Why do they call red headed folks "gingers" when ginger isn't red?

or daywalkers, either way its great, plus ginge would be a cool nickname

I have no idea concerning what group started the name ginger’s but I have five “red” haired friends and they all have ginger colored hair by their own choice of a word when they describe their color of red and I would agree with them.

Eric Cartman?

exactly sir

I suspect it was probably the british who started it, people have been mocked in the UK for decades over being ginger.

@talljasperman But do they have souls? LOL

In Australia redheads (ginger-haired people) are called Blue as a nickname.

Where does that come from? I haven’t got a clue!

@Andreas That could possibly come from scotland, where they do seem to have a lot of ginger people, and some joke about their skin being blue from the cold. Billy Connoly has a few jokes about it.

@Andreas Nice rhyme.
What is an Australian kiss? It’s the same as a French kiss…only down under.

I’m going to guess that it’s a mashup of flavor and appearance. Appearance, because the so-called gingers are stereotypically pale – as is the ginger root – and flavor, because ginger is spicy, and ‘spicy’ means ‘red’.

Ginger kids are God’s clowns.

I know. Red hair isn’t really red. Maybe it comes from the color of ginger bread cookies. They’re pretty close to the hair color of a true redhead.

I myself do not. No, far more sensitive. Names like Rusty & Duracell are more “user friendly” I find :¬)

The earliest reference the Oxford English Dictionary has to ginger as a colour is from Richard Huloet’s dictionary of 1552, Abecedarium Anglo-Latinum, in which it refers to the colour of a cockerel. The earliest reference to it in regard to human hair is from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, published in 1864

yeah just read “my ginger baby angel” hahaha

@poisonedantidote Quite possibly so. My doctor (Scottish) once said that redhair (ginger) was the curse of the Celts. @Nullo makes an interesting point, too. Maybe the case.

@Joybird Nice rhyme? I can’t see it, but thanks for the compliment.
What is an Australian kiss? It’s the same as a French kiss…only down under. Refer to http://www.urbandictionary.com

@ucme Rusty & Duracell I haven’t heard Rusty much in Australia, so that may be an American import. Duracell? Only as a dry cell (battery)! ;-)

@Andreas American Import!?! Why I’m English sir, dash it all man. Jolly good show pip pip :¬)

@ucme Cherry pip, Old Bean! Sometimes we colonials make a dash-awkward job of it, What!

@Andreas That’s the spirit old fellow. I shall look forward to our chaps thrashing the Aussies arse in the ashes hawt hawt! :¬)

@ucme Piffle. But now we’re really OT. We’d better cut it out.