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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?

dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

In a lot of languages the word for apple used to refer to all kinds of fruits, particularly new ones from more or less exotic lands. Pineapples also don’t look much like apples, do they?

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sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I pronounce is Pin-eap-ples, just to avoid this very thing.

But, at least they’re fruit.

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Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Pomme de terre (IIRC) is a sad version of a underground apple.

Pineapples look like a pinecone but with a sweet fruit inside. Makes sense to me.

Then again horse apples, i.e., horse shit doesn’t taste great at all. Then again, again: horse apples, the Osage Orange fruit, are inedible. Osage Orange is neither an apple or orange tree.

English 'tis a silly language.

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