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It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? (midwest.social)

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[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I grew up on a farm along a small river called the Pomme De Terre and we didn't grow potatoes. But we did have a potato lifter to harvest the 1/2 acre or so we would grow for our own consumption.

There was also a small county picnic area in the middle of nowhere by the same name. And no one knew why it was there.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

So you had a potato lifter that just sat there, still and silent, in case you ever decided to grow 1/2 acre of potatoes?