We just did a live English lesson about Feelings and Emotions on YouTube and this was the joke that appeared:
![](https://www.woodwardenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/what-do-you-call-a-sad-strawberry-joke.jpg)
Jokes can sometimes be difficult to understand when learning another language so don’t worry if you don’t understand THIS joke. I will try to explain it a little.
What do you call a sad strawberry?
– A blue berry
To feel BLUE is an English idiom that means to feel sad.
A blueberry is actually the name of another fruit.
Here is a picture of some strawberries and some blueberries.
![The difference between a strawberry and a blueberry with pictures - Learn English Vocabulary](https://www.woodwardenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/strawberry-vs-blueberry-difference.jpg)
There are many other types of berries such as blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, and more. (You can see more types in our English lesson about fruit)
So a strawberry is a type of berry.
If the strawberry is sad … you can also say it feels blue.
So it is a type of sad berry
So we changed the first part of the name strawberry to make it sound like a blue berry … a sad berry.
This sounds similar to the name of the other fruit: the blueberry (written with one word)