A while ago I learned the original Chinese name for a kiwifruit (which is originally from China, and was rebranded as a New Zealand thing thanks to Cold War tensions) is a "monkey peach" This is a 1000x better name and makes me far more interested in eating them
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It's technically more specific than "monkey", it's a "macaque peach" (mihoutao) I'm not clear on whether it's because they have brown fur like a macaque or because macaques eat them (The latter doesn't make sense to me - do macaques not eat regular peaches)
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Anyway I'm a little mad because New Zealand did successfully steal the brand of this fruit, even though the majority of kiwifruit are still grown in China Even my mom thought kiwifruit were from New Zealand when I told her about this
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She totally had one of those "I was today years old" moments where the wheels turned in her head and she was like "Wait, mahoutao and kiwifruit are the same thing?" (She hadn't heard them called by the former name since childhood)
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I guess that's a translation of the Chinese name, I think it was only ever "Chinese gooseberry" in English, which is also lame as hell https://nzhistory.govt.nz/the-chinese-gooseberry-becomes-the-kiwifruit#:~:text=The%20prominent%20produce%20company%20Turners,not%20native%20to%20New%20Zealand ….
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I dunno man. “Monkey Peach” sounds too much like a euphemism, and I’m afraid I’d speculate just as I bite into it
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extreme "this is a euphemism for balls" energy
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One NZ comedian referred to another as "kiwifruit". Because he was small, furry, and probably diseased.
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I love it too (and am bummed the huge ones I used to buy when living in Japan are not found in the States.
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