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.
It’s also a shoe polish 
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.
Polycarp: While your post o’ links was indeed a tour de farce, you overlooked the obvious one: Moosehead Beer
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!)
Rssurrection of a Moosie Thread, cause It’s feeeeels so gooood!
Moosies in MA Getting Mushed by Motorists.
Just thought I’d share.
In DC he’s a crackhead, here he’s a fruit: Eat a marionberry today!
I did, not long ago. Bitch set me up… with a damned fine pie!
No, it’s a pudding.
From Shirley Ujest’s link:
So don’t say I didn’t warn you!
: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.
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.
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.
I’ve noticed that in the UK, the bird called the Robin is nothing like the North American Robin. The American Robin is a Thrush while the UK bird looks more like a Wren. I could be wrong. It happens.
The North American Caribou is the same animal as the European Reindeer.
How do European Reindeer fly?
KLM.
[rimshot]
I just love moosies.
“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.
Crossword puzzles keep telling us, stoats in the summer are ermine in the winter.
What are elk in summer?
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.
Isn’t a wolverine a *carcajou * in Canada and a *glutton * in Europe?
