The color because the first person to ever eat one had to see it prior to biting into it.
ETA: Unless they were blind
ETA2: damn, 21 seconds
Originally Posted By WrenchBender:
The color because the first person to ever eat one had to see it prior to biting into it.
What if they were blind?
The name of the fruit came first, then somebody was describing the color of something else and said "It is the color of an orange".
Originally Posted By ArimoDave:
The name of the fruit came first, then somebody was describing the color of something else and said "It is the color of an orange".
This, the English word for the color derives from the word for the fruit.
