𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 27 days 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-square188fedilinkarrow-up1370arrow-down126
arrow-up1344arrow-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 · 27 days agomessage-square188fedilink
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·27 days agoeighty potatoes … french translation -> … “quatre-vingts pommes de terre” (four twenties of earth apples)
eighty potatoes … french translation -> … “quatre-vingts pommes de terre” (four twenties of earth apples)
Ayy lmao.
And that’s terrible…