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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

American: "Have french people never eaten a good apple?"

Frenchman: "Have Americans never enjoyed a tasty potato?"

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think "ground apples" would better apply to jicama.

Dug up from the ground, somewhat sweet, can be eaten raw or cooked, apple-like in texture...

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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile in Quebec, they call them patates

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And orange is a Chinese apple

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Not just French

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well Italians call tomatoes golden apples

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

While having two words for blue because "they look different"

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well now "freedom fries" makes more sense. You know, like how apple pie is assosiated with the usa? So now it's freedom fries......anyone remember freedom fries?

......ok, no. It was always just stupid.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

That's actually not true, 'ground apple' is a common name for different sorts of tubers in a number of different languages, going back to the latin 'malum terrae'.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

That is news to me. Never thought to dig too deeply into my French studies in middle and high school (two decades ago), and so "apple of the earth" was just appropriate. Like, yeah, why wouldn't it be apple of the earth?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Really? That's fantastic! I didn't know that. How awesome!

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

I've been telling you for 30 years to get over it, maybe in 31 years 😢

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Herdöpfel (stove/cooking apple) in Swiss german. Kartoffel in germany. Guess there's some variety, since it's a relatively new crop.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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.

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