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I like "tallowfruit" for this!

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Nope! Just its alternate-universe English name.

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We actually did call them "alligator pears" briefly, I think that's where the Chinese comes from.

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All I know is that I saw it on a menu from like the 1920s, somewhere in the US. Nothing more than that...