@Concerned_Catgirl "pomme de pin" is more like a pinecone in french :)
@Concerned_Catgirl [americans deciding how to call this thing]
"it looks like a football. kinda like some sorta football shaped apple or some shit"
well most folks are calling it ananas so-
"it also has like some tree looking shit comin out the top like some sorta pine tree"
yeah but-
"football shrub"
y'know maybe lets just call it a pineapple
IIRC it was actually a corruption of something else -- whoever named them was from a time where EVERYTHING was getting called a something-apple, and the spiky stuff reminded them of pine trees, I want to say?
while this sounds derangedly unrealistic IIRC this is roughly how it went
truth is stranger than fiction, etc. etc., but like quadruply so
didn't know! interesting
IIRC archaic French had 'pomme de terre', which was potato
(and apparently 'pomme frites' is less archaic for 'french fries', since, I mean, in France, 'french fries' is meaningless)
(and 'french fries' referred to the cut, they were 'frenched', it had nothing to do with fucking France anyway)
(the point is: language is a surreal weirdness mess)
@Concerned_Catgirl this is legitimately very angering to me. The wool has been over my eyes this whole time