They used to be called purple onions

I think my grandparents called them Florida onions, if I recall correctly?

Was that a thing?

Wasn’t the Purple Onion a restaurant on the Upper West Side ?

Red Cabbage is also purple.

Very Dark Lavender Onions?

Why is there no blue food?

I never heard "purple" onions -- they're red onions.

I hear both purple and red, I say red.

I was far into adulthood when I realized what pomegranates were. My dad called them Chinese apples.

There used to be a bar in Western Massachusetts, years ago, called the Purple Onion. I vaguely recall (as a child) some local rumors about it being a gay bar, but I don't think that was the case. Perhaps the local hillbillies assumed it was gay because of the color purple or some simplistic nonsense like that. It closed and was deserted for a while before opening as something else, but I always wondered what kind of place it actually was.

Not in my house growing up. I thought “purple onion” was not the right term, but people say it because they think it’s wrong to call them red.

No, dear. They were called BERMUDA ONIONS. I hate em, always have.

I always call it purple cabbage but I say red onions, because that’s what I grew up hearing my mother say.

Both the onion and the cabbage look purple or magenta to me.

Also, all kinds of things (foods) are called "white," when they're really not white. White wine is yellow. Etc.

R13- White cabbage 🥬 is light green.

[quote]I was far into adulthood when I realized what pomegranates were. My dad called them Chinese apples.

Kiwis are sometimes called Chinese gooseberries. And cilantro can be called Chinese parsley.

I like blue, r5.

Blueberries, blue grapes, blue carrots, blue corn, Berry Blue Jell-O shots.

Blue is pretty

They are neither red nor purple... they magenta or puce.