fruits are kind of a dessert, right? so are brownies.
Greengage?
Orange, cherry, blackberry, etc.
I’m pretty sure orange and cherry are named after the fruit, but Blackberry is true.
Nah it’s inspired from the phone
Nah that’s apples
those fuckers try to sell their fruit by using a brand’s name. They even got the design wrong, it’s supposed to have a curved side.
The source for this is old reddit threads, so hardly authoritative, but supposedly the color orange was actually named after the food item.
Yes indeed. Before we had “orange”, and also “purple” everything was just “red” which is why we have red onions and red cabbage that are anything but red and several species of bird are called red despite being clearly orange coloured.
Pendants will argue that black is not a colour
Physicists might argue that, but black is a color linguistically and in common usage; I’d argue that since OP was generally speaking in a linguistic context, linguistic rules override physics pedantry.
linguistic rules override physics pedantry.
Idk why, maybe because I’m a scientist, but this speaks to something in my soul
Hah! Why do we call black people coloured people then!
Checkmate blackisnotacolorists!
Redcurrant
Actually, the color is named after the fruit. It wasn’t until the late Middle Ages that we discovered anything other than the redcurrant that was red in color. Poppies, for example, were only discovered in ~1917, and we only found out about blood in the 1970s.
Dear Mr Encyclopedia, when were raspberries discovered? Wasn’t Avalon “the isle of apples?” When did Christian bibles start describing the forbidden fruit as “apples?” Were they not red apples?
What color did they call ripe ribe avu-crispa (a gooseberry)?
Are you seriously trying to claim that no human ever bled and saw the colour until the 1970s? LOL
Lol no. They are entirely taking the piss.
If their piss is red they need to go to the doctor as per this shart
Fuck.
Greengages.
I mean, orange was right there…
Engagement bait.
Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc
It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though
And the fruit is named after the tree.
A fact that I hadn’t realized. TIL.
Holy fuck
Just a little fun fact: the color was actually named after the fruit and not the other way around :D
“The word “orange” came into English from the Old French “pomme d’orenge”, which referred to the fruit.”
There are still blackberries though…
I think this might have been a joke abstracted to allude to that, without falling for the trap. Oranges were not named after the color, the color was named after the fruit.
But aren’t oranges actually green?
*Not a joke, btw. Oranges grown in tropical places are green.
Oranges are green until they are ripe. What tropical place did you see a ripe green orange?
Vietnam. Brazil. Ecuador. A lot of equatorial places.
The orange color is caused by something happening to the chlorophyll when the temperatures cool. But in the tropics, temps can be fairly steadily warm and don’t trigger that reaction.
Apparently oranges and other citrus fruit (and others, like bananas) are “degreened” with ethylene.
Here’s a video with bananas. https://youtu.be/jzjBAAv9nxc
Having grown up in Brazil, I can confidently say that most of our oranges are indeed orange. Green is usually the colour of non-ripe ones and you can expect extreme acidity from them.
In tropical countries, orange rinds may be permanently green – even when completely ripe.
Crazy!
Huh, TIL. I worked at an orange grove in the subtropics, and knew about the cold snap for other aspects of citrus, I never knew about the peel.
Blackberries
Greengages.
Redcurrants?
Blackcurrants?
Greencurrants?
Westcurrants
Chestnut
Cucumber.
Leaves are fruits? Eh?
If he’s pretending to be this dumb, he’s hilarious.
Red apple, green apple red strawberries, yellow strawberries, red tomatoes, green tomatoes, yellow tomatoes, purple tomatoes (although purple isn’t a real color by itself). Oh and red berries.
You might argue it’s not the fruit’s name, but when you say “honny, can you get me some apples from the store while you’re going there please?” and she comes back with green apples, while you wanted red apples, you’d be like “fuck. I should have named it better, I only asked for half the name of what I wanted, now I need to hit my wife to blame her and hide my mistake”. So my point here is, not naming the color of the fruit in its name is the cause for domestic violence.
I honestly will argue that it’s not their name, but rather a descriptor of the fruit.
Cripps Pink however, is a name of an apple.
I was joking
I know! I even gave you an upvote!
Pink Lady is a brand name.
That’s true actually! The name of the apple is Cripps Pink!
