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If you pickle that red onion, everything turns red.
GORGEOUS piece of polite savaging right there! π
This goes for other colors too, such as blue in ancient greece. Also, Homer regarded wine, the sea, and sheep as all being the same colour, which is 'red'.
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/why-there-was-no-word-for-blue-in-ancient-greece-and-how-homer-and-aristotle-perceived-colors
Also in Japanese they didnβt had a separate word for green for a very long time. Green was just a shade of blue. Itβs why a lot of things like fruits and vegetables have blue in the name like ιθ± aomame literally blue bean or ιζζͺ aoringo literally blue apple. Or why they call the green light on traffic lights blue.
The traffic light thing is actually quite interesting
https://youtu.be/xgE2FKYzyXw