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The language has stagnated in many areas. Meat is flesh.

Maybe we can call vegetable products that try to emulate meat: veat, in English anyway. There's probably already a term that has fallen out of common usage, maybe we can look it up.

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> The language has stagnated in many areas. Meat is flesh.

The soft part of a fruit or a plant that you eat is also called flesh.

The soft part of a nut that you eat from inside the shell that you is called nutmeat.

In English we've used 'meaty' words to describe plants for over a century.

And soy and almond milk has been called as such for centuries. We call lots of inedible white saps milk too.

It seems to me that there's a long history of using "meat" and "flesh" for things that don't come from animals. For example, the common name for the edible solid and liquid parts of coconuts are the coconut meat and milk respectively. More broadly, it's common to refer to the pulpy edible part of fruits as the fruit's "meat" or "flesh" respectively.

There are also lots of people who don't recognize meat from fish as meat for some reason.

Other examples of food names that could be misleading or where changed for marketing purposes: orange roughy, Chilean sea bass, headcheese, mountain oysters, crab sticks, fruit leather, black pudding, and astronaut ice cream.

> veat

Pronounced as wheat? Pick something else please.

not OP but: pronounced as as veat, as in vegetable. They were clear to say for English speakers.

Many people refer to the flesh of the fruit vs the skin vs the seed.

Good idea; bad example.

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