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a redcurrant that ghosted its own pigment and somehow tastes better for it
means A pale, translucent cultivar of the redcurrant — small, tart-sweet berries borne in dangling clusters, often considered milder and sweeter than their red counterparts.
from A transparent compound of "white" and "currant." The "currant" half is the curious bit: it comes from "raisins of Corauntz" — grapes of Corinth, the Greek city that exported tiny dried grapes in the Middle Ages. English mouths wore "Corinth" down to "currant." Later, when the unrelated Ribes berries arrived, people thought the little fruits resembled those dried Corinthian grapes and borrowed the name wholesale. So "whitecurrant" is, etymologically, a pale berry named after a dark grape from a Greek port it has nothing to do with.
- not white
- actually pale translucent gold, a marketing fib
- albino redcurrant
- same species, mutated to lose red color
- sweeter sibling
- less tart than its red counterpart
- see-through
- seeds visible inside the glassy berries
- vitamin c
- loaded enough to fight off scurvy
versailles blanc — french white currant variety cultivated since the 18th century at palace of versailles
white dutch currant — heritage variety grown commercially in netherlands and uk since 1600s
blanka currant — polish-bred white currant cultivar released in 1970s, widely grown in eastern europe