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Herdöpfel (stove/cooking apple) in Swiss german. Kartoffel in germany. Guess there's some variety, since it's a relatively new crop.
Wait until you hear about pomegranates.
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I recently learned grenadine is called that because it used to be made from pomegranate juice, NOT because it was from Grenada.
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I thought it was more "apples of the Earth", n'est-ce pas?
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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No, it's like how apple juice is jus de pomme.
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Actually sounds like you've never had a fresh potato, pulled right out of the ground and eaten on the spot
I have never. Do they taste like apples?
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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They do make an apple sound when you crunch or slice them so i can see the link
eighty potatoes ..... french translation -> ... "quatre-vingts pommes de terre" (four twenties of earth apples)
four twentie
Ayy lmao.
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Well now "freedom fries" makes more sense. You know, like how apple pie is assosiated with the usa? So now it's freedom fries......anyone remember freedom fries?
......ok, no. It was always just stupid.
I think that was the shark-jumping Republican moment, when a bad trend suddenly became a free-fall into the idiocy the party is now.
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