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• Important piece of information 1: Embarrasser in this context means “to bother”, not “to embarrass”.
• Important piece of information 2: Fish don’t care about apples.

“On en est embarrassé comme le poisson d’une pomme” literally translates to “we are as bothered by it as the fish is by an apple”

Fish do not care about apples, apples are not found in the ocean and aren’t part of their diet - they are just completely absent from the average fish’s existence.
Which is why saying that you care about something like a fish cares about an apple is an idiomatic way to say you don’t care at all.

So it means “We are utterly unbothered by it”

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/s’en_soucier_comme_un_poisson_d’une_pomme
the more common way to word this idiom is “s’en soucier comme un poisson d’une pomme”