veal

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Editorial note

That calf is immediately separated from its mother, and usually shipped straight into a veal crate.

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Quick take

The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

verb

To raise a calf for meat production.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for veal.

noun

The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

verb

To raise a calf for meat production.

noun

A surname.

noun

(slang, vulgar) The female genitalia.

Example sentences

That calf is immediately separated from its mother, and usually shipped straight into a veal crate.

The male calves go on to be veal or low grade meat or animal food.

So chances are you'll have prepared veal from the male calf at the same time as its mother is producing milk.

Pork instead of pig, veal instead of baby cow, beef instead of adult cow, etc.

The other 95% will benefit from being freed from their veal cubicles and looking up at human faces while walking around.

Are your arms thin and pale - kinda like a good piece of veal?

This takes the (usually veal) stock, concentrates flavours further with tomatoes, mushrooms and a standard mirepoix but adds a roux to thicken it.

For this example, lets put two programmers, Jeff and Mutt, in open cubicles next to each other in a standard Dilbert veal-fattening farm.

Pajata [1] is unweaned veal intestines, and contain a cheese-like substance.

Do you think a professional chef would be uncritical of this hypothetical veal if someone came in off the street with it looking for a job?

I was particularly taken by an interview I heard (NPR probably, was years ago) about a rancher who raises high-end free-range veal.

Any male calves are sold off for meat (usually veal which in some countries consists of considerably cruel rearing practices -- if not used for veal they're just shot) and the female calves are used to continue the milk herd.

Quote examples

Do you really want your first reaction, before tasting it, to be, “I hope the wine in the veal sauce is authentic French Merlot!” This is a deeply flawed analogy.

Many of the best developers I worked with at Big Co, after our "cubification" (or "veal-ification", as it were), spent numerous hours in the evening actually getting the meat of their design and programming work done, at home.

[0] and afaik culinary names come from the corresponding animal's name in french: beef comes from boeuf (~ox, a castrated bos taurus male), pork from porc, veal is veau, mutton is mouton and venison is venaison (replaced by "gibier" in modern french).