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.

Winner. I'd forgotten about that.

Something thankfully not all French-speaking countries agree. But the ground apple is pretty much universal. The alternative "patate" is also widely used,

Stuff from the "new world" (Americas) often got some weird names. Like the "Indian chickens" (turkeys).

“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

So this means moonshine is apple juice?

"Apple" is Old English for "fruit", not specifically apple.

And apparently "pineapple" for the tropical fruit predates "pine cone", OE used "pine nut".

Earliest use of "pineapple" is 14th century translation for "pomegranate".

Probably to avoid confusion with bananas?

In Dutch, a potato is called aardappel, which literally translates to "earth apple" (aarde meaning "earth" and appel meaning "apple").

Now we just use fruit.

Unless, incident, you're talking of a Chinese Grapefruit, also know as Pomelo.

I recently learned grenadine is called that because it used to be made from pomegranate juice, NOT because it was from Grenada.

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Well are you going to tell us?

Wait until you hear about 90 pomegranates

four twentie

Ayy lmao.

Yup, pommes de terre. In Dutch is "aardappel", which is more literally earthapple. But I will add, the apple part isn't referring to the fruit, but means more like "a spherical object".

Also the French used aardappel to create the word pomme de terre for it in 1716, as they couldn't pronounce the Dutch word.