Some short color words are spread thin in common usage. Words like “red” are pinned on many things that are slightly reddish. If plant breeders ever develop a cabbage that is actually red, they will find that the name “red cabbage” has been usurped. Chaos in the produce aisle! Hope spinach stays green.
Red ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #187
Salad Paradox
Red peppers are red.
Red cabbage is purple but
is said to be red.
Red peppers are red.
Red cabbage is purple but
is said to be red.
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Mellow Curmudgeon 
<grin> nor are red beets very much red.
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Love the title,
Salad Paradox.Life is full of paradoxes. 🙂LikeLiked by 1 person
Thoughtful musings on colours, made me pause to look with more care. There’s that thing on social media a year or so ago, about dress that some saw as blue and others as green (It was a bluey green !) Think that’s to do with different perceptions of colour ?
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Yes, blue green colors are even more ambiguous than others. I was thinking more about the tendency to apply simple conventional labels that clearly do not fit. Calling obviously purple cabbage “red” is no big deal. Calling light-skinned people “white” and dark-skinned people “black” may be a small factor in the persistence of racism.
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