I had a Cara Cara pink orange this morning. Really tasty, and I recommend them wholeheartedly. But it does raise some questions.
1) If it is pink, can we still call it an orange?
2) If the new orange is pink and orange is the new black, does this mean by the principle of transivity* that pink is the new black?
* In logic,  a  relation  between  three  elements  such  that  if  it  holds  between  the  first  and  second  and  it  also  holds  between  the  second  and  third  it  must  necessarily  hold  between  the  first  and  third: If A is bigger that B, and B is bigger than C, then A is bigger than C.
And if you think Sheldon Cooper would not have immediately wondered about this, you don't know Sheldon.  
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