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I've been telling you for 30 years to get over it, maybe in 31 years 😢
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.
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How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?
Maybe context.
Hey, that's a good point. Fried apples might me sweeter than fried potatoes, but they'd be much more similar than in other forms. Frying tends to bring out the sweetness in carbs.
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Well apple is succulent stem of apple tree. Potato is succulent root of potato plant. Root is stem inside ground. Q.E.D.
I think this came from the fact that if you bit into an apple and a raw potato while holding your nose, they'd have the same exact taste and texture
That's an interesting theory. Maybe ancient humans didn't have a sense of taste.
Ancient humans? Europe didn't have potatoes until they were imported from the Americas in the 1600s. Conversely, the Americas didn't have apples. So it would basically be impossible for anyone before the Colombian exchange to have eaten both of these fruits.
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