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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I quite liked it. Showed origin and they do look a bit like a gooseberry. Kiwi fruit always seemed lame as a name to me. Monkey peach is better.
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Which bit of the gooseberry looks like a Kiwifruit?pic.twitter.com/gokj3XzZiz
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I’d also heard it was ‘berries’ that had the tariff. Might have been the ‘Chinese’ part of the name that raised eyebrows. When I was a kid they were called Chinese gooseberries. We had gooseberries in the garden and they were nothing like Kiwifruit.
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