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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact: orange (the color) is named after orange (the fruit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)#Etymology

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Colours that live up to their name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Names that live up to their fruit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What color would you like this wall??

Ooh the color of an orange please.

Sure thing, it's really where there isn't a word for that color, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone hasn't had ripe honeydew

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or passion fruit... Them shits are delicious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My experience with passion fruit is that they tend to shove it in every single mixed fruit juice, and what it does, is give those juices just a bitter aftertaste.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, it's the citric acid giving all those juices the bitter aftertaste

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May be, but a citrus fruit juices don't have that aftertaste, even if they're mixed with banana, mango or whatever. For me the common denominator is the passionfruit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I'm talking about the actual fruit.. may pops...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But it doesn't make me suffer so how does it live up to its name??

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bananas definitely live up to their name. Very banana.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As a banana I can confirm, I'm very banana

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blueberry lives up to its name.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do taste rather blue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fruits that exceed the expectations of their name:

  • Pineapple
  • Kiwifruit/Chinese gooseberry
  • Gooseberry
  • Strawberry
  • Raspberry
  • Uglifruit
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The nightmare of every car enthusiast

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Star fruit = shaped like stars Durian = "duri" means spike

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I feel like if you have grapefruit as a fruit that does not live up to its name then grape should be on the other list.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Have they even seen a dragonfruit? Shit looks and tastes like a delicious dragon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If you've only ever had the good awful underripe honeydew they put in fruit trays for catering, then yeah you'd probably think it's underwhelming. A good, ripe honeydew is my second favorite melon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you ever eaten a passionfruit? You gotta get your fingers in there to get the juices flowing, then you gotta slurp it up with your tongue, licking it clean .. passionfruit surpasses it's name.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

How is strawberry not included, it's a double, neither straw nor berry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Grapefruit grows bunched up, kinda but not really like grapes.

Passionfruit is named for its flower, which has structures that correspond numerically to the stations of the cross and are thus a reference to the Passion of Christ. In this sense, "Passion" refers to suffering, not love or joy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, your saying, for a passionfruit to live up to its name it would have to cause stigmata, right? That's pretty hardcore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well, orange you glad?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What's with the honeydew hate? It's one of the juiciest fruits out three and tastes amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But how about dem apples? Dem apples are pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fruits that sometimes live up to their name: pear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think technically the name lives up to the fruit, didn't the fruit come before the colour? Or am I thinking of mandarin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Someone's never tried to fuck a passionfruit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yuo better take passion fruit off that list if u know what’s good for you