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Can someone please explain the "fried potatoes are better with onion"? Is this an in-joke? A secret key? Many potatoes, -l

zitterbewegung 10y ago
Onion routing probably. TOR stands for the onion router .
- lorenzop 10y ago
  YES! get in lads
catfood 10y ago
Eastern Europe eats a lot of potatoes. Onion = Onion Router
erikpukinskis 10y ago
It's just a good reminder.
notdang 10y ago
From wikipedia: In the Soviet Union, Belarusians were sometimes called bulbashi, a pejorative conjugation of the Belarusian word for potato.
- tetromino_ 10y ago
  That's because Belarusians eat a lot of potatoes. The per capita potato consumption there is probably the highest in the world: http://www.fao.org/potato-2008/en/world/ http://www.fao.org/potato-2008/en/world/
- tomjakubowski 10y ago
  Funny, I was just reading about how non-German residents of Germany use "Kartoffel" (potato) as a perjorative for Germans in Germany. I didn't realize "potato" was such an effective insult it would exist in another country too!
  - lucb1e 10y ago
    In Dutch we say aardappel (earth apple; means potato) to stupid people, not Germans in particular as far as I knew. It might originate from that, I don't know. Wat een aardappel! "What a dummy!"
    - breakingcups 10y ago
      I've never said that.
      - cgvgffyv 10y ago
        You're 20, he's 45. Or he's even more of a nerd than you.
        lucb1e 10y ago
        Nah, that saying isn't nerdy, just wait for the UDP jokes... (... which nobody gets.)
      - lucb1e 10y ago
        May be regional, I'm not sure. Might have picked it from in either Limburg, Noord-Brabant or Gelderland. Pretty sure though that it's fairly universal, even if it's not something lots of people say every day.
    - pif 10y ago
      > In Dutch we say aardappel (earth apple; means potato) to stupid people Same in France with "patate". Funny to notice that the more common French expression for "potato" is "pomme de terre" ("apple of earth"), just like in Dutch!
      - lucb1e 10y ago
        Patat in Dutch are french fries :D Though in the south (both south NL and Flemish Belgium) they're called "friet", as in "gefrituurd" ("fries" as in "they're fried"). Still, patat is officially Dutch and according to some website 95% of the Flemish people and 100% of the Dutch people know the word.
- jdavis703 10y ago
  Interesting, TIL that conjugation is not just for verbs, but that there is a separate and distinct use of this word for combining two ideas (which I guess in a sense is what verb conjugation is).
  - lotyrin 10y ago
    Generally, it is just verbs. The broader category (modification of any part of speech) is called inflection.
mrpopo 10y ago
I pulled up the image from the website; its metadata showed that it was downloaded from the wikimedia commons. I then ran a hex diff with https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fried_potatoes.jpg/640px-Fried_potatoes.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fr... . Turns out it was a complete match. So either there is nothing to see, or it is extremely elaborate!

zitterbewegung 10y ago

Onion routing probably. TOR stands for the onion router .

lorenzop 10y ago
YES! get in lads

catfood 10y ago

Eastern Europe eats a lot of potatoes. Onion = Onion Router

erikpukinskis 10y ago

It's just a good reminder.

notdang 10y ago

From wikipedia: In the Soviet Union, Belarusians were sometimes called bulbashi, a pejorative conjugation of the Belarusian word for potato.

tetromino_ 10y ago
That's because Belarusians eat a lot of potatoes. The per capita potato consumption there is probably the highest in the world: http://www.fao.org/potato-2008/en/world/ http://www.fao.org/potato-2008/en/world/
tomjakubowski 10y ago
Funny, I was just reading about how non-German residents of Germany use "Kartoffel" (potato) as a perjorative for Germans in Germany. I didn't realize "potato" was such an effective insult it would exist in another country too!
- lucb1e 10y ago
  In Dutch we say aardappel (earth apple; means potato) to stupid people, not Germans in particular as far as I knew. It might originate from that, I don't know. Wat een aardappel! "What a dummy!"
  - breakingcups 10y ago
    I've never said that.
    - cgvgffyv 10y ago
      You're 20, he's 45. Or he's even more of a nerd than you.
      - lucb1e 10y ago
        Nah, that saying isn't nerdy, just wait for the UDP jokes... (... which nobody gets.)
    - lucb1e 10y ago
      May be regional, I'm not sure. Might have picked it from in either Limburg, Noord-Brabant or Gelderland. Pretty sure though that it's fairly universal, even if it's not something lots of people say every day.
  - pif 10y ago
    > In Dutch we say aardappel (earth apple; means potato) to stupid people Same in France with "patate". Funny to notice that the more common French expression for "potato" is "pomme de terre" ("apple of earth"), just like in Dutch!
    - lucb1e 10y ago
      Patat in Dutch are french fries :D Though in the south (both south NL and Flemish Belgium) they're called "friet", as in "gefrituurd" ("fries" as in "they're fried"). Still, patat is officially Dutch and according to some website 95% of the Flemish people and 100% of the Dutch people know the word.
jdavis703 10y ago
Interesting, TIL that conjugation is not just for verbs, but that there is a separate and distinct use of this word for combining two ideas (which I guess in a sense is what verb conjugation is).
- lotyrin 10y ago
  Generally, it is just verbs. The broader category (modification of any part of speech) is called inflection.

mrpopo 10y ago

I pulled up the image from the website; its metadata showed that it was downloaded from the wikimedia commons. I then ran a hex diff with https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fried_potatoes.jpg/640px-Fried_potatoes.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fr... . Turns out it was a complete match. So either there is nothing to see, or it is extremely elaborate!