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minus-squarefunkless_ecklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months 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”
minus-square🧟♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoPotatoes weren’t introduced to europeans in the antiquity
minus-squarefunkless_ecklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI 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.
to 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”
Potatoes weren’t introduced to europeans in the antiquity
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.