Why are purple fruits and vegetables often named red or blue.
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Excellent question!
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But to explain succinctly, all around the world most cultures — and when I’m saying that, I mean before civilization itself and from the beginning of verbal language — cultures had a pattern on how they named colors. Mainly, names were given to distinguish white & black and warm colors & cool colors. They called all warm colors from fuchsia, red, yellow, and orange “red” and all cool colors from green, blue, indigo, and purple “blue.”
Names more distinct than that were a luxury for people who weren’t being chased by lions or foraging for food.
By the time they were making more distinct names for colors, people were already accustomed to calling all warm colored foods “red” or all flowers “blue”. Changing the names would seem as weird as calling an orange literally anything else but orange. So a red onion is going to keep being called a red onion, even though now we call that color fuschia.
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