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?

• Miphera@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • BonerMan@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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