It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

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In Castellano (Spanish from Spain), it's called piΓ±a.

Spanish in other places, tooβ€”piΓ±a colada, anyone?

The takeaway here is, the rest of the world uses different words than the continents where it comes from