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Subject: kiwi fruit
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 14:56:45 EST
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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
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