two examples: white wine, white grape juice. both are very common.
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hanke@feddit.nu 2 weeks agoWho calls green grapes white…?
Never heard that happen
anewfox@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Never heard about green grapes. Here in Germany they are called “white grapes” and EN-Wikipedia is also calling them that in english. We are also talking it “white wine” and so on.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Might be different in other languages, but English usually divides grapes into red and white for color.
But I guess another question is why they call it white wine when it’s more yellow.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The fuck it does
Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
White Wine
phar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s only because the wine is whitish. Nobody calls the grapes themselves white. And she squeeze the juice out the juice isn’t the same color as the skin. I’ve never heard anyone refer a grapes as white grapes
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Pink balls
We’re talking about grapes?
GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In English, grapes are green or red.
Wine is not a grape. White wine and red wine refers to the color of the wine. Nobody calls vodka golden because it came from a potato.
otter@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Which part of the world are you from? I’m in Canada, and we call them green grapes and red grapes
www.safeway.com/shop/aisles/…/grapes.html?sort=&p…
Meanwhile Wikipedia notes ‘“Black” (dark blue) and “white” (light green) table grapes’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
US. When I go to the grocery store, they’re categorized under white or red.
That’s also how the English Wikipedia classifies different grape cultivars, even ones that aren’t intended to make wine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(grape)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almeria_(grape)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia_(grape)