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?

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• Wiz@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?

  Maybe context.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• medusa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And tomatoes are “love apples”

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which makes more sense, in a weird way.

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• vxx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Grosse Pomme is New York

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hans Grosse

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• thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well apple is succulent stem of apple tree. Potato is succulent root of potato plant. Root is stem inside ground. Q.E.D.

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• sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whew. Thanks for the /s. That was a comprehensive list of French stereotypes, though. Bravo.

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• starbrite@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think this came from the fact that if you bit into an apple and a raw potato while holding your nose, they’d have the same exact taste and texture

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s an interesting theory. Maybe ancient humans didn’t have a sense of taste.

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    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ancient humans? Europe didn’t have potatoes until they were imported.

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