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In Australia, "pawpaw" is a name for the yellow papaya, a variety of Carica papaya.

If the person you replied to both 1) is Australian, and 2) did not read enough of the article to realize it was not talking about yellow papaya, then their confusion is legitimate.

Fruit naming is a disaster. Breadfruit have very little wheat in them and a pineapple is not a pine or an apple.

not just fruit; would you care for a sweetbread sandwich?

I'd love one. Sounds offal.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/134659/why-is-pi...

case in point

It's called a pineapple because it looks like a pinecone, and pineapple is an older term for a pinecone (the "apple" being a somewhat archaic generic term for fruits).

And don't get me started on North Americans and "yams" for sweet potates/kumaras.

Or "yuca" for edible cassava, which is nothing to do with inedible "yucca".