The funniest about this is that I once watched a video on interesting languages to learn and they were like "this language is super interesting because you spell everything the same as you pronounce it"... yeah like any normal language?
I understand languages get to change over time and once upon a time edinborough was actually pronounced close to it's spelling, not the butchered edinbra of today. But why the fuck hasn't the spelling catch up completely puzzles me, since no other language I've heard of has issues to the same degree.
You leave potatoes out of this. They are literally the food of gods and glorious when fried!
Edit: I grew up on a farm next to a small river in Minnesota called Pomme de Terre. And due the light sandy soil, it was excellent for growing pomme de terres and sugar beets.
Honestly, the original question was a good one. That snarky reply in the original picture was pretty douchey. There's a lot of interesting history behind linguistics.
Actually the Normans, who were Vikings who rocked up in France and caused such a stink that the crown granted them lands in the north to shut them up. 1066 was basically a succession crisis between three cousins vying for the English crown.