Anyone heard of chinese gooseberries?

Sep 18, 2024
3:50:46pm

conetah All-American

Meet the Queen of Kiwi: The 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America's Produce Aisle (ENCORE)

Listen to this episode from Gastropod on Spotify. The produce section of most American supermarkets in the 1950s was minimal to a fault, with only a few dozen fruits and vegetables to choose from: perhaps one kind of apple, one kind of lettuce, a yellow onion, a pile of bananas. Today, grocery...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ryUjay42c1jTKI14zscSh?si=061e6050796d425e

Wikipedia

Kiwifruit

Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside New Zealand and Australia) or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia. The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward') is oval, about the size of a large hen's egg: 5–8...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit

Apparently the LDS church had a small part in bringing them to the USA. Pretty good podcast episode if you can ignore her over annunciation of all words.