Red foxes are clearly orange. Black tea is clearly red. White grapes are clearly green.
It's the truth!
Submitted 2 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
A black box is orange. A red panda is brown. A great white is mostly grey.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
No. They are maroon.
myster0n@feddit.nl 2 months ago
No need to insult them
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 2 months ago
Are you calling me a moron?!
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
And maroons are escaped slaves that set up their own communities in the Caribbean.
shittydwarf@piefed.social 2 months ago
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Red onion skin is part of kids science experiments about PH. I just did that experiment with my kids not long ago.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Pickled red onions are next fucking level. They are so goddamn good its kind of crazy
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Grapes, too.
workerONE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Really blew my mind when I found out that red onions are just ripe white onions.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
That is not true?
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 2 months ago
WHAT!!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You’re thinking of bell peppers, not onions, they are distinct cultivars.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Green onions are green but not onions!
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not with that attitude
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Japan they’re called blue onions - neither blue nor onions.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Red onions are all RED!
I’ve never seen a red onion only purple but if I ever do see a red onion I guarantee it will not be purple.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Japan green onions are called “blue onions”. I do not know why.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Japanese used to have no distinction between blue and green
Overshoot2648@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Most people don’t have the distinction between blue and cyan despite the fact that it is the same distance as red is from yellow. :/
halvar@lemy.lol 2 months ago
In my language it’s called a purple onion
and the we call white onions red
Xanvial@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, my three years old kid really debating me about this. Insisting that it’s purple onions. Can’t really argue
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Blue cheese is almost entirely creamy-offwhite coloured.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
It at least has some parts that are a blueish green.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
And pretty much everything orange is named red.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Leave it to colorblind people to name everything color-related.
tino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
as a radical colourblind: colour is a construction of the mind. Colour names make no sense. The only thing that matters is contrast.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Color is in the eyeballs. The proteins in your eyes that react to different wavelengths of light produce the network of colors we see. Your brain processes the image but all the color signals are assigned by your eyes.
I believe there’s even lens tech that can help alter colors so colorblind can differentiate the colors easier if the colorblindness falls into certain variants.
FranciscoLopez@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Team ‘red onion is purple’ reporting for duty 🫡 ‘Red’ is just marketing—someone at Big Onion is lying to us.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a bot
roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Maybe you all have color blindness.
Tommelot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re in a red netting, obviously!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BURN HIM!!!
Denjin@feddit.uk 2 months 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.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
Lil-red-throat in German
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Or perhaps Homer was colorblind?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cultures around the world divide the color spectrum up in wildly different ways, which really highlights the absurdity of “color” being a real, objective property. There’s one culture (I forget which, somewhere in Africa) where all the “dark” variants of colors are called by the same name. Other cultures often combine texture and other properties into their words for colors.
thomasloven@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s the same reason why ”Violets are blue”.
Denixen@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Roses are red and violets are blue, You have been misled, for that isn’t true
kopasu22@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yum, onion fritters!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Wasn’t purple a “royal” colour back in Roman toga times? Maybe it was called something different?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The Latin and Greek speaking parts of the world probably had a word for purple by that point. Remember the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who would evolve into the medieval Anglo-Saxons were from around modern continental Denmark to about the modern Hanover region. This area didn’t really have the color purple all that much and frankly speaking Britain ain’t much better on that front, probably why it took till around the viking age to get a word for it since that’s when pan European trade started to pick up again to a large enough degree for purple dyes to start getting to Britain on a regular basis.
jve@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was. It was the royal color because it was famously hard and expensive to make purple dyes out of sea snails.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was “purpura” in Latin. OP said purple is relatively modern in English.
Denjin@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Yes but not in English, which was my point
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look, man, I’m not concerned with what middle earth or Mordor or whatever can see, I’m here on the planet U S of A.
msage@programming.dev 2 months 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!