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I won't say I have your knowledge of kiwi fruit production... but when I read "English countryside, 1920s" and then "kiwi", my instincts made me uneasy. I couldn't have explained just why that wasn't right, but it felt wrong, anachronistic (as in fact it was). Of course, that may come from having read a number of books written in various times and places. It seems to have given me a fairly reliable if far from infallible sense of what is "off".

As for "rethermalization"... whenever I hit a word which shouts 'the author is trying to overawe you with absurd jargon', I move on. About the only time I'd find that word on a page and fail to be put off would be if the character using it was clearly meant to be a pompous ass. In that case, yes, that would be an excellent word to put in their mouth to show how they earned that reputation.

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