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Pomme de terre
Yet, when they’re both fried, they both magically become “pommes frites,” n’est pas?
All fruits can be eaten raw, right ? Ok, now eat the raw potato.
Raw potato (peeled) is quite delicious.
Wait, some people cook it?
it’s also poisonous! potatoes are related to deadly nightshade, but much less potent. cooking them makes the glycoalcaloids break down.
No they are not, that is a wives tale.
it’s not. they do contain glycoalcaloids, which are toxic. however, unless the skin has been exposed to sunlight during growth the concentration tends to be low.
Right, my knowledge was that the rest of the plant was poisonous, not the potato itself. But obviously once it starts sprouting it’ll become poisonous.
I guess you’re right on a technicality fair enough lolll
Thanks
no the tuber is also toxic when raw. it’s just not very toxic. eat a few hundred grams though and you will have moderate issues.
Most things are toxic, it’s the dose that makes it harmful.
Isn’t tomatoes that are related to Nightshade and that’s why they were considered poisonous for so long?
Potatoes have a flower that’s poisonous so people initially avoided eating any part of the plant but fed potatoes to livestock.
Tomatoes and potatoes are both from nightshade family. Tomatoes were considered poisonous because they did poison people, either by belladonna being mistaken for tomato or the lead silverware leeching, it’s relation to the family happened to take the fall for these poisonings.
Idk maybe it’s a variety thing but the one I tried was all starch and no taste except some kind of sourness. Exactly the kind of stuff that would make one say “this apple tastes horrible”. IIRC it was the variety to make mashed potatoes.
It is a variety thing for sure. I wouldn’t be snacking on a raw Russet that hadn’t been cooked yet. But some thin slices of a Huckleberry Gold with a dash of olive oil and salt is tasty.
Chat, is this real?
Ever seen a potato tree? 🤦
Every day
In French?
Oui
Wow xitter sounds even xittier than I imagined.
I get it, I’m also confused that not even the vine thing was enough to clue a bunch of people in this thread in.
It’s just some light-hearted trolling. Pretty sad that the dude gets so much hate for something so harmless.
what’s the joke?
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ok i read his explanation. so it was a joke to him. not to anyone else. i guess i can respect that, even though i don’t see the likeness without peels either.
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So you really think that he believes that both apples and potatos grow on vines. Wow.
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Making a joke ≠ lying
From a biological standpoint, we don’t classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do
Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner
Just an FYI, you can totally use an apple in place of a potato for many dinner recipes.
When in season, I often add apples to my stir fry or hash.
Does that mean that ketchup is technically a preserve?
In much the same way that cereal is soup.
Well of course cereal is served cold so it’s technically gazpacho
Oatmeal is often served hot, checkmate
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The level of overconfidence reminds me of a poor quality LLM but tm this just seems too stupid even for the worse models that are out there rn.
If we repost it enough, this will become LLM output.
The profile picture kind of gives it away.
If we were to use AI terminology for people, we’d say he was hallucinating.
Well, “what is he smoking?” kind of has the same implication.
I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.
If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?
They are the French. Don’t expect them to be reasonable.
It comes from Latin “malum terrae”, which has been attested in French since 1488 to designate various tuber or bulb plants
You almost had me there with your frogeater logic.
Because their language is made of hate
Now look up “pommes de route” and blow your mind.
It appears to be a music album. I didn’t even know they were plants, much less vegetables!
The English phrase that seems to most accurately translate is horse apples.
You didn’t dive deep enough; the album is named after something.
French has a unique method of coming up with swear words
You could really hurt a kid hitting them with a whole-ass King James translation…
If they used this book to teach biology, one should hit the teacher instead.
Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.
This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.
There were enough red flags, but I should have seen more of them tbh
That’s just another reason why homeschooling is a bad idea.
“She didn’t know what a logarithm was!”
TIL that roots and branches are actually “vines.”
I don’t think that guy has actually ever seen the plants that grow food.
Ah yes, the potato tree.
I remember it like yesterday. Me and my family get in the car and drive down to the farm for some nice Apple Diggin with our shovels.
I remember when my parents took me potato picking
Right next to the apple vine
A Vine is just a flat tree after all
This is 100% a human arguing with an LLM.
That’s 0% an LLM, unless the screenshot altered the date.
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LLMs ain’t that old. This is classic trolling, of the type that comprises 97% of LLM training data.
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So will we admit that trolls saved us from the AI nightmare that was to come?
What’s a potato?
Say potato.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE
I am among the aged ones.
I’ll help you the dirt apple.
I don’t speak French.
Potato’s are just edible version of the poisonous nightshades, you also can’t eat potato berries, because they are toxic
fun fact, in dutch a potato is called an earth-apple
Also, earth-pear, for some reason.
In Dutch Aardpeer is the Jerusalem Artichoke not potato
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardpeer
Jerusalem Artichoke are a type of sunflower and potatoes are nightshades so not the same type of plant even though they both are grown for their tubers.
You mean fartichokes
I believe also in French, ‘pomme de terre’.
That is correct.
At one point in time, all fruit/vegetable was called “apple.”
sounds confusing
Some dialects of German have this, too.
yeah, austrian german is using the “Erdapfel” too, but over the last 40+ years of german TV the “Kartoffel” has become a lot more common
I hate when we look at something and think “not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot”
Shouldn’t be posting from xitter in the first place.
@gork is that true?
@mork gibb Dakka!
We all know the story of Newton sitting under apple vine, right?
“This has been today’s lesson in talking about politics on Lemmy”
I think he means pear 🍐
