(January 15, 2016 at 6:30 am)Losty Wrote:(January 15, 2016 at 6:27 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: I don't know, but the British are also called "limey", by inhabitants some of their ex-colonies, allegedly because of consumption of lime-juice enforced by the British navy, as a way to prevent scurvy. Understandably - most of the Brits encountered by people in America, or Australia would be in the navy. I'd venture a guess, that maybe pommegranite could have been used instead of limes by some sailors, but I base this on absolutely nothing.
According to Google it's because Brits look like pomegranates when they're sunburned hehe.
Supposedly it's the happy coincidence between that, plus that pomegranate sounds sufficiently like immigrant to make a workable insult.
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