice' by Jonathon Green which may appeal to you...