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Please explain - curious “You'd think all kiwis would be related, sharing brown fuzz and being associated with New Zealand, but actually the kiwi fruit and kiw
by patrickhogan1 2y ago
Please explain - curious
“You'd think all kiwis would be related, sharing brown fuzz and being associated with New Zealand, but actually the kiwi fruit and kiwi bird diverged 1.4 billion years ago.”
- DrSAR 2y agoa decent stab at humour. I chuckled.
- patrickhogan1 2y agoHaha, same here! I ended up diving into a kiwi fruit rabbit hole. Apparently, the kiwi fruit was originally called the Chinese gooseberry but was rebranded by New Zealand fruit breeders as part of a marketing strategy. It’s funny looking at this picture: https://i.etsystatic.com/9032484/r/il/79babb/1458733776/il_fullxfull.1458733776_8i2p.jpg https://i.etsystatic.com/9032484/r/il/79babb/1458733776/il_f...
- klipt 2y agoNow that's cultural appropriation! Thousands of years of domestication and breeding by Chinese fruit growers, and then New Zealand takes all the credit!
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> Thousands of years of domestication and breeding by Chinese fruit growers, and then New Zealand takes all the credit! The kiwi does seem to have been domesticated by the Chinese, but you wouldn't want to infer that from the name "Chinese gooseberry". They could be like the Norwegian rat (also from China) or the "Persian" peach, prunus persica (which is from China too). Maybe you should just assume that everything comes from China.
- tuatoru 2y agoYa go' us bang to righ's, guv. Ih's a fair cop.
- biddendidden 2y ago[flagged]