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To: Ilaine who wrote (1521)	10/31/2002 2:08:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6901

CB, the branding of fruit is annoying. Kiwifruit were renamed from Chinese Gooseberries to give a NZ identity and a more catchy name. Unfortunately, as with USA fruit which arrives here, it's then image and superficial appearance of the fruit rather than the contents thereof that the marketers worry about. As a result, most fruit is bordering on or is actually inedible [unless really hungry and just after calories for survival]. It's picked way too soon so that it travels and stores better. So it never ripens properly. Kiwifruit as sold is toxic, like unripe pineapples, and will rip your mouth to pieces and prevent constipation. Well, if it's fully ripened, it's not always too bad. But vine-ripened kiwifruit is a delight. One can eat 10 of them and suffer no ill effects and the taste is great. Same with bananas. I would eat 100 kg a year if they were grown in the right conditions and harvested at the right time. Now I sadly try one now and then to eternal disappointment. Apples are picked, stored in cool stores, with old stock being taken out of storage for sale. So there is NEVER a decent apple to eat. A fully ripened Granny Smith with good size, just picked, is one of life's great delights. Sadly, not to be experienced by many people at all. Same with walnuts. They are usually rancid. I don't know what process they use to make them inedible, but it must take some effort. There's one green-grocer [Jack Lum's] which has high quality walnuts. I get those. Don't get me started on mangoes. I will never forget the mango I got on a stick with a squeeze of lemon juice on it in Mexico in 1977 when I learned that mangoes are amazingly delicious things. The sad and pathetic replicas sold in NZ are not worth anything other than to throw at trespassing cats [but far to expensive for that]. In India, the mangoes are the genuine article! Very yum and many kilograms were scoffed. Same with cashew nuts. They have the biggest and best I have ever seen. A kiwi is actually a flightless, stupid little bird which scuttles around in the bush at night, eating grubs, which is smells with it's nostrils at the tip of its long beak. That's the national emblem! We'd feel silly with something like an eagle as our emblem. Kiwi is: The bird The people Shoe polish Chinese gooseberries The NZ$ Kiwiburger = A McDonalds' hamburger in traditional NZ style with lettuce, tomato, onion, beetroot, [it doesn't have Kiwi bird meat in it - some visitors have thought it might be bird or even human, having heard of cannibalism here]. Actually, it's not traditional kiwi style - it's a Disneyland version. Mqurice

To: Ilaine who wrote (1521)	10/31/2002 3:22:18 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 6901

Yikes....! Were those bees in the house? You're much braver than I am...sugar water or no sugar water! Kiwi seems to be giving them wide berth as well....<g>