Where dose kiwi fruit come from?
Originally from China, the kiwifruit was once called a “Chinese gooseberry.” The Chinese originally exported seeds to Europe but they were from the same sex of plant (individual kiwi plants are either male or female and the female must be pollinated by the male to produce the fruit), so no fruit was produced. New Zealand was the first country to successfully pollinate the plant and produce the fruit. New Zealanders named it after the kiwi bird because it is small, oval, and fuzzy like the bird. They insist it be called kiwifruit because just saying “I ate a kiwi” means you ate either a New Zealand citizen or the national bird, both which are illegal.
