The legend about Knight's steak

Boneless steak is an old, traditional English dish. And, as the legend assures us, it
was it that was elevated to the rank of a knight by one of the monarchs - either
Charles II, or Elizabeth I, or James I (most often this eccentric act is attributed to
the latter).

The legend is based on pure linguistics. In English, a steak is called a sirloin steak.
If you break the first word into two, you get "sir" - "sir" and "loin" - "fillet.

Rumors have been circulating in the county of Lancashire, and beyond its borders,
for several centuries that King James I, having arrived in 1617 for dinner at
Houghton Tower, near Preston, was so amazed by the steak served to him that he
immediately took out his sword from the scabbard, touched it to a piece of meat on
a dish and thus made this steak a knight.

Although the king did indeed stop there for supper with his entourage on the road
from Scotland to London, and perhaps even draw a sword, there is no evidence that
he even jokingly called the dish served to him "sir".

Moreover, the very word sirloin (or "knight's fillet") existed in the English
language already in the 16th century, long before James I was born.

Etymologists believe that the word is of French origin.

And the legend itself is as plausible as if someone claimed that the Filevskaya
branch of the Moscow metro is called so in honor of the butchers who once lived
there.