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