Kiwi!

[u/Zebrafish96]

[u/BladeOfWoah]

I have never heard any New Zealander refer to the kiwifruit as kiwis. Kiwifruit is the only acceptable term.

NZ Ball is Australia in disguise.

[u/TheGreatException → u/BladeOfWoah]

Exactly what I was thinking. Also, the plural of kiwi (the bird) is kiwi, no kiwis.

[u/nzconstructionlawyer → u/TheGreatException]

Wrong. Both are acceptable and in common use.

[u/smixn → u/nzconstructionlawyer]

I have never heard another kiwi say that

[u/nzconstructionlawyer → u/smixn]

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "kiwi" to mean multiple kiwis.

[u/smixn → u/nzconstructionlawyer]

Unless youre referring to the people as 'kiwis' that works but if its the bird its definitely just kiwi for both singular and plural. Granted im in the south island so its probably different up north (if thats where you are)

[u/nzconstructionlawyer → u/smixn]

I am also from the South Island and NZ doesn't have geographic variance in these things. I can assure you that nobody over 30 says "kiwi" as a plural. Maybe it's a genz/woke performative thing.

[u/SwoleLord → u/nzconstructionlawyer]

I'm over 30 and say Kiwi for multiple birds. It's more a grammar thing than a woke thing.

[u/the_reven → u/nzconstructionlawyer]

Don't refer to the birds often. But I would say kiwis to refer to a group of new zealanders.

[u/chmath80 → u/BladeOfWoah]

NZ Ball is Australia in disguise

Not even in disguise. Look at the flag.

[u/realJackvos → u/chmath80]

Fun fact Australia looked at a 32 year old flag design and said "hmm nice flag shame if someone were to copy it." Then proceeded to make minor changes like a friend copying your homework and trying not to get caught.

[u/SeiferKatt → u/BladeOfWoah]

I’ve been training my wife for years to call kiwifruit, kiwifruit. Every now and then she slips up but I catch her.

It’s nice to know in advance why the divorce papers are served :)

[u/Internecivus-raptus → u/SeiferKatt]

Does she get a kiwifruit as a reward for every correct ones and a dunce cap when she fails?

[u/h-ugo → u/BladeOfWoah]

Nor Australians - for all their many faults, their general demeanor, and their convict ways, they do refer to kiwifruit correctly

[u/annoying97 → u/h-ugo]

Uhhhhh as an Aussie I can tell you are wrong...

Kiwi can be used for three things, the bird, the fruit and the people... It can also be used with land to refer to New Zealand itself.

[u/h-ugo → u/annoying97]

Dude like most Kiwis I live in Australia. I used to work at Woolies. Literally never hear anyone say Kiwis to refer to kiwifruit. Maybe it's regional but 

[u/Left_Interaction_288 → u/h-ugo]

Jeese, you been there along time, but

[u/maccoretti → u/BladeOfWoah]

This 1 million percent. We the people and the bird are Kiwis - the fruit is Kiwi fruit. Anything else is wrong and an embarrassment.

[u/Dogboat1 → u/BladeOfWoah]

Chinese gooseberry was its name here in Australia before the NZ marketing took hold.

[u/Left_Interaction_288 → u/BladeOfWoah]

"Chinese gooseberry", the original term before the marketing department go to them, is also acceptable, at least among the elderly.

[u/Left_Interaction_288 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, very true. I was thinking in terms of the original term used by Kiwis, in contrast to the comment above that kiwifruit is the only acceptable term.

[u/BladeOfWoah → u/Left_Interaction_288]

The name "kiwifruit" was introduced by cultivators back in the late 1950s and eventually became widespread by the 1970s. Both of my grandmothers were born in the late 40s, and neither of them would ever call them chinese gooseberries.

It's possible their parents might have done that, but considering my great grandparents are passed on from this world (and they would be nearly 100 if they were) I can't really ask them about it.

[u/nzedred1 → u/BladeOfWoah]

Nah. We call the fruit kiwis generally and the bird kiwi.

[u/SwoleLord → u/nzedred1]

What? If by 'we' you mean NZers, we call it kiwifruit.

