daniel on Nostr: In some languages, the word for potato translates to “ground apples” (that’s ...
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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