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| What's round, brown, fuzzy and green inside? |
Kiwi has
many meanings…
Guide: Invasive species.
Rats, cats, possums. Came in and wiped out all the flightless birds. That’s why
the kiwi is an endangered species now.
Tourist: Plenty of vitamin C
in kiwis.
Guide: I’m talking about the
bird. The fruit was named after the bird.
Tourist: There’s a kiwi
bird?
Guide: It’s brown and fuzzy.
Tourist: And green inside?
Sounds like the fruit.
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Voice-over
Likely as not, such a tourist didn't know the fruit is called yáng táo (sunny peach) in China. It arrived in New Zealand about 1900. Renamed in the 1940s as Chinese
gooseberry or melonette. Renamed again as “kiwifruit” in New Zealand in 1959 due to its
similarity with the kiwi bird being round, brown and fuzzy. Later varieties
include Golden Kiwi, EnzaRed and Zespri Gold. China claims it as their national
fruit with several other names such as: mí hóu táo (獼猴桃, macaque
peach), qí yì guǒ (奇異果, wonder fruit), téng lí (藤梨,vine pear), or máo mù guǒ (毛木果,hairy bush fruit). New Zealand branding seems to
have edged out Chinese names in the English marketing arena.
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1 comment:
It was literally never referred to as "hairy bush fruit."
This was a wikipedia vandalism that has now been repeated thousands of times. Take a look at the kiwi confession on this page.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/249rd9/whats_your_best_story_that_is_100_real_but_nobody/
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