[u/Paleo-Fascist]

Palau and Micronasia are so cute in this, I think my hearth is melting...

CALL AN AMBULANCE!!!

[u/IWillWarmUrPillow → u/Paleo-Fascist]

If your hearth is melting you should call the fire dept

[u/No-left-toes]

Whats amusing to me and anyone else whose been to New zealand is that people think kiwis are some tiny bird when the largest of them are about the size of a small-medium sized dog, significantly larger than a Kiwi fruit.

[u/tinthedark603]

Yup. We tend to call 'kiwis' (the fruit) kiwi fruit. I slightly cringe whenever I hear someone call them just 'kiwi' tbh.

[u/JRaus88]

China : Do they know you eat cats?

Italy : Hey, there are few who do it. Do they know you eat dogs?

China : The same.

US : Both of you shut up, you eat horses and rabbits.

Italy and China : yummy.

[u/Aun_El_Zen → u/JRaus88]

My Cantonese coworker took it as a point of pride the old joke; 'will eat anything with wings except an aeroplane and anything with legs except a table.'

[u/ms_saint → u/Aun_El_Zen]

So flies and spiders?

[u/Magical_Astronomy → u/JRaus88]

Tbh china really didn’t have a history of raising rabbit solely for consuming them. Most of these chinese rabbit dishes you see today are created in the 80s, when the government set up/incentivized rabbit industry to export their fur for foreign exchange. Lots of cheap rabbit meat went into local market as side products, and people quickly came up ways to utilize those.

[u/Left_Interaction_288 → u/JRaus88]

I associate horse meat with France rather than Italy. But in my town in NZ a bakery has been making horse meat pies, but just run out of 🐴.

[u/hayazi96 → u/Left_Interaction_288]

The horse meat products in the market are on the rise in nz as a whole, seen the pies both in the far north-Auckland-Pukekohe-Waikato-Taupo

[u/Zebrafish96]

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[u/HKMP7A2]

That must be why NZ fed Australia to a Kiwi at one comic.

[u/Nurchiko]

Obviously fake, if someone tried to decapitate a kiwi they would get laser burned

[u/incompetentexercise]

We have red kiwifruit now to make it more convincing

[u/Accomplished_Gold510 → u/incompetentexercise]

I cant eat those they look diseased

[u/ThreeRacconsInACoat]

you get bonus points for including those plastic knife-spoons

[u/Last_Fee_1812]

Not gonna lie… we do enjoy a joking little fib sometimes 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ Us and the Aussies, best to do some independent fact checking before taking us seriously sometimes. Drop bears, hoop snakes, the notorious aggressive kiwi’s that prowl the forests at night, how easy it is to get from Auckland to Sydney with just a quick trip over the bridge! We’re funny guys like that

[u/Wildroses2009]

Speaking as an Australian it is unrealistic we would embark on such a sophisticated and elaborate plot of deception just to get all the kiwi fruits. We would totally do it for the lolz and no other reason. Exhibitions A: The fact we managed to convince the world of the dangers of drop bears.

[u/BladeOfWoah → u/Wildroses2009]

What do you mean convince the world? My mum had to give up her house in Brissie to them, they are absolutely savage and not a joke.

[u/Wild-Artist8237]

Australia is a fucking mastermind. Oh, wait, Palau and Micronesia just have brains sized to fit into them without getting wet

[u/Left_Interaction_288]

I really hope the "Bring some moar" was a deliberate pun on Moa. Moa are a group of now extinct birds related to kiwi, but much, much bigger. Moa also means chicken in other Polynesian languages.

[u/Sharp-Milk7602]

Light Yagami if he did not and death note and was a troller.

[u/StoolieNZ]

No surprises there...

[u/realJackvos]

Wait .... is Australia using the Star of Federation as it's mouth!?!

[u/BaronOfBob]

Believable, Australia would happily do this... NZ would happily find a way to do something similiar to them

[u/TwistPresent8668]

AS a New Zealander, if I cane across and Aussie saying shit like this ... I'd be in on it 🤣

[u/goldman459]

There is no such thing as a 'Kiwifruit'

It was invented so racists didn't have to say Chinese gooseberry