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It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? (midwest.social)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well Italians call tomatoes golden apples

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you ever bitten into a road apple?

People come up with funny names for things sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

OMG I love road apple pie!

That one's a euphemism, though. I don't think it counts. That's not the real name that normal (non-horse-people, all horse people are abnormal; I know, because I married one) use.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I thought it was more "apples of the Earth", n'est-ce pas?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Yup, pommes de terre. In Dutch is "aardappel", which is more literally earthapple. But I will add, the apple part isn't referring to the fruit, but means more like "a spherical object".

Also the French used aardappel to create the word pomme de terre for it in 1716, as they couldn't pronounce the Dutch word.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Wait until you hear about pomegranates.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

💣

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Herdöpfel (stove/cooking apple) in Swiss german. Kartoffel in germany. Guess there's some variety, since it's a relatively new crop.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually sounds like you've never had a fresh potato, pulled right out of the ground and eaten on the spot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have never. Do they taste like apples?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No not at all but a good one has a nice crunch to it, kinda like a water chestnut, and they can make a nice snap sound like an apple

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

They do make an apple sound when you crunch or slice them so i can see the link

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

eighty potatoes ..... french translation -> ... "quatre-vingts pommes de terre" (four twenties of earth apples)

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