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I mean, orange was right there...
Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc
It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though
A fact that I hadn't realized. TIL.
Holy fuck
And the fruit is named after the tree.
Engagement bait.
I’m already married.
right on. this tweet is like saying "there's not a single country in africa that starts with the letter K." there obviously is, but it's targeting people who are knowledgable enough to know the answer but not intelligent enough to understand the point of the tweet.
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…
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.
But aren't oranges actually green?
*Not a joke, btw. Oranges grown in tropical places are green.
Even if they were, they're not called greens.
It might depend on the variety, there are many, many kinds of oranges.
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.
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.
Apparently oranges and other citrus fruit (and others, like bananas) are "degreened" with ethylene.
Here's a video with bananas. https://youtu.be/jzjBAAv9nxc
I can also say that bananas are quite yellow when ripe, without additives. Have had banana trees in 2 different houses, of 2 different banana varieties.
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.
Holy shit!
Crazy!