Kiwi Appreciation Day

Thank you, New Zealand, for cultivating such awesome produce! These suckers cost an arm and a leg here in the US, I'm encouraging a bigger CO2 footprint and I'm probably taking jobs away from other Americans by buying them, but they are so durn delicious.



Here's to NZ! beautiful land, beautiful people

A light and fresh fruit, also one of my favorites.

Funny enough not from NZ, originally from china. Called chinese goesberry.
Developed in NZ and then the gave the roots away again so now grown in other parts of the world...

Interestingly they are not the ones we are used to in Oz for many years. Our traditional ones (from NZ) are a darker
green/brown colour with much more fur on the skin. The ones in the photo are similar to the ones I saw being promoted
(given away) in Spain last year. They are sort of yellow inside and fairly sweet. The ones I am used to in Oz are very
green inside and tangy. Having tried both I prefer the tangy variety rather than the sweet. I guess the later variety
has been developed so it has less fur and is thus a bit more marketable. I would have thought those in Europe
would like a bit more fur

yea the darker, furrier, smaller, more tangy variety are a common find in American grocery stores, not nearly as good IMO. I heard a story that these were once called "goose eggs" and later renamed to kiwis, which boosted sales.

The zespri brand and variety where developed to counteract the fact that the kiwis are grown all over the world and where not "kiwi" anymore.
Not sure if it was the right decision since we all still call them kiwis and nobody ever uses the name zespri.

Funny also that the green ones can be as juicy as the yellow zespri ones but the good ones are all exported to overseas countries.
It is impossible to buy any good ones in New Zealand as only the small miserable ones are kept in the country, the second go to Australia so they still taste crap.
The best ones I ever had where in Portugal, probably grown locally. They where the size of a big lemon and so sweet and juicy...jum!