2007-03-25 11:48:12 · 13 answers · asked by renaebear07 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
When you pick them off of the bush they are blue, but when you get them wet or cook them they do turn a purplish blue color.
2007-03-25 12:30:04 · answer #1 · answered by Chelsey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England or
French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads,
which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese.
So, one moose, 2 meese?
One index, two indices?
Is cheese the plural of choose?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet
that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
These are all questions we wonder everyday.
BUT... I agree with everyone else blueberries do looke blue, not purple.
2007-03-25 18:52:11 · answer #2 · answered by QueRunner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In botanical world there is no purple only blue. I know that sounds like I'm being sarcastic but its true.
2007-03-25 18:52:02 · answer #3 · answered by gloria w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are actually blue, not purple.
2007-03-25 19:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by Tom ツ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They look blue to me. I guess blue is in the eye of the beholder. ~~~
2007-03-25 18:51:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because at the time they were named, saying "Purpleberry" was considered immoral.
2007-03-25 19:06:35 · answer #6 · answered by rer348 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
but the outside is blue?
2007-03-25 18:51:02 · answer #7 · answered by sunnysky4u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they look blue to me
2007-03-25 18:52:02 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the guy who named them was color blind
2007-03-25 18:50:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
would you rather call them purple berries?(didnt think so..)
2007-03-25 19:01:43 · answer #10 · answered by FlowerChild ✿ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