The redhead, ginger, color link comes from early season ginger, which has reddish pink tips around the leaves right above the fresh root.
replyPeople will still refer to redheads as "ginger" but only some of the time
replyThat's a fairly new thing. Growing up, I never heard anyone use "ginger" in that way. It was always "redhead." Or sometimes "strawberry blonde" for lighter shades.
replyMillennial checking in, ginger was used all the time when I was a kid
replyOnly a ginger should call another person ginger.
replyIn UK English ginger isn't exactly a color either. It's not like yellow or orange. It's a state of being.
replyI don't know why this is being downvoted. Does "ginger-colored" sound right to you? It doesn't quite work.
It's true. A person is ginger, but nobody ever says things are ginger coloured. Ginger isn't even really one colour - it's a spectrum of orange-containing hair colours.
replyIf you would then please explain the "kick a ginger day" from SouthPark
replySouth Park popularized it. It was known but not common before that where I lived. It also popularized harassing them in general at my school.
replyWere there many reds around when you were growing up? My family is full of redheads, and ginger was a well known term to me. I'm much older than South Park
replyNo, only a couple that I knew of. My area was mostly Mexican, then white, then native, then everything else.
replyOld south-park is no longer culturally relevant.
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