In Spanish, you might refer to your sweetheart as your media naranja, or “half orange,” the idea being that an orange sliced perfectly in half has two mirror images — in other words, the perfect match. The Spanish word media can mean either “half” or “sock,” and pairing it with naranja produces a great visual pun. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Media Naranja, Your Half Orange Sweetie”
You know we were talking earlier about the word orange and which came first the fruit or the color.
And we talked about the Spanish word for orange which is naranja and it reminded me of this joke.
In Spanish there’s there’s a long tradition of referring to your sweetheart as your media naranja. It’s like half orange. It’s the other half of the orange, you know, like the two of you have been looking for each other and the two of you form a whole orange. But the pun here is that media means half in Spanish, but it also means sock, you know, like you wear on your foot. And I don’t know if that’s because it used to go halfway up your leg or what. And so you can look online and see all these adorable cards that people give to each other where they have an orange sock. So it’s media naranja. You are my orange sock.
Oh, that’s lovely. How sweet.
Right? It’s really sweet.
