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A gooseberry with a fur coat and a marketing degree.
means The fuzzy brown-skinned, green-fleshed fruit of the Chinese gooseberry vine, now grown worldwide and eaten by slicing it in half and spooning out the inside.
from The plant is native to China, where it was called 'Chinese gooseberry' in English. New Zealand growers began cultivating it commercially in the 20th century, and for export (especially to the US) rebranded it as 'kiwifruit' after the kiwi bird, New Zealand's fuzzy, brown, flightless national symbol — a marketing move, not a botanical one, since the fruit has no real kinship to gooseberries or kiwi birds beyond looks.
- original name
- renamed from Chinese gooseberry for Cold War branding
- vitamin c
- beats an orange, gram for gram
- color origin
- named after the flightless bird, not vice versa
- skin
- edible, fuzz and all, most just avoid it