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Well, that's fascinating. I had no idea the French had the equivalent of french fries, french toast, french beans, french dip, french onion soup, french onion d
by irrational 7y ago
Well, that's fascinating. I had no idea the French had the equivalent of french fries, french toast, french beans, french dip, french onion soup, french onion dip, french silk pie, and other stuff that has "french" in the name but probably has no real relationship to France.
- reaperducer 7y agoAlong those lines, "Philadelphia" cream cheese was invented in Goshen, New York. The city name was used because at the time, "Philadelphia" was synonymous with "quality." You run into a lot of this kind of thing if you're in to word origins.
- avip 7y agoA known crowd-pleaser in this field is the "Jerusalem Artichoke"[0] which has nothing to with any of the words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke
- jessaustin 7y agoI'm convinced the second word was selected because prefixing an "f" tells one most of what one needs to know about this vegetable.