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[–] 47 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe I'm dumb but I sampled all of them raw and orange definitely taste the best.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    Orange bell peppers be like...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

    spoilerI am one of those people
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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

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

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Green: Go ahead and eat it.

    Yellow: Caution. Delicious.

    Red: Stop not eating them.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months 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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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 10 months 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...

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Are bell peppers in Japan Blue?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months 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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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    So are bananas.

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