Everything is an apple, it seems. You also have earth apples (pomme de terre in ...

Agentlien 44 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

Everything is an apple, it seems. You also have earth apples (pomme de terre in French, aardappel in Dutch) for potatoes, grenade apples (pomegranate in English, granatäpple in Swedish, ...), pineapple, ...

xattt 44 days ago [–]

It helps that Latin has the word pomus for fruit.