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[–] 22 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Or storebought blueberries and wild bilberries?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

    I'm not a native speaker of English, and I've only recently learnt that the 'blueberries' I grew up foraging from the woods are in fact bilberries. Which is kind of interesting because although most people will call them blueberries, we have a regional name for them, 'brimbelles', that's kind of similar to bilberries when you squint your eyes.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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