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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As a Czech I find that utterly absurd.

We call it "doughnuts".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Preposterous. You should get your head czeched.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In Slovene we call them "horse figs."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's funny, I call something else horse figs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

What do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

I thought I just didn't like eating horses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

First thing that came to mind for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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