[rktman]

What about Kiwis? Like calling New Zealanders fruit. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) :>}

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It’s more like calling them birds — the kiwi being their national bird. The fruit is properly called “kiwifruit”.

[X Fretensis]

believe the reference to New Zealanders being kiwis is from the kiwi bird (native only to New Zealand), not the fruit.

[foreverfree]

What about Kiwis? Like calling New Zealanders fruit.

Or shoe polish.

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