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Seeing the creator write “actually,” instead of “oh yeah?” somehow feels wrong.
I appreciate the skittles reference
Is it a skittles reference or is it a reference to purple not being an actual color and thus not a part of the rainbow?
and thus not a part of the rainbow?
Colour need not be on the rainbow. Colour is the human experience of colour which includes purple
Our minds don’t care whether a color is pure or whether it is a mix. We see those colors.
Like the berries there are technical definitions of colour that don’t mesh with the common definition
the heck do you mean purple is not an actual colour??
Purple, the color directly between red and blue, is a creation of your mind interpreting a band of light that triggers your red and blue sensing nerves, but no green is sensed. The actual band of light we can see goes from red to green to blue. Purple doesn’t fall between those colors, meaning it wouldn’t be included in a rainbow, and isn’t any “pure” light you could see, since it doesn’t fall on the spectrum.
Essentially, any time you see purple, you’re seeing two different frequencies of light that your mind interprets as a single frequency.
Like binaural beats for the eyes?
What is violet at the end of the visible spectrum, then? We call the higher wavelength stuff ultraviolet, and violet looks purple to me, so I’m having trouble reconciling this stuff with what you’re saying.
Violet is dark spectral blue, added as a separate color by people who wanted 7 not six colors in the spectrum
You’re thinking of indigo.
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Violet
That’s 6.
This feels like a case where botanical science should just have picked a different name. If you invalidate everything people think of as a berry and then tell them a dozen things that are clearly not berries are, in fact, berries, you’re just making the word berry meaningless.
Berry means a tiny, usually sweet, fruit-like growth from a plant. The kind that is usually picked in bunches. The kind that you use to make smoothies. That’s a berry.
Botany did us all a disservice by choosing the word “berry” to mean “a specific thing which invalidates everything you think is a berry.” Just call that plant structure something in Latin, ffs.
Well, cooking terms and botany terms are not the same. Any non reproductive part of a plant is vegetable. But in cooking we have a completely different idea of what vegetables are.
This really doesn’t matter because most people are not botanists and those who are probably know the terms. The only people that care are quirky internet people with debates about weather or not potato salad should be considered a cake or something.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Knowledge is knowing the common definition of fruit doesn’t include tomato.
wait until you hear about vegetables
Just happened last week.
Me: “I don’t even want to get started about vegetables. We’ll go into it for hours.”
Them: “Wait what?”
(Proceeds to go into a long conversation for hours)
What?
What about what?
The post probably.
What post?
What?
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
No it’s a berry.
Sir, this is a berry.
but what about boo-berry?
