𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 11 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-square59fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down19
arrow-up1156arrow-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 · 11 hours agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up67arrow-down1·9 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-squareDaze@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoSo this means moonshine is apple juice?
minus-squareIsoprenoidlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·8 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
“apple” used to be a generic term for fruit. So it’s actually “fruit of the earth”, the French are poetic like that
So this means moonshine is apple juice?
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.