Submitted by John Laidlaw on February 20, 2018, at 11:12
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From the French list: mutton, pork, poultry, venison - much of this came onto English with the Normans - just a bit of "social cachet" for the sheep, pigs, birds and deer we'd been eating (and now off our diet?)