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
Tree-potatoes!
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.
And tomatoes are “love apples”
Which makes more sense, in a weird way.
How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?
Maybe context.
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.
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
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!
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.
::: lanzars una piedra :::
The English for “ananas” is “pineapple”, did the English really think they grew on pine trees?
Maybe! Who knows what those crazy British were thinking. At least a pineapple is a fruit, and I can easily believe that the namers had never seen anything but crude drawings of a pineapple tree, and not having experience with palm trees, thought they looked most like pines.
Or, maybe it’s derived from some misinterpretation of a Greek word, or something. English is a hodge-podge language of borrowed words.
Pineapples don’t grow on trees. Take that A’I’ slop somewhere else.
Those look closer to durian than pineapples tbh.
Have you ever had an apple of the sort they had when the word got its meaning?
They were closer to potatoes than you think.Doubt. I would expect Apples to have been more like crab apples which are very bitter. Raw potatoes are neutral.
I had a science book as a kids which had sensory experiments. You get a potato slice and apple slice, hold your nose and try both.
They taste the same if you can’t smell.
I’m not a time traveler, so no. Have you?
And can you bring me a dinosaur? Like, a triceratops would be nice, although a stegasaurus or argentinosaurus would do. A baby one would be ideal. Thanks.
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.
They do make an apple sound when you crunch or slice them so i can see the link
There was a time when “pomme” was used to name any fruit.
Now we just use fruit.
Unless, incident, you’re talking of a Chinese Grapefruit, also know as Pomelo.
