On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > eckinator wrote: > >> true. that is what us Germans plus the French and Belgians call them. >> short for pommes de terre frites. short because pommes means apples. > > And isn't "pommes de terre" in French the equivalent to "potato" in English? >
One thing the Quebecois got right was a reasonable name for the Potato, they call them Patates (and French Fries are Patates Frites, or just Frites) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
