Comment on 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?

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• superkret@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Swabian word Grombira comes from literally “ground pear”

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  • ElmarsonTheThird@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Grumbern” is the same in parts of Frankonia.

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• BonerMan@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isnt that most common in Austria

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  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s my understanding. Though I have only visited the Kartoffel regions myself.

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    • BonerMan@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know the Germans near the Czech border are also calling it erdapfel sometimes but in southern Bavaria and Austria it’s the norm from my experience.

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  • Miphera@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m in Bavaria, and my grandparents used to say Erdapfel, though for any generations after that I’ve only ever heard them say Kartoffel.

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s probably the Germans living near French, who’ve had bad influences.

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