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- "Você come carne vermelha."
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Red meat is more accurate. Beef only if it's generally speaking, because sometimes people use "carne vermelha" to refer to any bovine meat.
Thank you!! Por favor diga isso à minha mãe. Lol. I know that it starts out red when raw but when cooked turns somewhat whitish. My mom insists that you use white wine for pork since it's white meat, but I say that one should use vinho tinto porque a carne é vermelha. LOL XD
It was marketed as, "the other white meat" to associate it with chicken when red meat was considered less healthy. They did a lot of questionable, even unethical and certainly unhealthful things to pigs to get their meat paler, leaner, and in the end, tougher (the last not one of their marketing strategies).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork._The_Other_White_Meat
It is also subliminal advertising that has people eating pork for breakfast (spearheaded by a Jewish man no less), as well as to get women smoking and shaving everything. There was something to sell, so marketing was made to create a market.
http://www.americantable.org/2012/07/how-bacon-and-eggs-became-the-american-breakfast/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
If we knew how we were manipulated we'd be far more powerful, and probably happier as well.
But of course we'd be smarter too. =]
Porque não!. você fala maça vermelha? não, porque ela ja é vermelha
Why not!. you talk apple red? not, because it is already red
dude when replying back to someone and you are teaching them a language make sure you get things right why not is three words not two por que why is two words and not one porque spelt together means because. Always spell things right because we learners can get confused.
Well let's confuse the learners a bit more and point out that in European Portuguese (which also covers Asia and Africa) there are just "porque" and "porquê" and both are single words (unlike the 4 versions in Brazil). The only time it seems separate is when it means separate words (for what...).
Not both wrong...it is own of country, you can say that yes but there is no sense why? Because as spanish as portuguese red meat is use to call beef not red beef i think that you over saying that the meat is red and over red, also the apple has diferent colors like green not always
Nope. Colo(u)rs are almost always (i.e. outside the realm of poetry) placed after the noun.
You may see some cases where it seems like you have the colo(u)r after before the noun, but you're either mistaking it for an actual noun (for example, the PT-PT word for blood orange is laranja vermelha, but here "laranja" is the fruit, therefore a noun) or just a specific shade of a certain colo(u)r ("vermelho sangue" - blood red, i.e.; "verde alface" - lettuce green; "verde limão [Br.] / verde lima [Pt.]" - lime green) and the whole block should be treated as a single colo(u)r, placed after the noun it is qualifying ("uma parede verde limão" - A lime green wall).
A color only appears naturally before a noun when itself is used as a noun (o azul do mar = the blue [colo(u)r] of the sea), and in those situations it's always separated from the second noun by a preposition, usually "de".
