> >> > 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? > > Literally "earth apples", no "pommes de cheval". >
Not forgetting pommes de pin (which are not pineapples!), pommes de salade, pommes d'arrosoir, and pommes d'Adam. You might find some of them a bit hard to swallow, though. Bob -- 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.
