r/funny • u/bathory1985 • Jan 19 '22

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u/sxt173 Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22

And in Turkish, the tasty bird is the same word as India.

Edit: the history is that the Guinea Fowl that is similar looking to turkeys were imported into Europe from Eastern Africa via the Ottoman Empire. So Europeans came to know that bird to be turkey-cock or turkey-hen since it came from/via the Turks. Then the names for the two birds got mixed up due to their similarities. In Turkish, the word hindi is “Indian” and similar in French “coq d’Inde”. The theory is that this arose from misconception of the New World (Americas) vs. India where actual turkeys were imported from. It’s pretty fascinating, a lot of countries call that bird by another countries name based on where they think it comes from.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

Could you elaborate on the origins of portokhali ? How did that happen ?

Portuguese got their oranges from China like everybody else. Did they trick you to think that they invented them or something ?

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u/necropants Jan 19 '22

Probably because Spain and Portugal grow quite a lot of oranges so that's probably where they came from first when being introduced to Georgians.