What really gets me is that the compounds responsible for this hue in food are called "anthocyanins" which means "blue flower." I can't even.
Purple is just an up jump red aimed at royalty
Because the dry outer skin is a rich red colour
Wait till they find out that some cultures didn't have separate words for green and blue
An orange is about the only thing correctly named
Yeah that'll happen when you name the colour after the fruit.
Blueberry 🫐
Am I a fucking joke to you?
in hungarian it's purple onion, you just choose the wrong language :)
At least we aren't hungary all the time
Because purple isn't a colour
It's the absence of colour your brain cannot interpret so it makes a purple.
I doubt whoever named it knew that though
Because they are only purple on the inside. Do you think apples are white? Or bananas?
Jess and Rob on Words Unraveled talk about color word origins, and their discussion is illuminating about the cultural variance in perception of color. Now I am at peace with all the seemingly weird color names for things.
For a quicker tour, Vox talks about the order that languages fill in color words as cultures begin to refine their distinction.
Yet purple finches clearly are red
From what I know, it has to do with the word red covering the purple part of the spectrum long ago, and the "need" for the word purple came out later but purple things that were named red didn't get renamed.
You can look at japanese right now and 青い covers both blue and green, with a relatively recent addition of 緑 to cover only green (thus possibly pushing 青い in the future to be only blue, who knows)
Well whys it called Shepherds Pie when it doesnt contain shepherds, or Cottage Pie when its nothing to do with cottages or cottagimg? How about that one...checkmate!!!
And baby powder is never powdered babies!
Oh shit! Shouldn't have made my own. Although it is quite good sprinkled on my salad...
Similarly, the red fox is clearly orange, but English speakers were exposed to that species of fox before developing a word for that specific color. For bonus linguistical oddities, 'orange' was used for the fruit before it was used for the color.
Or the red squirrel, which is brown.
And red hair.
Yes, the word for greenery/foliage, 青葉, translates to "blue leaves"
Also the green traffic light is called blue
I already knew this about colors (it's also why "redheads" have orange hair) but I recently dug more into how the musical spectrum and how tones are defined is very similar in it's cultural variance. Another thing is how the cardinal directions are divided radially and how time is counted. Shit counting bases even, most of the imperial measurements are based on either base 12 or base 16 math.
Wild to think that something you grew up with as a fundamental fact of the world might actually be super culturally subjective.
For bonus points, terms for colors are developed differently but similarly in separate languages: see e.g. ‘Color term’.
The skin of red onions is reddish to purple. The flesh is purple much like shallots. But the skin sets them apart.
Same reason they call the tree a "Redbud tree."
Barely literate settlers were colonizing and writing home about the beautiful ~~Puple~~ ~~Prule~~ ~~Purlple~~ ~~Lavendaar~~ Red-Bud Trees.
The inside is purple, but the outside is red, especially if it's dry.
why do we call green grapes white
Or purple grapes red?
(I'm guessing due to the type of wine they make)
Don't even get me started on 'white' people.
Meanwhile stupid USians subscribe to the literal 19th-century ‘scientific racism’ theory that has ‘Caucasian people’ as something other than deeply tan skin that Caucasian people actually have.
We're not white on the Inside, so why should a red onion have to be red all the way through
It refers to the communism of the onions
In Spanish we actually call them "cebolla morada" that means purple onion :D
I'm crying
Calm down... calm down... Perhaps consider putting the onions aside and trying a nice parsnip.
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