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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"

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.
smcl 10y ago
Not to mention that there's a lot of (IMO semi-bad taste, but mostly just unfunny) potato pejoratives + punchlines directed @ the irish.
IsmaOlvey 10y ago
In the game Dota 2, the bracket with players that play so badly it becomes humorous, is often called the "potato bracket". Ostensibly the term is meant to imply that the players there have about as much capability of thought as a potato.

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.

smcl 10y ago

Not to mention that there's a lot of (IMO semi-bad taste, but mostly just unfunny) potato pejoratives + punchlines directed @ the irish.

IsmaOlvey 10y ago

In the game Dota 2, the bracket with players that play so badly it becomes humorous, is often called the "potato bracket". Ostensibly the term is meant to imply that the players there have about as much capability of thought as a potato.