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

submitted 2 weeks ago by time2lose@lemmy.world to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world

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[–] kettuli@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s the same in Finland, I was raised thinking that I was eating blueberries when they were, in fact, bilberries.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 20 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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!

[–] kettuli@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I stand corrected.

[–] Ihmes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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