Apples are red
On the way back from lunch today, we walked past the fruit sellers and saw this rosy red big delicious *did I say bright red?* apples. Its not from Japan or Korea, which I heard can go up to more than a few dollars PER apple. Its from New Zealand and its called Richy Red New Zealand Apple.
Its going at SGD0.80 each and confirm sweet (the sign says so) so SD and me bought one each to try it out. He also bought some seedless grapes. The big orange-coloured navel oranges are also going at SGD4.50 for 5. The last time I had those big navel oranges, they were damn sweet. But I didn’t buy it this time.
Anyway, the vermillion apples were crunchy and tasted good. Mine is a bit tart, but SD says his is quite sweet. I think I shall try another one tomorrow..
On a philosophy note, why is an orange an orange? Is it because of the colour orange or cause the fruit is an orange?
It is because the fruit is called orange.
Hahah I’m not even going to attempt to answer the question cos i could go on and on.
Darren: so if the orange is another colour when it first come out? then how?
FF: good to talk about philosophical stuff sometimes.. quite fun..
something else might want to ask…
why is ovaltine called ovaltine, when the can is round?!
googled this:
The history of the word orange.
The word is possibly ultimately from Dravidian, a family of languages spoken in southern India and northern Sri Lanka. The Dravidian word or words were adopted into the Indo-European language Sanskrit with the form nraga. As the fruit passed westward, so did the word, as evidenced by Persian nrang and Arabic nranj. Arabs brought the first oranges to Spain, and the fruit rapidly spread throughout Europe. The important word for the development of our term is Old Italian melarancio, derived from mela, “fruit,” and arancio, “orange tree,” from Arabic nranj. Old Italian melarancio was translated into Old French as pume orenge, the o replacing the a because of the influence of the name of the town of Orange, from which oranges reached the northern part of France. The final stage of the odyssey of the word was its borrowing into English from the Old French form orenge.” Orange as color comes from the color of oranges.
>>why is ovaltine called ovaltine, when the can is round?!
The answer can be found here,supposedly
http://journals.aol.com/ber144/skelligrants/entries/1483
there goes the philosophical discussion for orange..
on Princess Dee’s ovaltine.. thats because the british clerk don’t know how to spell.. Ovaltine was originally called ovo-maltine, derived from the ingredients used to make, namely egg and malt.
Check out the story here.
So its not about the shape of the tin at all.
So if you plucked off a fly’s wings, does it become a walk or a crawl?
it crawls. if you pluck out the other 4 legs, then it will walk.
“it crawls. if you pluck out the other 4 legs, then it will walk.”
Brilliant answer Mandrake!!
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why are apples red!
apples are red?