Kiwifruit industry in New Zealand and Growers, who were calling the berries "melonettes", because the local name for the fruit, "Chinese gooseberry", had political connotations due to the Cold War, and to further distinguish it from real gooseberries, which are prone to a fungus called anthracnose. An American importer, Norman Sondag of San Francisco, complained that "melonettes" was as bad as "Chinese gooseberry" because melons and berries were both subject to high import tariffs, and instead asked for a short Maori name that quickly connoted New Zealand. In June 1959, during a meeting of Turners and Growers management in Auckland, Jack Turner suggested the name
Felix and the Fruit Monsters Felix and the Fruit Monsters Felix and the Fruit Monsters is a video game released by Micro Power for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron in 1983. It is a sequel to the earlier game "Felix in the Factory". The game is a sort of "Pac-Man" clone, in which the player moves around a maze collecting fruit and avoiding the fruit monsters. It was not as successful as the earlier Felix game. It was followed by another sequel, "Felix Meets the Evil Weevils". While using the same character as "Felix in the Factory", the gameplay bears no relation to that