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Maaike 🔜 eth0 @ayke@blahaj.social
6mo
Normal people: using citric acid from lemons and such

This one: uses pure citric acid as a condiment
Small bottle (looking like a salt shaker) with the word "citroenzuur", meaning citric acid. It contains something that looks like salt or sugar but is in fact citric acid.
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
6mo
@ayke excuse me but why are your condiments named like a car?
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⊕-2922 [Rox] @rox@catcatnya.com
6mo
@kitten @ayke Because André Citroën’s grandfather was a Dutch green grocer who named himself after the fruit lemon (Citroen in Dutch)

source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Citroën#Life_and_career
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Maaike 🔜 eth0 @ayke@blahaj.social
6mo
@kitten no, cars are named after the fruit :)

(And "citric acid" is presumably named after citrus fruits)
Screenshot from Wikipedia, with the text: The Citroen family descended from a grandfather in the Netherlands who had been a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit, and had taken the surname of Limoenman, Dutch for "lime man"; his son however changed it to Citroen (pronounced [siˈtrun]), which in Dutch means "lemon". In 1873 the family moved to Paris; upon arrival, the French tréma was added to the surname (reputedly by one of André's teachers), changing Citroen to Citroën.
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
6mo
@ayke ​:blobCat_eyes:​
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Lis (≙) retired account @lis@luisa.is
6mo
@ayke @kitten oh wow, I will pronounce the car Dutch from now on neocat_eyes
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Maaike 🔜 eth0 @ayke@blahaj.social
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@lis @kitten I used to be so confused as a kid, pronouncing "Citroën" as Dutch "citroen" (and obviously thinking about the fruit). Turns out I was right all along! 😄
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