alligator pear

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Same with avocado, which achieved superstardom after dropping the name “alligator pear.”

From Salon

At some point by the late 19th century, Americans had begun to call the crop the “alligator pear,” another name in which growers saw their own ruin.

From Time

Avocado: With their green, bumpy skin and pear shape, avocados have been aptly dubbed “alligator pears,” and are loaded with fat.

From Washington Times

Nor was the name alligator pear, which it had become known by.

From The Guardian

In the 1920s, the fruit – already an early example of rebranding, having floundered under the unappetising early moniker of “alligator pear” – began to appear in elegant recipes in Vogue and the New Yorker.

From The Guardian