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Difference between store bought blueberries and ones from nature (lemmy.world)

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You did eat blueberries. In Scandinavian languages bilberries are called blueberries (blåbær, blåbär), because what Americans calls blueberries didn't exist there (the American sort was only introduced to Europe in the 1930s).

English isn't alone in deciding what is a blueberry and what isn't.

[–] matelt@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So really we should be calling those insipid, watery grape-sized 'blueberries' impostors. It ain't a blueberry if it doesn't stain your mouth purple!

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The wild North American blueberries (there are multiple species) are also small and flavorful. The giant, watery ones are a bred variety that you won't find in nature

[–] Ihmes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

We're eating mustikka over here, which translates to bilberry in english. The "blueberries" are pensasmustikka in finnish.

[–] kettuli@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I stand corrected.