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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That said, one of the alternate Chinese names for a kiwifruit is "yangtao" ("strawberry peach"), so you're not the first person to have that thought
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The "yang" in "yangtao" isn't actually the name for a strawberry, it comes from the "yangmei", a strawberry-like Chinese fruit that's called the "Chinese strawberry" in English This stuff gets complicated
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LIKE I WOULDN’T WANT TO BITE A CUTE MACAQUE!
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