Green onions are green but not onions!
It's the truth!
Submitted 11 hours ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth 10 hours ago
Red foxes are clearly orange. Black tea is clearly red. White grapes are clearly green.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Black tea refers to the degree of oxidation of the tea leaves - yellow, white and green teas all do the same thing. Similarly, white grapes are called that because they produce white (clear) liquid (though it’s clearly yellowish so who knows).
Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth 9 hours ago
Black tea refers to the visible degree of oxidation of the tea leaves
Makes sense
grapes are called that because they produce white (clear) liquid
Even if it produced indisputably white liquid. Why not call it after its own color while tea is named after the color of its processed leaves?
You'd expect tea which is thought of as a drink to be known for the color of the liquid, and grapes often eaten as is to be named after their color.
But it doesn't really matter, any of these could've been named after whichever color they were at any point of their making / preparation. It's not like there's a convention or something
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 hours ago
A black box is orange. A red panda is brown. A great white is mostly grey.
wewbull@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
No. They are maroon.
myster0n@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
No need to insult them
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 10 hours ago
Are you calling me a moron?!
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
What really breaks my brain is that the pigment responsible for this purple hue are called anthocyanins. It literally has the root-word for blue in the name, even though that’s not the only color it can make.
workerONE@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Really blew my mind when I found out that red onions are just ripe white onions.
Rooster326@programming.dev 5 hours ago
That is not true?
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
WHAT!!
shittydwarf@piefed.social 11 hours ago
halvar@lemy.lol 3 hours ago
In my language it’s called a purple onion
and the we call white onions red
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Blue cheese is almost entirely creamy-offwhite coloured.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
It at least has some parts that are a blueish green.
ceenote@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Grapes, too.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If I pickle them in vinegar, they turn bright pink, if I alkalize them in baking soda, they turn blue, if I cook them slowly in butter they turn a deep brown color.
worhui@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Red onion skin is part of kids science experiments about PH. I just did that experiment with my kids not long ago.
Xanvial@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, my three years old kid really debating me about this. Insisting that it’s purple onions. Can’t really argue
Tommelot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They’re in a red netting, obviously!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
BURN HIM!!!
Denjin@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Red Onions (and every other not-red food that’s called red) is older in the English language than the word “purple”.
Purple is a relatively modern concept in English having first been used circa 900AD. Before that basically everything towards the magenta part of the spectrum was all just called red.
See also Orange, the colour is named after the fruit and not the other way round.
thomasloven@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s the same reason why ”Violets are blue”.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
See also: ‘robin red breast’ to describe the European robin, which very clearly has an orange breast:
A small brown and white bird with a very orange chest perched on a branch
Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Lil-red-throat in German
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
And before that we have people looking at colours entirely differently, like Homer calling the sea the colour of red wine.
Which my Greek teacher would explain by saying “my pencil is the the same shade of yellow as your book is blue”.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Or perhaps Homer was colorblind?
kopasu22@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The concept of purple is older than English, though. I guess when English chose to adopt it is the main question, but should be clarified that the term where “purple” derives from goes back to the ancient Romans, who recognized it as a distinct color used for royalty given the difficulty in obtaining it.
It does have me wondering exactly when red onions first arrived in the UK, because the variety is native to southern Europe. And I wonder what the Romans called that type of onion, which was surely used there before those dirty Britons got their hands on it.
I also know that, when boiled, they yield a very rich, red color. Could maybe be named “red” due to that? Some Orthodox Christians/eastern Europeans traditionally use red onions to dye eggs for Easter.
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undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 hours ago
I was always curious about this! I’m bilingual and I always get mixed up because they’re actually called “purple onions” in Spanish. I always forget which language calls it which, but knowing this is definitely helpful!
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
In Bangla, we call the color peyaji, which is basically “onion-y”. It’s also what we call onion fritters, and they’re absolutely delicious.
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yum, onion fritters!
msage@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Wow, thank you!
Now when people call me color-blind cause I don’t care about color matching or their names, I can just say I’m very old fashioned!