The name of the color comes from the name of the fruit, so imagine if humans discovered carrots before oranges so the color orange was actually called the color carrot.
Carrots as we know them today are not what they once were. They used to be mostly white or yellow, and not as sweet as they are now. You can still find yellow or white carrots in many places, sometimes even purple ones.
As for the color, it used to be called yellowred before they decided to name it after the fruit.
I think they named oranges before they named carrots. "What are these?" "Those are orange: oranges." "What about these?" "Oh, shit. Long pointies? Well go by shape now?"
Carrot juice is usually a more orange orange juice than how orange orange juice is.
Agreed. Orange juice is yellow.
So orange juice is not orange juice and carrot juice is orange juice?
Ohhh. So they should have called it a yellow /s
By etymology, carrots are not orange. Oranges are by definition the most orange.
Fun fact: the color is named after the fruit, not the other way around
The name of the color comes from the name of the fruit, so imagine if humans discovered carrots before oranges so the color orange was actually called the color carrot.
Carrots as we know them today are not what they once were. They used to be mostly white or yellow, and not as sweet as they are now. You can still find yellow or white carrots in many places, sometimes even purple ones.
As for the color, it used to be called yellowred before they decided to name it after the fruit.
The less sweet varieties make some really good roasted vegetables to go with other things.
-Demetri Martin
English naming a fruit the same as a color. SMH my head.
IIRC its the reverse as the name of the fruit goes back to Sanskrit naranga-s.
Fruit first, color name later - as in "the color of an orange", which then became just "orange".
Yeah, red used to cover more colors and at some point yellow-red was used.