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?

• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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