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What is the story of how the Potato is called 'Apple of the Earth' in French?

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What is the story of how the Potato is called 'Apple of the Earth' in French?

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  1. I´d like to know that too. Well, Italians call the tomato "gold apple". Tomatos are somewhat alike to apples, but potatoes....


  2. ln 1762 the botanist Henri Louis Duhamel de Monceau called it pomme de terre (apple from earth).

  3. I think it has the same meaning in the Dutch translation as well...
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