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the italians: [pointing at 🍅] golden apple
me: i mean it is vaguely apple shaped
the french: [pointing at pomegranate] grenade apple
me: what
the french: [pointing at 🥔] earth apple
me: [crying] you can't just point at anything and call it an apple
the french: [pointing at 🍊] chinese apple
me: A CHINESE APPLE WOULD BE A MANDARIN
i wanted to at least blame the dutch for some of these but then it turned out the dutch kept getting their bad ideas from the french. @0xabad1dea i'm sorry for doubting your country
@hikari I find it very funny that I've ingeburgerd so hard people who know I'm from America refer to NL as "my country"
@0xabad1dea as a fellow transnational i could never deadstate you
joking aside, it's simply more fun this way
@hikari its apples all the way down
@hikari it's called grenade apple because it exploded when (over?)ripe, at least that's what they thought me
@hikari wait what
the hand grenade is called after the grenade apple, because it explodes the same way (the grenade apple explodes when falling on the ground, kinda splatters it's seed everywhere)
@eater ohh that makes sense. (btw, “grenade“ is a corruption “garnet” iirc, presumably they called it that because of the bright red colour of the juice)
@eater (WAIT i'm wrong. the granate part meant “has seeds” and “garnet” probably comes from « granate » not the other way round.)
@hikari the Dutch wiki sepculaates thst garnet is named after the grenade appel too, (mind in Dutch garnet is granaat, which also means, grenade)