• egrets@lemmy.world
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            12 days ago

            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.

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        The source for this is old reddit threads, so hardly authoritative, but supposedly the color orange was actually named after the food item.

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Does green apple count? It feels like an adjective but considering there’s “green apple” flavored candy, I’d consider it a part of the noun.