Them apples
Arthur gave me some home-grown tomatoes the other day. As the song says, "There are two things money can't buy: one is love, the other is home-grown tomatoes." Yum.
So I'm eating one of them with my macaroni-and-cheese lunch today (people seem to think of both macaroni-and-cheese and peanut-butter sandwiches as kid food, but I eat them both a lot), and it occurred to me that I've never known why tomatoes are also known as love apples.
So I looked it up. MW10 says the etymology is "probably translation of French pomme d'amour."
~Oh, goody. I'm glad we cleared that up.~
So, any French speakers know why tomatoes were called pomme d'amour? (This would be 16th century or earlier.)