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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In German, the fruits you would put in a fruit salat are called Obst

A salad works, but isn't it easier to just snort it? :^)

Sorry for the shitty joke above. Seriously now: after a quick check, apparently the cognate of "Obst" still exists in English, as "ovest". Nowadays only used dialectally for nuts like acorns being fed to the pigs. It would be fun if it was reintroduced as "culinary fruit", following the German example, and keeping the Latin borrowing "fruit" for the botanical def.