{"id":12391,"date":"2016-05-18T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12391"},"modified":"2016-05-18T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T16:04:21","slug":"earth-apple-in-the-garden-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12391","title":{"rendered":"Earth apple in the garden dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/bakedpotato.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Baked potato\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An interesting French expression I learnt last week was &#8220;<strong>pomme de terre dans la robe de jardin<\/strong>&#8221; or literally &#8220;apple of the earth in the dress of the garden&#8221;, which is apparently one way French speakers refer to a baked \/ jacket potato. <\/p>\n<p>Other names include:  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; pomme de terre au four = lit. &#8220;apple of the earth in the oven&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; pomme de terre cuite au four = lit. &#8220;apple of the earth cooked in the oven&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; pomme de terre en robe des champs = lit. &#8220;apple of the earth in the dress of the fields&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are these expressions all used in French? <\/p>\n<p>Are baked potatoes popular in French-speaking countries?<\/p>\n<p>How about in other countries?<\/p>\n<p>In the UK a baked potato can be a meal in itself. They are often served with cheese, tuna and other fillings &#8211; my favourite is cheese and bacon. Is this a peculiarly British thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting French expression I learnt last week was &#8220;pomme de terre dans la robe de jardin&#8221; or literally &#8220;apple of the earth in the dress of the garden&#8221;, which is apparently one way French speakers refer to a baked \/ jacket potato. Other names include: &#8211; pomme de terre au four = lit. &#8220;apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}