3 thoughts on “If the description was true to the name”
a fir apple!
Gosh, I buy mine cut up I didn’t know they looked like that./s
originally a “pine apple” was what we now know as “pine cone”. When the fruit was discovered the English speakers somehow decided it looked enough like a pine cone to transfer the name to it — and then needed to rename the seed carrier of the pine tree…
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a fir apple!
Gosh, I buy mine cut up I didn’t know they looked like that./s
originally a “pine apple” was what we now know as “pine cone”. When the fruit was discovered the English speakers somehow decided it looked enough like a pine cone to transfer the name to it — and then needed to rename the seed carrier of the pine tree…