I’ve been a parent for close to 6 1/2 years, and in all that time I’ve held firmly to the “No red drinks in the house” rule. Well, my littlest guy has been asking and asking for cranberry juice every since he tried it at his aunt’s house a few months ago. He thinks it’s made with red crayons. Get it? Crayon-berry. Anyway, the cuteness finally caused me to relent and buy a liter bottle of antioxidant-packed cranberry-blueberry juice. I gave the kids strict instructions to drink it only while seated perfectly at the kitchen table. Twelve hours later (I kid you not–just 12 hours!) my darling child goes to fetch the “crayon-berry” juice out of the fridge and drops the whole thing. The lid breaks in two as the entire bottle skids into the next room–the room with beige carpeting, of course.
In honor of my dining room’s new color scheme, I thought I’d post about the color red today! Here’s how you say it in ten languages:
Spanish: rojo
French: rouge
German: rot
Dutch: rood
Italian: rosso
Portuguese: vermelho
Swahili: ekundu
Finnish: punainen
Latin: ruber
Swedish: rött
If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry! Enjoy this Ocean Spray cranberry juice commercial from Mexico:
