𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 16 hours agoIt'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?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1194arrow-down111
arrow-up1183arrow-down1message-squareIt'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?𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 16 hours agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up80arrow-down1·13 hours ago“apple” used to be a generic term for fruit. So it’s actually “fruit of the earth”, the French are poetic like that
minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·12 hours ago “apple” used to be a generic term for fruit. Oh, that explains the myth that Adam and Eve at an apple, when a specific fruit is never mentioned. https://www.etymonline.com/word/apple
minus-squareDaze@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoSo this means moonshine is apple juice?
“apple” used to be a generic term for fruit. So it’s actually “fruit of the earth”, the French are poetic like that
Oh, that explains the myth that Adam and Eve at an apple, when a specific fruit is never mentioned.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/apple
That’s a bingo.
So this means moonshine is apple juice?