Etymology of Strawberry | Snopes.com
Fact Check Are strawberries so named because they are bedded in straw? Published Oct 4, 2003 Image Via romiri / Shutterstock ");}else if(is_tablet()){slot_number++;document.write(" Advertisment:
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On our drives through Oxnard, California, we are greeted by the sight of fields of strawberries. Yet look closely as we might, we never see any of these plants bedded in straw, the material and practice from whence they supposedly gained their name.
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