Kiwi Fruit

I have still remembered of "KIWI". One day I talked with my friend through messenger. She said she is working with a foreigner who is from New Zealand and often called 'kiwi guy'. First I didn't know the mean why "Kiwi guy?? = New Zealand??" Anyway I just could find it in dictionary at that time.
By the way, I have finally known the origin of the word "kiwi" because I found the reference to the word from some book. So I put it into my blog as it is. It is as follows.

KIWI FRUIT
Originally from China, they were imported to New Zealand in the early 1900s and renamed "Chinese Gooseberry." They finally made it to the U.S. in 1962, and a Los Angeles distributor named Frieda Caplan named it after the New Zealand national bird, the kiwi. It took 18 years before the American public started buying it.