Editing Goose (section)

== In popular culture ==

=== Sayings and phrases that reference geese ===
* To "have a gander" is to look at something.
* {{anchor|sauce}} "What's good sauce for the goose is good sauce for the gander" or "What's good for the goose is good for the gander" means that what is an appropriate treatment for one person is equally appropriate for someone else.  This statement supporting equality is frequently used in the context of sex and gender, because a goose is female and a gander is male.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Warhol |first1=Tom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkepQQWk-TQC&dq=%22sauce+for+the+goose%22+gender&pg=PA210 |title=Birdwatcher's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Advice, Insight, and Information for Enthusiastic Birders |last2=Schneck |first2=Marcus |date=2010-10-01 |publisher=Quarry Books |isbn=978-1-61059-399-1 |pages=210 |language=en}}</ref>
* Saying that someone's "goose is cooked" means that they are about to be punished.<ref name=":2" />
* The common phrase "silly goose" is used when referring to someone who is acting particularly silly.<ref name=":2" />
* "[[The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs|Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs]]", derived from [[Aesop's Fables]], is a saying referring to a greed-motivated action that destroys or otherwise renders useless a favourable situation that would have provided benefits over time.<ref name=":2" />
* "A wild goose chase" is a useless, futile waste of time and effort.  It is derived from a 16th-century horse racing event.<ref name=":2" />
* A raised, rounded area of swelling (typically a [[hematoma]]) caused by an impact injury is sometimes metaphorically called a "goose egg", especially if it occurs on the head.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Plummer |first1=Ellen S. |last2=Crary |first2=Shelley E. |last3=Buchanan |first3=George R. |date=2013 |title=Prominent forehead hematomas ("goose-eggs") as an initial manifestation of hemophilia |journal=The Journal of Pediatrics |volume=163 |issue=6 |pages=1781–1783 |doi=10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.07.012|pmid=23968747 }}</ref>

=== Geese as characters in cultural works ===
* [[Mother Goose]] is a fictitious children's storybook author associated with several collections of fairy tales and nursery rhymes translated into English during the 18th century.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tsurumi |first=Ryoji |date=1990 |title=The Development of Mother Goose in Britain in the Nineteenth Century  |journal=Folklore |volume=101 |issue=1 |pages=28–35 |doi=10.1080/0015587X.1990.9715776 |jstor=1259881 }}</ref>
* ''Gänsewein'' (German, {{Literal translation|Goose wine}}<abbr>)</abbr> is a playful term for plain drinking water, first documented the ''Podagrammisch Trostbüchlein'' by [[Johann Fischart]] (1577).<ref>''[https://www.beverage-world.com/en/newsdetail/goose-wine-do-geese-live-in-germany-like-god-in-france Goose wine - Do geese live in Germany like God in France?]'', Birkner's Beverage World, July 25, 2022</ref>
* Popular [[indie game]] [[Untitled Goose Game]] released in 2019 chronicles the activities of an ornery goose in an English village.
* In the late 18th century poem, [[The Goose and the Common]], geese serve to illustrate the social and economic issues cased by the [[enclosure]] of [[Commons|common]] land.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boyle |first=James |date=2003 |title=The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain |url=http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=470983 |journal=SSRN Electronic Journal |language=en |doi=10.2139/ssrn.470983 |issn=1556-5068|hdl=10535/3443 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

==="Gray Goose Laws" in Iceland===

The oldest collection of [[Icelandic Commonwealth|Medieval Icelandic]] laws is known as ''"Grágás"''; i.e., the ''[[Gray Goose Laws]]''. Various etymologies were offered for that name:
* The fact that the laws were written with a goose quill;
* The fact that the laws were bound in goose skin;
* Because of the age of the laws — it was then believed that geese lived longer than other birds.<ref>Boulhosa, Patricia Press. "The Law of Óláfr inn Helgi." In ''Icelanders and the Kings of Norway: Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts''. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2005.</ref><ref>Byock, Jesse L., ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A4S6Bnw3HnkC Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power]'', Berkeley: University of California, 1990</ref><ref>Byock, Jesse L. "Grágás: ''The 'Grey Goose' Law'' in ''Viking Age Iceland'' London: Penguin, 2001.</ref>