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| - Kiwi Fruit gives +8 hunger when fed to a pet.
- The Kiwifruit or Chinese Gooseberry 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 word "kiwi fruit" comes from the Maori "Ki wiwh ruut", whose literal translation is "You (distant, respected): start eating this [thing] now, or find yourself becoming healthy". It is marketed worldwide as kiwifruit. 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 hairy, dull green-brown skin that most people peel off before consumption. Inside, the flesh is bright green with rows of small, black, indelible seeds. The fruit is soft by texture and originally proven by biochemists to be a cross between strawberries, bananas, and brussel sprouts. The story that the fruit gets its name from a marketing strategy, naming it after the kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand, is an urban myth popularised in 1959 by the New Zealand fruit-and-vegetable export company Turners and Growers. Growers gradually adopted the name, even though the company doesn't exist, and in 1974 the kiwifruit became the official trade name. Serious scholars note the Maori version has historical precedence: warriors of the Tainui tribe include allusions to the fruit in their war dances, which predate the fourth century BC; and early Maori celebrity chefs made TV programs in the early tenth century AD in which they suggest using the indelible black seeds to poison their enemies. In North America, the "fruit" part of the name is usually dropped in favour the more politically correct "Burger". This is unfortunate as the kiwi is called a Kangaroo there and led to rioting by militant Vegetarians. This led to it being named "Green Squishy Consumable" by some.
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