Why "pineapple" ?

[Yoda Power]

It has nothing to do with pines or apples. This is one of the few things I've been wondering about for quite some time.

Side note: In Danish wee call them "ananas" which has nothing to do with pines or apples, but is just a stupid word I guess.

 

[nonconformist]

Why Pomme-de-Terre?

 

[CruddyLeper]

Ever seen a pine cone?

Pine cone fruit = pineapple.

 

[El_Machinae]

Pineapples kinda look like closed pine cones?

 

[GenMarshall]

Pineapples remind me of open pine cones . I guess it fits in with apple that grows on trees.

 

[Raisin Bran]

Why Pomme-de-Terre?

Pomme de terre is quite self-explanatory

Earth-apples (apple-shaped grown in the soil)

 

[nonconformist]

Pomme de terre is quite self-explanatory

Earth-apples

I know, but potatoes look nor taste noting like apples.

 

[El_Machinae]

White on the inside ..

 

[Raisin Bran]

I know, but potatoes look nor taste noting like apples.

a Pineapple dosent taste like a pine or an apple.

In french the word Apple is used for the fruit and is also used to signify a small round item

Ill give you an example

Pomme-de-terre is a great one there is also
Pomme-de-route witch means ''manure''
Pomme-d'adam (I have a blank but its the small bump we men have on our throats.)

 

[nonconformist]

a Pineapple dosent taste like a pine or an apple.

In french the word Apple is used for the fruit and is also used to signify a small round item

Ill give you an example

Pomme-de-terre is a great one there is also
Pomme-de-route witch means ''manure''
Pomme-d'adam (I have a blank but its the small bump we men have on our throats.)

The French, I'm fairly certain, don't call the Adam's Apple that.

EDIT: I leave this as a testament to my stupidity.
I really should get more reading done this yhear.

 

[Yoda Power]

I think apples is a word used for many fruits in the past. The Danish word for orange is appelsin, which comes from the german appfelsin(i think that's how you spell it). Which sort of means chinese apple (sino=chinese).

 

[Sidhe]

Pine comes from the Spanish pina meaning pine cone, the English added the apple because of it's similar constistency to the apple.

I love you google

 

[nonconformist]

Pine comes from the Spanish pina meaning pine cone, the English added the apple because of it's similar constistency to the apple.

I love you google

So what does Pina Colada mean?

 

[CruddyLeper]

Something of a miracle they didn't call it the Nederapple, oranges being orange and the Dutch being mad about the colour.

 

[Raisin Bran]

The French, I'm fairly certain, don't call the Adam's Apple that.

I Quebec we call it exactly that ... to be quite honest I don't know any other way of saying it !

 

[Sidhe]

So what does Pina Colada mean?

Pineaple Pina obviously, invented in Peurto Rico. Colada means strained apparently.

Origin:
In the 1950's in Puerto Rico, a man named Don Ramon Lopez-Irazzy came up with a delicious homoginised cream made from coconut. The product became known as Coco Lopez cream of coconut, and it was used for tropical dishes and desserts. But the best was yet to come. In 1957 Ramon Marrero, a bartender at Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton, combined coconut cream with rum, pineapple juice and ice in a blender to create this famous drink. Victor Bergeron (Trader Vic) borrowed Marrero's recipe in his later cocktail books and called it the Bahia The trick to making a great Pina Colada is to use both light and dark rum, a dash of bitters and a little double cream, which creates a drink with a much more complex flavour.

 

[Corlindale]

Side note: In Danish wee call them "ananas" which has nothing to do with pines or apples, but is just a stupid word I guess.

I think anana is the Inuit word for "mother", but I'm not quite sure. It still doesn't make sense, though. Ananas is such a funny word, I especially liked it when one could get a juice which had a mix of banana and pineapple, subsequently named "bananananas".

 

[nonconformist]

I Quebec we call it exactly that ... to be quite honest I don't know any other way of saying it !

Yeah, I asked my mothe,r they say it like that in France too

 

[warpus]

It has nothing to do with pines or apples. This is one of the few things I've been wondering about for quite some time.

Side note: In Danish wee call them "ananas" which has nothing to do with pines or apples, but is just a stupid word I guess.

We call them ananas in Polish too.

 

[jorde]

They are called "ananás" in certain Spanish speaking regions, like in Uruguay or Argentina.
They are simply called "piñas" in most other Spanish speaking countries.