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wxfrog
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Doesn't "vermelho" mean beef as well? Doesn't liking beef make more sense in a sentence than liking "red"?
Vermelho in this case would only be used alone if the question was which kind of meat they like/want, etc. Alone in a conversation without previous mention of meat, it would only mean the color red.
The working class people that I grew up with very rarely called beef red meat, just carne de vaca. Or músculo! I still remember being astonished when my friend ordered X kg of músculo at the meat counter, and she received ground beef (no fat:)! I thought it would have been called carne moída, which i believe can also be correct.