Greengage?
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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.
Orange, cherry, blackberry, etc.
I'm pretty sure orange and cherry are named after the fruit, but Blackberry is true.
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.
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Pendants will argue that black is not a colour
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.
Are you seriously trying to claim that no human ever bled and saw the colour until the 1970s? LOL
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Fuck.
Greengages.
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Greengages.
Leaves are fruits? Eh?
If he's pretending to be this dumb, he's hilarious.
Blackberries
Redcurrants?
Blackcurrants?
Greencurrants?
Westcurrants
Chestnut
Cucumber.
I mean, orange was right there...
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.
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…
Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc
And the fruit is named after the tree.
It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though
Holy fuck
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
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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.
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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.
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