American: “Have french people never eaten a good apple?”
Frenchman: “Have Americans never enjoyed a tasty potato?”
Potatoes are indeed tasty. Some varieties are even sweet-ish. I can’t say I’ve had potatoes that were as sweet as apples, without the addition of a lot of sugar.
Grosse Pomme is New York
Smell is actually a big component of taste. Everything in france smells like armpits and rotten cheese, and there is dogshit literally everywhere that no one cleans up. So potatos and apples taste the same to them-- just like a mix of armpits and old dogshit… This is also how they can stand to eat snails, they also just taste like armpit/dogshit, same as everything else.
They are also all very tired because their coffees are served in very very small cups, like at a little girls tea party.
Everyone smokes there too, even the children, so everyone also has cigrarette ashy-mouth 24/7.
It also explains why they think their food is the best in the world when its actually just barely passable. They cant taste it.
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?
I pronounce is Pin-eap-ples, just to avoid this very thing.
But, at least they’re fruit.
We also have a potato-like : word “patate”. “Pomme de terre” is déformation of “parmetière” from the name of M.Parmentier who introduce potatoes to the french population.
Really? That’s fantastic! I didn’t know that. How awesome!
And orange is a Chinese apple
Herdöpfel (stove/cooking apple) in Swiss german. Kartoffel in germany. Guess there’s some variety, since it’s a relatively new crop.
Have a look at how some early apple varieties looked like, before they were cultivated:
https://birdsongorchards.com/pages/welcome-to-wondrous-diversity-of-heirloom-apples
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
That’s an interesting theory. Maybe ancient humans didn’t have a sense of taste.
Ancient humans? Europe didn’t have potatoes until they were imported from the Americas in the 1600s. Conversely, the Americas didn’t have apples. So it would basically be impossible for anyone before the Colombian exchange to have eaten both of these fruits.
Well Italians call tomatoes golden apples
Let the language which is without sin cast the first stone.
How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?
Maybe context.
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.
My point was, I think they would both be pommes frites.
Sounds delicious
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.
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.
Look, we’re talking people who call ninety-nine “four twenty ten nine”; you can’t expect them to name things properly.
To be fair, English has a bit of that too if you look at the first 20 digits
One, two, three… Eleven, twelve, thirteen… Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three… Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three…
If English was fully decimal the teens would simply be “Onety-one, onety-two, onety-three” but it’s not because fuck following conventions!
If you say onety one again we’re gonna have problems
good tasting apples are a relatively recent thing. They are one of the fruits where a good tasting one is rare and then has to propagated with grafts. Apples that grow from seed are not that great and before a certain point was mainly turned into cider and vinegar and such.
How recent? Like, New World recent, or Christianity recent, or the-invention-of-writing recent?
I think not much older than the new world. 1700’s or so and I don’t think there was widespread cultivation until the 20th century.
Johnny Appleseed was a real guy, but he was doing his thing in the late 1700’s. Apples from grafting were pretty good eating, by then; trees grown from seed were mostly only good for making cider.
They do make an apple sound when you crunch or slice them so i can see the link
