What color is a red herring?!
What color is a red herring?
Answers: That's irrelevant! No colour, it's a phrase, not a fish. A red herring is an euphemism meaning an object or clue designed to lead you one way when you should be going another.
I have a feeling you were kidding, though, so whatever. Before or after cooking? A red herring is a metaphor for a diversion or distraction from an original objective Green