Finally, a real shower thought instead of a thinly veiled political commentary.
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Not sure I've seen an orange, white, brown or purple traffic light before!
I've only seen red, yellow, and green bell peppers. Maybe orange
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.
Red bell peppers are just ripe green bell peppers, yes. But yellow, orange, etc. are actually distinct varieties. These are indeed all from the same species of plant, though.
Maybe I'm dumb but I sampled all of them raw and orange definitely taste the best.
They definitely have differences in flavor, I had an executive chef that absolutely hated green bell peppers. The "underripe" green bell is much more vegetal than it's sweeter, ripened red form, which has had more time to develop natural sugars. Like a banana. In fact, peppers and bananas are both technically berries, botanically speaking! Raspberries and strawberries aren't though? lol
Orange bell peppers be like...

There are some people who constantly see the yellow lights as orange lights for some unknown reason and their partner then immediately pokes fun at them every time they mention the wrong color. For those people the orange bell pepper gets referenced a bunch.
spoiler
I am one of those people
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
Green: Go ahead and eat it.
Yellow: Caution. Delicious.
Red: Stop not eating them.
Your comment gives serious You Suck At Cooking vibes.
I've even seen 3-packs of peppers sold this way, with a green, yellow, and red
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.)
So are mangos. (mangoes?)
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?
That sounds like a troll. Check the edit log.
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...
https://greenwaysonline.co.za/product/robot-peppers/
https://kananaveggies.co.za/product/robot-peppers/
https://www.pnp.co.za/harvest-fresh-robot-peppers/p/000000000000421027_EA
Are bell peppers in Japan Blue?
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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