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America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by yetanother1980 »

rexpop wrote: post #24
simonsarris wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a strange way to be mean to your wife? I don't get it. EDIT: sorry! Somehow missed the "forget" part of the sentence. I don't eat fruit, I don't like the taste. When I see dried mangoes, I buy them for my girlfriend because she loves them.

This person habitually attempts to deceive their wife, and from their own account describes her feeling antagonized. I don't think they are "forgetting avocados" so much as they are bullying their partner with plausibly deniable emotional abuse.

His wife forces him to be silent - which is actual abusive behaviour.

Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by ben174 »

Not sure how this contributes to this thread, but I’m nearly 40 years old and have never once tasted an avocado. I was born and raised in California but for some reason I’ve always been repulsed by their appearance.

I’ll realize this is ridiculous and will probably get over this at some point.

Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by lostlogin »

toomanybeersies wrote: post #50
neosavvy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah at least it's not the great lime shortage of 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/upshot/why-everyones-talk...

If you think those prices are bad, don't go to New Zealand. I have no idea why, but limes are extortionately expensive in New Zealand, even for imported goods. They're currently NZ$35 per kg (over US$10 per lb). It's standard to get a slice of lemon in your Corona (which are also extortionately expensive in NZ)

Or grow them. They fruit twice a year as far as I can tell and they keep for ages. I planted a hedge of them and give away supermarket bags full regularly. Most things taste better with some lime juice. They require zero care and at the current 35+ degrees Celsius, are borderline a requirement for living.

Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by conanbatt »

ben174 wrote: post #62

Not sure how this contributes to this thread, but I’m nearly 40 years old and have never once tasted an avocado. I was born and raised in California but for some reason I’ve always been repulsed by their appearance. I’ll realize this is ridiculous and will probably get over this at some point.

You live in california and never ate guacamole? I don't think that's even possible.

Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by divanvisagie »

mc32 wrote: post #48
beilabs wrote: post #33

Afraid you have nothing on Australians affair with Avocado. https://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/10/17/i-stopped-e... It's a staple of the Australian diet, fairly certain it's one of the 5 fruits a day over there adorned on the walls of schools across the country. Seriously though, I've seen Avocado go for $6 a piece.....those were hard times.

And at least the affair is with the avocado itself and not the color as it had been in the UK[1]... Of course now, an avocado bathroom will cost you 5-8000 pounds in resale value, so better spruce up the 70s chic before listing[2]. On the other hand, it apparently is making a retro comeback. [1 http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/interiors/bathroom/avocado [2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4282662/Avocado-bath.…

Straddling the line of off topic

Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by ben174 »

conanbatt wrote: post #65
ben174 wrote: post #62

Not sure how this contributes to this thread, but I’m nearly 40 years old and have never once tasted an avocado. I was born and raised in California but for some reason I’ve always been repulsed by their appearance. I’ll realize this is ridiculous and will probably get over this at some point.

You live in california and never ate guacamole? I don't think that's even possible.

Hah yes trust me it’s hard to convince people it’s true.

Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by rosser »

yetanother1980 wrote: post #61
rexpop wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This person habitually attempts to deceive their wife, and from their own account describes her feeling antagonized. I don't think they are "forgetting avocados" so much as they are bullying their partner with plausibly deniable emotional abuse.

His wife forces him to be silent - which is actual abusive behaviour.

"stops speaking to me for a whole five minutes" != "forces him to be silent"

There is no abuse in this anecdote, either way. There's some passive-aggressiveness, and some dismissal, but neither quite rises to the level of abuse.

Re: America's Love Affair with Avocado

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Post by thisisit »

pmorici wrote: post #2

I don't understand how high avocado prices could cause Chipotle to loose money. Guacamole is an optional add on why wouldn't they just raise the price of the guacamole to reflect the market price of avocado or use avocado futures to hedge their price risk.

I did a casual search and there is no avocado futures. Yet. :)

Chipotle has been recovering from a food safety scandal [1]. So they have to tread very carefully. While raising prices might be trivial they can generate a lot of negative publicity.

[1]: https://qz.com/968286/chipotle-mexican-grill-cmg-burrito-cha...

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