# Moose in Sweden are called Elk. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003 "2004-11-10T12:24:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/41 "2004-11-11T06:48:10Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > There is a large gooseberry, sometimes known as the Chinese gooseberry, which was marketed by New Zealand growers as a kiwi-fruit and the name stuck, hence the gooseberry became known as the kiwi-fruit over much of the world. Except in the US for some reason where it became known as a kiwi. Ahhhh! Thank you for the explantion - I didn’t know any of that. I’m from Canada - and I was raised knowing that the kiwi was a bird, but also a name used for fuzzy brown fruit with little black seeds in a green pulp. 😉 We called the smaller berries, green, red, purple, or otherwise, “gooseberries”. I like this message board. I learns lots. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/42 "2004-11-11T07:18:51Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Ahhhh! Thank you for the explantion - I didn’t know any of that. > > I’m from Canada - and I was raised knowing that the kiwi was a bird, but also a name used for fuzzy brown fruit with little black seeds in a green pulp. 😉 . It’s also a [shoe polish](http://www.police-shop.com/kiwi_dose.gif)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/43 "2004-11-11T12:13:24Z")
A raspberry is a fruit and a rude mouth noise. If you combine the two, the raspberry fruit becomes a projectile. Spotted Dick in England is some kind of sausage. Spotted Dick anywhere else is a health hazard. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/44 "2004-11-11T15:01:29Z")
**Polycarp** : While your post o’ links was indeed a _tour de farce_, you overlooked the obvious one: [Moosehead Beer](http://www.mooseheadbeer.com/) As I’ve always said: Generous Canadian beer drinkers enjoy giving Moosehead. (Advisory: anyone bringing chocolate within a foot of my snout is likely to get er hand bit off!) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/45 "2005-04-11T19:24:31Z")
Rssurrection of a Moosie Thread, cause It’s feeeeels so gooood! [Moosies in MA Getting Mushed by Motorists.](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&e=1&u=/ap/20050411/ap_on_sc/apn_motoring_moose) Just thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/46 "2005-04-11T21:10:18Z")
In DC he’s a crackhead, here he’s a fruit: [Eat a marionberry today!](http://www.marionberries.com/home.htm) I did, not long ago. Bitch set me up… with a damned fine pie! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/47 "2005-04-11T21:42:26Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Spotted Dick in England is some kind of sausage. No, it’s a pudding. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/48 "2005-04-12T15:59:50Z")
From **Shirley Ujest** ’s link: > [@](#): > > A bull moose in pursuit of his lady love is not going to pause to let a minivan pass. So don’t say I didn’t warn you! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/49 "2005-04-12T16:41:01Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > In DC he’s a crackhead, here he’s a fruit: [Eat a marionberry today!](http://www.marionberries.com/home.htm) > > I did, not long ago. Bitch set me up… with a damned fine pie! :dubious: And here I thought all those yummy things I was eating during my trip to Oregon were blackberries. Funny, since they looked and tasted just like blackberries. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/50 "2005-04-12T19:31:16Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > A raspberry is a fruit and a rude mouth noise. And, as an aside to the whole “Americans don’t quite get it” slant here, a rare example of rhyming slang used in ordinary AmerEnglish (raspberry tart = fart). Known for other reasons as a Bronx cheer. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/51 "2005-04-12T19:56:08Z")
It is a given on The Straight Dope that any thread about sharks or lasers will mention the other and add in a frikin or two. And it also seems that any thread dealing with moose will end up with a recitation of the subtitles from the opening credits of MP&THG. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/52 "2005-04-12T20:17:34Z")
I’ve noticed that in the UK, the bird called the [Robin](http://homepage.virgin.net/cliff.buckton/Birding/England/Robin.htm) is nothing like the [North American Robin](http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Robin.html). The American Robin is a Thrush while the UK bird looks more like a Wren. I could be wrong. It happens. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/53 "2005-04-12T20:54:57Z")
The North American Caribou is the same animal as the European Reindeer. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/54 "2005-04-12T23:08:06Z")
> [@Quint](#): > > The North American Caribou is the same animal as the European Reindeer. How do European Reindeer fly? KLM. [rimshot] I just love moosies. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/55 "2005-04-13T00:02:26Z")
“The Tragic Encounter of a Moose and a Locomotive” (possibly by Robert W. Service) Consider this beast of the frozen Northeast With its annual amorous craze on, Seduced by the toot of a choochoo en route Into making a fatal liaison. Conceive of its size as it straddles the ties, Unaware of the killer it’s dating. The honk of the train has gone straight to his brain And his mind is completely on mating. Appalling? Of course. But think how much worse It would be, and no words shall weasel Should an engine tear loose from its tracks When a moose Makes what sounds like The call of a diesel. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/56 "2005-04-13T07:01:43Z")
Crossword puzzles keep telling us, **stoats** in the summer are **ermine** in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/57 "2005-04-13T10:46:36Z")
What are elk in summer? (Ans: [Eine real schvingin’ Cherman chyk.](http://www.swinginchicks.com/elkesommer.htm)) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/58 "2005-04-13T17:48:50Z")
There is a small, smooth berry that grows abundantly here that is called a ‘crowberry’. Eskimos call it a ‘blackberry’, but my idea of a blackberry is something that resembles a black raspberry or a computing device. Moose are moose, but a caribou may be a reindeer. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/59 "2005-06-12T01:42:39Z")
[Moosie suicide squadrod](http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=114891) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003/60 "2005-06-12T02:34:44Z")
Isn’t a wolverine a \*carcajou \* in Canada and a \*glutton \* in Europe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-sweden-are-called-elk/274003.md?page=4)