As a child, I ate European gooseberries (top). I have never seen these in Africa. Here we have the Cape gooseberry (bottom). The European gooseberry is related to the currant, while the Cape gooseberry is related to the tomato. Although it is called the Cape gooseberry, it in fact originates in South America. Not that I can well remember the taste of the gooseberries of my childhood, but the Cape gooseberry probably is more aromatic and more sour.Monday, August 18, 2014
Gooseberries
As a child, I ate European gooseberries (top). I have never seen these in Africa. Here we have the Cape gooseberry (bottom). The European gooseberry is related to the currant, while the Cape gooseberry is related to the tomato. Although it is called the Cape gooseberry, it in fact originates in South America. Not that I can well remember the taste of the gooseberries of my childhood, but the Cape gooseberry probably is more aromatic and more sour.
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Caped Gooseberries, says an e-mail I received, not Cape Gooseberries. Yet the notion that the name refers to the cape that they wear traces back only to the mid 1900's, which means that Caped Gooseberries could well be what is called a folk etymology, made up after the fact.
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