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 do think hard cider is a greatly underappreciated alcoholic beverage, and the reputation of cider took a really unfortunate hard hit thanks to Prohibition -- since unlike with beer or wine, the US was the world's center of "cider culture"
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Tons of highly-regarded varieties of cider apples were lost, as orchard owners hastily replaced them with the cheapest, hardiest eating apple varieties to desperately try to stay in business Same with vineyard owners and table grapes It was a bad scene for everybody
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