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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 91 points 11 months ago

Same with red cabbages.

Its a conspiracy by Big Red to profit from infringing on Purple's intellectual property. All the other primary colours are in cahoots. Its time to take down their shadowy cabal.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 25 points 11 months ago

it was named before purple was invented

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Ok, so we can never ever change the name.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

So says Robin Red Breast, the bird with orange belly feathers

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Big Blue is doing the same thing with blue grapes. Poor purple...

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 53 points 11 months ago

There was no word for purple back then.

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And yet they had purple onions. Curious.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 months ago
[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Damn it Ben crawl back in the hole

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

It was taken from us by the Kaiser.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

So I tied a red onion to my belt, which was the style at the time...

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[-] ARk@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

The future is now old man. Free the onion

[-] mokus 32 points 11 months ago

Until you cook them. Then they’re purple-ly clear.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 27 points 11 months ago

or you cook them with a base, like baking soda, then they turn green

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Is this that "alchemy" thing I've heard so much about?

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[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Atomic Purple

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago
[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Template

Not my cleanest work but it's fine if you don't look too close

[-] GoosLife@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Looks great mate, no one would notice if they don't know.

Also I think the template in itself is funny in an anti joke kind of way where you expect him to be protesting something but then he's just holding up an empty piece of cardboard really passionately lol.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

They played us for absolute fools...

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

With this knowledge, we can't left him alive.

- The onion industry, probably.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 12 points 11 months ago

Purple isn't a real color. Red + Blue on the color spectrum is Green.

[-] AreaKode@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

color spectrum

Explain. I'm too high to understand this.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just look at the spectrum chart here. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-visible-light-spectrum-2699036

Red + green = yellow...

Green + blue = cyan...

Red + Yellow = Orange...

Red + blue(indigo) = a color not on the chart? but in between the two colors is clearly green!

We perceive purple as an activation of Red and Blue cones in our eyes... The color itself actually doesn't exist as a discrete wavelength and is a collective hallucination of sorts.

Edit: Also... Brown isn't a color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU (whoops, wrong link originally, fixed now.)

[-] Supervivens@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Fine do you want to call it a violet onion then? They are basically the exact same damn thing and violet is a wavelength

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 11 months ago

https://jakubmarian.com/difference-between-violet-and-purple/

Violet and Purple are indeed not the same thing. Purple exists in that we perceive it... that's not what I'm arguing against. It's just that it's not a "real" color. It's only because of this "mass hallucination" of sorts that we're okay just accepting that it must be a color when it isn't representable as a single spectrum color like every other color. It is purple... but purple isn't a real color, it's effectively just shorthand for saying that this color is both blue and red. It's just you being human.

Brown has the same problem in that it's just dark orange (from the light spectrum perspective). It turns out that brightness context matters to us, so we choose brown to represent a large swath of that.

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[-] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago
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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 8 points 11 months ago

In short: Purple doesn't have it's own wavelength. Neither does white, black and the entire gray-scale or any mixing of any colour with the gray-scale and probably more. They're called non spectral colours.

It might be easier to understand when considering other types of waves. At least it is for me. A simple sound can also be described as a wave with a frequency, but if we play two sounds at the same time, we can't say that the sum of the waves has any specific frequency. The frequencies don't add up or multiply or mix as average. The combined sound can only be described as the addition of two frequencies.

In musical terms, purple is not a note, but instead a chord or interval. Red and blue can be individual notes, or they can be mixed as intervals. White is noise and black is silence.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that doesn't mean it isn't a "real" color.

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Anthocyanins

[-] mastefetri@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago

They can be purplish in some growth stages but on the whole they are a deep red, a crimson. Unless my eyes are just broken.

https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-2&q=red+onion&iax=images&ia=images

[-] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

About half of the pictures I see are Purple.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

None of those are red. They're all close to red, but none of them are actually red.

[-] wishthane@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Anthocyanins are responsible for the color and they act as a pH indicator, changing color from bright red in acid to bright blue in basic solutions. Soil acidity could have an impact on their color at harvest, but it also really depends on how you use them. If you put them raw in a salad, they'll probably turn quite red regardless, but it's also quite common to find them as a purple color.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

And gross. Petition to replace all onions with their vastly superior cousins, the shallot.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

This comment is clearly racist towards the whole of Eastern Europe. I’m reporting it right away.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

But I love borscht!

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

But pickled red onions are the shit.

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Red onion cult rise up.

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[-] Il_winters_lI@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

They also taste nasty because they're onions.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago
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