cow meat / cow's meat

[sb70012]

Hello friends,

Which one is correct?

Cow meat
or
Cow's meat

For example:
I love cow's meat.
I love cow meat.

Thank you

 

[bhaisahab]

Hello friends,

Which one is correct?

Cow meat
or
Cow's meat

For example:
I love cow's meat.
I love cow meat.

Thank you

Neither one is correct.

 

[Rover_KE]

I love beef.

 

[sb70012]

Thanks for answering but what if we say "deer" instead of "cow"?

I mean,

I love deer meat.
I love deer's meat.

 

[emsr2d2]

I love venison. (Note: that statement is not true!)

 

[sb70012]

What if there is no word to mean a meat of a specific animal?

 

[emsr2d2]

I suggest you Google "[name of animal] meat" and see how long it takes you to find one that doesn't have a name. Obviously, this only applies to animals which are generally eaten. I am not suggesting that you will find a word for the flesh of an elephant when used as a foodstuff.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Hello friends,

Which one is correct?

Cow meat
or
Cow's meat

For example:
I love cow's meat.
I love cow meat.

Thank you

One you could use is "goat meat". I would not use the possessive form (goat's).

 

[emsr2d2]

One you could use is "goat meat". I would not use the possessive form (goat's).

You could but in BrE, that's "mutton".

 

[MikeNewYork]

You could but in BrE, that's "mutton".

Not in the US as afar as I know. At least I have never heard it called "mutton".

 

[sb70012]

Not in the US as afar as I know. At least I have never heard it called "mutton".

Thanks for answering. What about "venison"? I mean have you heard it in the US or you have not heard it like "mutton"?

 

[Barb_D]

As an American, I would have said that "mutton" was sheep and only sheep, not goat. But then, I don't eat goat meat.

How would you differentiate sheep from goat if you just said "mutton" in the UK?

 

[emsr2d2]

I think I just saw on Wikipedia that in the US it might be called "chevon", but I don't know if that's regional.

 

[emsr2d2]

In the UK, we tend to refer to any meat from a lamb/sheep as "lamb". Technically, it refers only to the meat from a baby sheep, but most Brits don't differentiate.

 

[Rover_KE]

See also this recent thread.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Thanks for answering. What about "venison"? I mean have you heard it in the US or you have not heard it like "mutton"?

We have venison here. It is served in some very fancy restaurants.

 

[SoothingDave]

We have venison here. It is served in some very fancy restaurants.

But I have some deer meat in my freezer. Nothing fancy about it.

 

[Tdol]

How would you differentiate sheep from goat if you just said "mutton" in the UK?

I disagree a bit with some of the BrE answers here. I use mutton for meat from an adult sheep, and goat for meat from a goat. I think the mutton for both is more South Asian. I have never heard it used that way in the UK, though others may have. And lamb is only meat from the baby sheep for me.