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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 53 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Potatoes are definitely apples. The French call them "pommes de terre", apples of the earth. Ipso facto.

I will not be accepting questions at this time.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

The german term for horse shit is "horse apples", Pferdeäpfel. Proof that horses are really potatoes.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

That doesn't make sense. That makes horses apple trees not apples.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

As a Czech I find that utterly absurd.

We call it "doughnuts".

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Preposterous. You should get your head czeched.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

In Slovene we call them "horse figs."

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

That's funny, I call something else horse figs

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

In the US south,, we also call horse shit 'horse apples.' That's pretty cool, that the translation persisted.

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

TIL why the 'horse apple pie' I ate in grade school tasted like shit.

I thought I just didn't like eating horses.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

First thing that came to mind for me.

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

My brain autocorrected their mix-up of potatoes and tomatoes until I read your comment.