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So-called Chinese gooseberries have nothing to do with gooseberries. The Chinese name is something like “monkey peaches”. “Kiwifruit” is certainly no more misle
by jacobolus 6y ago
So-called Chinese gooseberries have nothing to do with gooseberries. The Chinese name is something like “monkey peaches”. “Kiwifruit” is certainly no more misleading than either of those names.
- Taniwha 6y agoThey were called "Chinese Gooseberries" in NZ before they were called "kiwifruit"
- markdown 6y agoKinda related: Aussies are trying to pull of a similar scam, renaming a Bolivian fruit called achachairu. Check it.. this is supposedly a "news" website calling the fruit by a name made up by Aussie marketers: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2014-06-19/gallery-achacha-fruit/5531796?nw=0 https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2014-06-19/gallery-achacha...
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoIs the ordinary Bolivian name achachairú and the Australian grower is marketing it as achacha? I dunno if I'd get my titties in a tangle over that. It's not like they're renaming it to Burdekin Fruit.