You might want to set aside the anti-American prejudice, as you've got your facts completely wrong. T&G, the New Zealand kiwi company (founded in 1897 by an En

You might want to set aside the anti-American prejudice, as you've got your facts completely wrong. T&G, the New Zealand kiwi company (founded in 1897 by an England-born immigrant to New Zealand) started marketing their fruit as the kiwi in the US in 1959. This was presumably to get a leg up on their Chinese competitors and to associate the fruit with New Zealand instead of with China.