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What were strawberries called before we started growing them above straw?

The straw in strawberry probably has no relation to the straw used as plant bedding, aside from being cognate. If you're common (your language is dominated by words with Germanic roots), they have always been strawberries, wild ones being strewn across the floor of the woodland

The hybrid created for commercial production was developed in France, so they probably came to posh (language contains a higher proportion of words with French roots) tables in England as fraises, a word which is cognate with fragrant and fragaria, the genus which includes the strawberries.