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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm from the west coast as well (born and raised in WA, currently live in Utah). Maybe it's regional? If someone said "box of strawberries," my thoughts go to those "you pick" places where you fill up an open-top cardboard box of strawberries, or those fruit stands that sell those same cardboard boxes of strawberries. I've never called the plastic clamshell containers a "box" though.

But yeah, I'd probably understand you given context, but it's not how I'd refer to them.

Words can be pretty regional, so maybe it's a Cali thing. Idk, my family in Cali are immigrants who speak a different language, so I don't think I've ever heard to them refer to the container of strawberries in English.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I was raised my a combo of east coast and mid west, but I'm PNW as well. It took me until my late twenties for anyone to call me out on 'irregardless' out here since that's just what grandpa said to me.

I gotta ask around now. I had a few roommates that referred to them as a box that may be overrepresenting.

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