The Hot Pepper

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Carrots have more beta-carotene. Uncle Ted wants to know why you are greener than green.

Shouldn't Carrots be called carrot colored then ?
If an Orange is orange colored, then a Carrot is carrot colored, not orange.

I think a better question is: "Why is a fruit named a color name at all?" It makes plenty enough sense to include a color name as a quanlifier, like "red beans", but what is "a red"?

Excellent point geeme. Maybe naming it after what it tastes like would be more suiting.. I've never eaten anything and said, mmmmm that tastes red..

HnB knows whats up

The Uncle Ted reference and the lyrics give it away? Lol

Really? You've never had a curry and appreciated the sheer redness of the peppers and spices?

Setting that aside aside, however, oranges aren't named for their colour, the colour was named after the fruit. Apparently we had no concept of orange in england until after we bastardised the spanish "naranja" (which became "a norange" before the n got misplaced). This is why a few things (most notably hair) are still referred to as "red" despite clearly not being.

See what you did GIP?! Started a topic of colors (colours) for those that did not understand. LMAO Nice work!

It's not

You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a beautician from Guatemala named Maurice.

Blueberries: well, no shit!