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Anna Pavlova the ballerina toured New Zealand and the desert was made at that time and named after Pavlova herself, deemed to be as light as air.

Kiwifruit: one of the biggest marketing blunders of all time. Chinese Gooseberries, prevalent in New Zealand gardens and one of the warm memories of childhood. In the 70's this fruit was renamed Kiwifruit and grew to be a huge export product. Unfortunately, so much money was invested into the growing of the fruit and the logistics of exporting around the world that someone, somewhere omitted to B R A N D this scrumptious fruit. Thus 'Kiwifruit' is now the generic name of the aforementioned Chinese Gooseberry and anyone from anywhere can grow hairy berries and call them kiwifruit. This of course diminishes the Kiwi connection. Of course, the Chinese made the same mistake sometime earlier in the history of the fruit

When kiwifruit are in season I can buy lovely export quality fruit at my local supermarket...usually 2 for $US1. At the moment there are some shrivelled up little South American ones in store - or the undersized Californian ones. They are the same price!!! I spoke to a produce guy about them once and, to my chagrin, he told me he had no idea that New Zealand Kiwifruit were any different to kiwifruit from any other part of the world. They were simply 'kiwifruit'.

Oh Shame New Zealand!!

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Kiwi fruit is from China

Kiwi fruit is different to the old Chinese gooseberries we ate here in the '60's. It has been improved with NZ horticultural adaptations to the fruits the world has come to know us for. Hmmmm.... Aussie Fruits? Saw some of them in Kings Cross... Les Girls... :wink:

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Anna Pavlova the ballerina toured New Zealand and the desert was made at that time and named after Pavlova herself, deemed to be as light as air.

Aussies are pretty quick to adopt Kiwi goodies. Let me see, Sir Joh, Pauline Hanson.... Aussies have great taste huh

My God, is Pauline Hanson one of ours :?: :?: :?: Shshshsh, don't tell anyone, who would want to claim her :?: :oops: I reckon the Aussies can claim her all they want. And anyway old Jo is dead now, so he can go anywhere he likes. :twisted:

Who was Pauline Hanson???? Never heard of her.

Yep, us Aussies have taken on and copied a lot of pretty stupid things in our history, I think it's because we are letting men do most of the decision making still! Forgiven, Pauline Hansen was a political runner in Australia with fairly right wing, racist views. You haven't missed anything.

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because we are letting men do most of the decision making still!

Ah, men! :roll:

forgiven, I notice that no one has answered your question re what bread we have available in NZ: we have a lovely array of breads, from sliced to whole, white, brown, wholemeal, wholegrain, through to dark German type rye breads. When I lived in the UK I used to dream of the variety of bread we had back home in NZ. We are very lucky. My favourites are the grainy breads, especially the specialist breads and especially with home made soup. Yum!