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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

American: "Have french people never eaten a good apple?"

Frenchman: "Have Americans never enjoyed a tasty potato?"

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think "ground apples" would better apply to jicama.

Dug up from the ground, somewhat sweet, can be eaten raw or cooked, apple-like in texture...

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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile in Quebec, they call them patates

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not just French

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well now "freedom fries" makes more sense. You know, like how apple pie is assosiated with the usa? So now it's freedom fries......anyone remember freedom fries?

......ok, no. It was always just stupid.

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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well Italians call tomatoes golden apples

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

While having two words for blue because "they look different"

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And orange is a Chinese apple

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We also have a potato-like : word "patate". "Pomme de terre" is déformation of "parmetière" from the name of M.Parmentier who introduce potatoes to the french population.

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's actually not true, 'ground apple' is a common name for different sorts of tubers in a number of different languages, going back to the latin 'malum terrae'.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That is news to me. Never thought to dig too deeply into my French studies in middle and high school (two decades ago), and so "apple of the earth" was just appropriate. Like, yeah, why wouldn't it be apple of the earth?

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[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I grew up on a farm along a small river called the Pomme De Terre and we didn't grow potatoes. But we did have a potato lifter to harvest the 1/2 acre or so we would grow for our own consumption.

There was also a small county picnic area in the middle of nowhere by the same name. And no one knew why it was there.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So you had a potato lifter that just sat there, still and silent, in case you ever decided to grow 1/2 acre of potatoes?

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