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Bell peppers are the same colours as traffic lights

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Finally, a real shower thought instead of a thinly veiled political commentary.

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Idk, I think it may be about race, sounds kinda woke to me…

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  • Kyuuketsuki@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not sure I’ve seen an orange, white, brown or purple traffic light before!

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    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve only seen red, yellow, and green bell peppers. Maybe orange

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      • Kyuuketsuki@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Red, orange, yellow and green are all the same varient, but at different ripenesses. The others are different varients.

        Mostly just a novelty. Throw in a bit more colour, if available.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      SLOOOOOW DOOOOOWN!!

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    • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There are some people who constantly see the yellow lights as orange lights for some unknown reason and their partner then immediately makes fun of them every time they mention the wrong color. For those people the orange bell pepper gets referenced a bunch.

      ::: I am one of those people. :::

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Some unknown reason

        Is actively colorblind.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Something something they’re technically “amber” not “yellow”?

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    • justaman123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess we should make the follow cars in front of you light they want to use for smart cars just make the whole light orange

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Those people purple ones are amazing looking.

      [Leaving that autocorrection in, because it was great lol]

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Green: Go ahead and eat it.

    Yellow: Caution. Delicious.

    Red: Stop not eating them.

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Your comment gives serious You Suck At Cooking vibes.

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      • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “What, do you think it’s coincidence that ‘sauté’ rhymes with ‘all day’? Because I do.”

        Words to live by.

        #justiceforpimblokto

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fun fact: Bell peppers are tasty.

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  • nodoze313@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Traffic lights are the same colors as a subset of bell peppers?

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s some South African grocery chains that sold a 3 pack of red, yellow, green bell peppers.

    Also, for some reason SA calls traffic lights “robots.” Supposedly, it’s because when traffic cops were replaced by signals, it was a “robotic traffic signal.”

    So when you add these two things, you get…

    greenwaysonline.co.za/product/robot-peppers/

    kananaveggies.co.za/product/robot-peppers/

    www.pnp.co.za/…/000000000000421027_EA

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve even seen 3-packs of peppers sold this way, with a green, yellow, and red

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    • Bonesince1997@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Giving me mixed signals

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    • aarch64@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My local grocery store sells them like this, they’re actually labelled as traffic light peppers!

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  • ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I've seen them sold in 3 packs as "traffic light capsicums" with a red, green and yellow one. I would have written the showerthought the other way around though as all traffic light colours (red, amber/yellow, and green) are possible capsicum colours but not all capsicum colours are represented in traffic lights (purple, orange, white etc.)

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So are mangos.

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    • SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In the Midland region of the U.S., bell peppers, either fresh or when stuffed and pickled, are sometimes called mangoes.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper

      What the hell, y’all?

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      • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s…not what I was talking about…

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That sounds like a troll. Check the edit log.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But in reverse!

    I don’t like green ones. They taste unripe. No go!

    Yellow, meh, better but a bit bitter still. Hol-up!

    Red: lessgooo!

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some supermarkets sell packages of 3 labelled as “Traffic light”

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  • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So are bananas.

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  • guy_threepwood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Are bell peppers in Japan Blue?

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They say blue for the green traffic light but they call a lot of things blue that are more green (like plant shoots are called blue)

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