Strawberry

Yummy...I had strawberries for breakfast today. I realized that this fruit may not be available to everyone and that is why I want to share the pictures and some notes about this fruit. Usually I like to have them with yoghurt or ice cream but I didn't have any of those this morning, so just fresh strawberries on its own!

Etymology- Wikipedia

The name is derived from Old English strēawberiġe which is a compound of streaw meaning "straw" and berige meaning "berry". The reason for this is unclear. It may derive from the strawlike appearance of the runners, or from an obsolete denotation of straw, meaning "chaff", referring to the scattered appearance of the achenes.


Interestingly, in other Germanic countries there is a tradition of collecting wild strawberries by threading them on straws. In those countries people find straw-berry to be an easy word to learn considering their association with straws.


There is an alternative theory that the name derives from the Anglo-Saxon verb for "strew" (meaning to spread around) which was streabergen (Strea means "strew" and Bergen means "berry" or "fruit") and thence to streberie, straiberie, strauberie, straubery, strauberry, and finally, "strawberry", the word which we use today. The name might have come from the fact that the fruit and various runners appear "strewn" along the ground.



Photo caption: The traditional North European way of gathering strawberries