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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Meanwhile, in France:

"What's the roundish thing we eat a lot?"

"Apples?"

"No, the one that grows underground."

"Dirt apples?"

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

We call them "dirt beans" in Mandarin which is an improvement I guess?

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

iirc an "apple" in both French and English used to just be any fruit. And over time it shifted to mean just the most common one

and you know the french, always very poetic, of course they'll call a potato a fruit of dirt

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Erdäpfel!

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

Or like we call them "Äräpfl"