2. What have strawberries to do with straw?
You may have heard that strawberries are so called because Victorian children would pick them and thread them on to pieces of straw. (They didn’t have television so took their entertainment where they could find it.) That theory is wrong. The name dates back over 1,000 years. That’s before they were cultivated (they were simply picked wild), so the name isn’t related to mulching with straw, either. The best guess is that the runners of the plant, growing rampant in the wild, look like pieces of straw.