What is a chinese gooseberry?!
What is a chinese gooseberry?
Answers:
kiwi fruit
In short a kiwi.
It's the Kiwi fruit. Don't know why it's got the name gooseberry, it doesn't taste anything like 'our' gooseberries!
It's an oriental person that likes to go out single with two partners I think?
A Lychee
its a kiwi fruit
lychee they're disgusting and tasteless
Kiwifruit. They're called Chinese Gooseberry because they originally came from China, were small... and hairy. Now the Kiwifruit which is a man-made species derived from that small Chinese Gooseberry plant, is the size of an egg... and hairy.
I personally can't stand them. Too sickly.
The kiwifruit (or kiwi fruit or kiwi) is the edible fruit of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia.
The most common cultivars of kiwifruit are oval, and about the size of a large hen's egg (5-8 cm long and 4.5-5.5 cm diameter). It has a fibrous, dull green-brown skin; the flesh is bright green or golden with rows of small, black, edible seeds. The texture of the fruit is soft and the flavour is sometimes described as a mix of strawberry, banana, and pineapple.
The fruit gets its name from a marketing strategy, naming it after the kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand, where the fruit was first commercially popularised in 1959 by the New Zealand fruit-and-vegetable export company Turners and Growers; previously it was known as the Chinese gooseberry, but due to the Cold War, the Chinese label seemed unfit for popularization of the fruit in Western countries. Growers gradually adopted the name and in 1974 the kiwifruit became the official trade name.
In North America, South America and Europe, the "fruit" part of the name is usually dropped, and most people associate "kiwi" with the fruit rather than the bird. This usage can cause some minor confusion and tends to annoy or offend many New Zealanders. To minimize confusion about what a "kiwi" is―a bird, a fruit or a New Zealander―most New Zealand Kiwifruit is now marketed under the brand-name label Zespri which is trademarked by a marketing company domiciled in New Zealand, ZESPRI International. The branding move also served to distinguish New Zealand kiwifruit from fruit produced by other countries who could cash in on the "Kiwi" name, as it was not trademarked.