A minor pitting in the grand scheme of things but is it so hard to market Saskatoon berries? If you can get the average American consumer to pronounce acai fucking berries calling Saskatoons “june berries” isn’t going to strengthen your case.
If the name is so reassuring, why not do the same with all the fruit? We can call acai “Brazil berries”, and pineapples “Patriot fruit”!
Fuck you and your (je)june berries!
I would say “who cares,” but at least three people do. The Cornell contractor, the reporter, and the OP who for some reason thinks this deserves widespread attention.
I LIKE the name “Saskatoon berries.”
For one thing, it serves as a reminder that “Saskatoon” is an actual place, and not just a quasi-funny-sounding nickname for Saskatchewan.
cf. “Kackalackee” for North or South Carolina.
What are the berries like?
I’ve been there in the winter. The locals were talking about a heat wave with daytime highs only few degrees below freezing.
They are kind of like blueberries but the taste is somewhat softer and slightly more tart and for want of a better word almost woody. They are great in pies and jams.
Knowed Out, I did state in my OP that this wasn’t exactly Earth shattering, but it annoys me that something like this has to be “managed”.
I’m still getting over the fact that they tacked the word “berry” on the end. It’s not like there’s some ambiguity when someone says, “I’m going to eat three saskatoon pies”
Well yeah, if Americans already call them something else. It’s hard to sell lifts, petrol, and lorries in the US too if you don’t use the American names for those products.
Be glad they’re not picked in Regina.
or Dingle, Idaho
My great-grandfather is, apparently, as close to Saskatoon royalty as one can get, though I’ve never been there. But I do remember visiting my grandparent’s cattle ranch as a child, near Calgary, and picking wild Saskatoon berries, and they were delicious. Tasted a lot like blueberries, from what I remember.
They taste like home. 
Blue, black, straw, rasp, cran, goose, bar, bay…I realize there are a few exceptions, but on the whole us 'merkins like our berries to have one-syllable prefixes. Even “marion” is shorter than “Saskatoon.” Our mouths are lazy that way, so sue.
‘Saskatoons’ has the same number of syllables as ‘strawberries.’
Does the OP still call canola rapeseed?
Dude, have you met America?
They could call them Chinese Gooseberries.
I heard that one is available.
I don’t know how to pronounce acai berries.
The valid comparison is to “straw”, not “strawberries”.
Were you equally irritated when they renamed canola oil?
Considering that the berries aren’t exclusive to Canada, and do grow wild in the NW/N. Central US, where they’re called by a handful of names, including juneberries, this seems like a rant without a purpose.