What's a potato?
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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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
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Does this person know nothing.
fun fact, in dutch a potato is called an earth-apple
I believe also in French, 'pomme de terre'.
That is correct.
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.
At one point in time, all fruit/vegetable was called "apple."
sounds confusing
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That counterargument is stupid. Apples have been known since ancient times (in the old world) while potatoes had to be imported from the new world. If they were the same, then their common ancestor would have to have traveled with the first Africans to leave for the Americas way before the invention of agriculture 10000BC.
It's not just stupid, it's false.
Humans are just upright fish
“This has been today’s lesson in talking about politics on Lemmy”
Vegetable is a political (lower case P) term, defined by legislation for tax purposes.
Tomato is clearly a fruit botanically but classified as a vegetable in the United States (and most countries) and is taxed at a lower amount than fruits.
I know this is rude, but why are they using AI logic?
yudkowsky's an AI researcher.