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[surreal osprey]

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[polar comet]

une baie noire/mûre - a black berry
une fraise - a strawberry
Une orange - orange
Une orange sanguine - blood orange
Une clémentine - clementine
Une mandarine tangerine - mandarin orange
Une main de Bouddha - Buddha’s hand fruit
Une framboise - raspberry
Une airelle - cranberry
Une groseille - (red) currant
Une groseille à maquereau - gooseberry
Une cerise - cherry
Une mangue - mango
Une papaye - papaya
Une goyave - guava
Une carambole - carambolo
une mâche - lamb’s lettuce
une batavia - batavia lettuce
une salade romaine - romaine lettuce
une salade frisée - frisee lettuce
une noix - nuts
Une noisette - hazelnut
Une pistache - pistachio
Une cacahuète - peanut
Une amande - almond
Une noix de coco - coconut.
Une châtaigne - chestnut

[polar comet]

i'll remember all of them regardless, not hard

just i wonder which ones french people almost never use

[sick wind]

I'll just note the ones I haven't/have rarely heard

• brugnon (this is a type of nectarine, to be clear, not an exact synonym)
• citron (combava/meyer/caviar)
• ("un poivre" and "un poivron" are two very different things)
• corossol
• chou (romanesco/chinois)
• blette (I think I've heard this a couple times tho??)
• nèfle
• (salade is written wrong twice on your first entry)
• (idk what a freestone peach is but "nectarine" is just "nectarine")
• (pêche de vigne is just a wild peach, idk what a dougnut peach is)
• quetsche (I think I may have heard this a couple times)
• reine-claude
• never heard "baie bleue" - only "bleuet" (blueberry) and "myrtille" (bilberry, but commonly related to blueberries when translating culturally)
• again never heard "baie noire"
• never heard airelle, in canada they're called canneberge and in france I believe most people just call them "cranberry"
• carambole
• mâche
• ("noix" will usually be interpreted as "walnut" in france, not just generic "nuts", you'd usually have to specify "fruits de coque")

[torpid marlin]

a lot of those are very common in France, especially in certain regions

brugnons, blettes, quetsche, pêche de vigne especially come to mind (maybe it's because my husb is from the south east?)

I don't see mâche in OPs list, but it's also extremely common

in the end there's not an "ideal list" of fruits and veg to learn... they all can come up but the things to learn first are the things you like to eat, since that's what you'll be talking about the most

[sick wind]

Mâche is on there
But yeah, that's why I was sure to mention that it was from personal experience & that even some of them I had heard before. I've had partners from Paris, south west & south east and haven't heard most of the ones I mentioned, but it's likely in part because they either didn't happen to eat any or didn't happen to mention them. Pêche de vigne wasn't noted because I hadn't heard it, but because the translation to my knowledge is wrong (or at the very least I haven't heard the English term)
Pretty much any fruit/veg/most things you can come across will exist somewhere and be used by someone

[torpid marlin]

Hmmm I thought pêches de vigne were these, which would make sense as donut peach. But my hubs is telling me that no, those are another variety. (I don’t eat peaches, but he loves them lol)

In any case, I was just adding my two cents because even if you’ve had partners in France, its always been my understanding that you were stronger in QC french which sometimes can vary quite a bit from Fr French when it comes to food words

[polar comet]

poivre vs poivron just spice vs vegetable right?

like black pepper spices for seasoning

vs 🌶️🫑

[sick wind]

essentially yea

[polar comet]

to be fair, soursop is something i think you hear dependant on where you live, its quite a known fruit where i am so maybe its a Caribbean thing

[polar comet]

thanks alot btw

[polar comet]

actually @sick wind which one are you better at, qc or fr ?

[sick wind]

Depends. I grew up only with qc and irl is mostly qc. But the people I speak to every single day are fr