[net.nlang] kiwi fruit

chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is Bits) (04/24/85)

Yes, the Galloping Gourmet always called them "chinese gooseberries".  I have
no idea how they got this name, but once I remember seeing a vegetable with
a name of "chinese xxxxxxx"  (I don't remember what), and it was also larger
than a what we would view a normal xxxxxxx and brown and bristly on the outside.

L S Chabot
...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot
chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA  01752