英语词汇white meat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

white meat. A Victorian term still often used in America for the breast meat of a chicken or turkey, which the British call breast. “May I have some breast?” Winston Churchill once asked his American hostess at a buffet luncheon. “In this coun- try, Mr. Churchill, we say white meat or dark meat,” his hostess replied, a little prissily. Churchill apologized and the next day sent her an orchid along with a card reading, “I would be most obliged if you would pin this on your white meat.” White meat and dark meat are also derogatory slang terms applied to white or black men and women, usually in a sexual sense.

词汇	white meat
词源	white meat. A Victorian term still often used in America for the breast meat of a chicken or turkey, which the British call breast. “May I have some breast?” Winston Churchill once asked his American hostess at a buffet luncheon. “In this coun- try, Mr. Churchill, we say white meat or dark meat,” his hostess replied, a little prissily. Churchill apologized and the next day sent her an orchid along with a card reading, “I would be most obliged if you would pin this on your white meat.” White meat and dark meat are also derogatory slang terms applied to white or black men and women, usually in a sexual sense.
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