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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoto be fair, that’s a modern take. in antiquity it was so ignoble it was given the generic name for a fruit/vegetable.
a modern version might be more akin to “dirt thing”
Comment on WHY
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoto be fair, that’s a modern take. in antiquity it was so ignoble it was given the generic name for a fruit/vegetable.
a modern version might be more akin to “dirt thing”
Ashiette@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Potatoes weren’t introduced to europeans in the antiquity
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I meant it colloquially - like a long time ago - but fair point. More accurately, it was introduced about 100-150 years before there was a linguistic trend for fruit to be called fruit and not apples.