In some languages, the word for potato translates to “ground apples” (that’s how we got the French word “pommes frites”), which always makes me wonder if the first person to discover them thought, “These apples are growing in the ground! And they taste like dirt! What should we call them?”

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The other nightshade family of food stuff the Tomatoe, in Gaelic are called love apples.

I love this, and I had no idea!

😮 wow

Are we talking about this ->🥔?

And call him apple, how are you ->🍎?

Here we called: papa 🥔😊

Actually, the root of "apple"/"pommes" just meant fruit. It only later specialized to mean 🍎. So, not "ground apples" but "fruit of the earth".