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DrSAR | 1 year ago

a decent stab at humour. I chuckled.

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patrickhogan1|1 year ago

Haha, same here! I ended up diving into a kiwi fruit rabbit hole. Apparently, the kiwi fruit was originally called the Chinese gooseberry but was rebranded by New Zealand fruit breeders as part of a marketing strategy. It’s funny looking at this picture:

https://i.etsystatic.com/9032484/r/il/79babb/1458733776/il_f...

klipt|1 year ago

Now that's cultural appropriation! Thousands of years of domestication and breeding by Chinese fruit growers, and then New Zealand takes all the credit!