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[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] OleFoFa@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

They even dont recognise the potato as a seperate entity. They really just call them pomme de terre (ground apple) and job's a goodun.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ah but they're not potatoes there.... They're ground apples (that's the translation in case you've no French). Doesn't count. Big pharma got in on the naming after a campaign by doctors who didn't like them.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but that's like asking a potato to colonize the moon. The space moon.