Pourquoi n'existe-t-il pas d'autre mot pour la viande de cheval ?

Chops of horse meat with sauce... couldn't they think of another name? Photograph: Alamy

We have sheep, cow, pig and sheep and meat pork; Why is there not one word other than horse meat? The Normans don't eat? Their descendants have certainly are.

Steve Lupton, Prestwich, Lancs

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