If blackberries are BLACK and blueberries are BLUE, then why aren't strawberries called RED berries...?!
Answers: ...and dingle berries called BROWN berries?
That question is weird and more than slightly wrong. Besides, neither strawberries or dingle berries are real berries. A strawberry is actually a compound fruit, and a dingle berry is something you got from straining to hard after a night of White Castle and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
One theory is that woodland pickers strung them on pieces of straw to carry them to market. Others believe that the surface of the fruit looks as if it's embedded with bits of straw. Still others think that the name comes from the Old English word meaning to strew, because the plant's runners stray in all directions and look as if they are strewn on the ground.
BTW red in Latin is "ruber" & "rufus". Rubus is New Latin for blackberry. Raspberries of the genus Rubus can be red, black, purple, or yellow. The raspberry was originally called simply a rasp. This is thought to be a back-formation from raspis, another term for a raspberry. Rasp dates from 1555 in the written record, and raspis from about 1532. One questionable source claims that raspis is Old English and refers to the "raspy" or hairy surface of raspberries - "raspy"
For the same reason they are called berries, if you call them what everyone else calls them, they will understand you when you use the word.
They are called Red Berries when they're in Special K - Special K Red Berries.
Probably because there a whole lot of "RED" berries.
I always thought they were called 'straw'berries because the farmer lays straw all around them in the field to insulate the roots and keep the weeds down.
On a separate note:
Had any dingle berry pie lately ??
Because the name was already taken by raspberries (genus Rubus, from rubeus meaning "red").
You could call dingle berries "brown berries", but in this case, I think the color name is the less colorful name. =)