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?

Wiz@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fried apples? Maybe that’s a Texas thing, or Scottish, but it wouldn’t be a source of confusion in France because they’d take your passport away if you tried frying an apple.

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  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    French people do eat apple beignets, which are basically fried apples.

    If you’ve never had one before, apple beignets are easy to make and delicious, plenty of recipes around.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s right I guess, but at least in a beignet there’s a bit of preparation involved, I was picturing just whole fried apples or maybe like french fries but made of apple, but you’re right I guess beignet counts.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fried apples are sliced into small pieces and cooked with butter, cinnamon, and stuff. They’re quite good. It’s not a battered and deep fried thing. Frying covers a large range of cooking styles.

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  • SouthFresh@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But only an apple they’d picked themselves or received from a trusted supplier with legible labeling, since it otherwise might be a potato.

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hey, that’s a good point. Fried apples might me sweeter than fried potatoes, but they’d be much more similar than in other forms. Frying tends to bring out the sweetness in carbs.

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  • Wiz@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My point was, I think they would both be pommes frites.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds delicious

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      • Wiz@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re not wrong!

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