SERIOUSLY?! OK, there's something else I never knew. Obviously, I knew about "white meat" but I never considered the fact that anyone could be offended by the word "breast". Goodness, what a bizarre world we live in.
Ah, but this was long before political correcness had been invented, at a time when tables and chairs had to have 'limbs' not 'legs' in polite society. Even in the early twentieth century, at a performance of Synge's playboy of the Western World', the "audience broke up in disorder at the word 'shift'" ( woman's undergarment) (Free Term Papers on Consider The Position Of Women In J.M.Synge)