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Can something taste pink?

tplyons

tplyons

Apr 6, 2003
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From an office debate: can something taste pink? Or purple?

For instance a fruit snack. You eat it. It's fruity but you can't pinpoint it. Not strawberry. Not raspberry. Is it acceptable to say it tastes like pink?
 
#5
No, something cannot taste pink, as colors do not have flavor.

Now, we all know that certain colors can be associated with certain flavors, but the reality is that you can take something that tastes like a pineapple and make it pink. You can make something pink (or in this example red) and make it taste like chocolate, like red velvet cake. Colors are visual stimuli created by the spectrum of light.
 
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MatticusMania said:
No, something cannot taste pink, as colors do not have flavor.

Now, we all know that certain colors can be associated with certain flavors, but the reality is that you can take something that tastes like a pineapple and make it pink. You can make something pink (or in this example red) and make it taste like chocolate, like red velvet cake. Colors are visual stimuli created by the spectrum of light.
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Orange? :ninja:
 
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MatticusMania said:
I wonder if the color was named after the fruit, or the fruit after the color.
Something can taste like an orange, but I dont think it is correct to state that something tastes orange.
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looks like the color was named after the fruit

from online etymology dictionary:
c.1300, of the fruit, from Old French orange, orenge (12c., Modern French orange), from Medieval Latin pomum de orenge, from Italian arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza), alteration of Arabic naranj, from Persian narang, from Sanskrit naranga-s "orange tree," of uncertain origin. Not used as a color word until 1540s.
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