Re: advocado = enviromental disaster
Originally Posted by
mariana
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i get mine in Sainsburys---ripe and ready-or they are like bullets--not good.
A grocery store I frequent had a really bad stretch of getting bummer 'cados. Don't know what was going on, but they would never ripen. Unless I need a super ripe one to use that night for guacamole (otherwise I like my avocado slightly soft but still sliceable) I normally buy them when they're still very firm to the touch. Well for some reason these ones wouldn't ripen and get soft no matter how long they sat. It was strange.
Originally Posted by
APRICOT
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Well they are not .
Well, most likely something to do with the original article Muddy posted. I found something similar...
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9176b...-deforestation
So it's no wonder they're so expensive.
They're pretty abundant here, but I haven't noticed an increase in cost. It's pretty typical to pay a dollar (£0.77) for an avocado here, sometimes even more. People still buy them up, though, the cost doesn't seem to bother anyone.