Closing the southern border, we’re told, will result in an avocado shortage within three weeks.
It’s unfortunate that it has come to this, the only way to ensure our supply of the essential guacamole.
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I started a guacamole plant just like that years ago! What fun to watch it grow. I planted it outside after it started growing. Had to leave it behind when we moved. (:
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Too cold to plant it outside here. That would be nice. I remember that my aunt had an big avocado tree when she lived in Burbank, CA, back in the 1960’s.
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Hm. We can’t close the border because we would run out of guacamole? That is pretty much what I heard on the MSM. 🙄
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Yeah, that’s right. All bars which serve dip, and all Mexican restaurants, will have to close down. Oh, the humanity! Can’t count on Florida avacados since they don’t come ripe till August and September.
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I was going to make guacamole the other night. Went to three different stores and couldn’t find any avocados that weren’t so overripe they were bordering on rotten. Ended up for the first time ever buying packaged guacamole. I was actually surprised that it was pretty good, I think it was wholly guacamole.
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Some of it is pretty good.
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It’s getting really hard around here to find good avocados, usually I just decide to make something else. So it was nice to find out the next time I want guacamole and can’t find avocados, there is something that is fairly decent.
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The only way to get decent avocados, sometimes, is to buy them when they are hard and let them ripen at home.
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The problem I always run into is they are usually overripe.
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That is what I do.
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I can see mules dragging huge backpacks of avocados across the border instead of drugs as Mexican restaurants and affected TV celeb chefs go into full meltdown.
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That Wholly Guacamole hot is awesome! Yes, 90% of IMPORTED avocados come from Mehico but they only account for 10% of avocado sales – I ain’t worried. And can do without if it comes down toit.
Anyone else have to sign back in for every comment? I even have to do it next door.
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That does periodically happen to me too Wee, but right now the WordPress gods are favoring me.
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My latest problem with wordpress is I am signed in and have refreshed the page and still can’t comment. Happens off and on.
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It wasn’t as good as mine, but it surprised me.
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IKR???? 😀
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I’m not having to. Word Press is probably being nice to me since they kept me from logging in forever.
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WoW! Gotta run to Walmart and buy a bushel – in three of four weeks as supplies dip I can make a killing! (‘supplies dip’ unintentional…really).
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What brand? 😀
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I’m pretty sure it’s Wholly Guacamole.
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Thanks. I’ll give it a try. 🙂
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It’s better than some I’ve had at Mexican restaurants.
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Once again the party pooper. Never cared for guacamole, nor avocados, nor Mexican food for that matter, so could not care less. You all may have my share of avocados.
But will grow them, for sure. D’ya think there will be a profitable black market for avocados?
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Same with me. I said below that I will stop eating them. On another site, where people know me, a couple people did get a smile out of that one.
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So closing the border Hass some drawbacks, that’s the pits. What’rec we going to do when avocado supplies hit guac bottom?
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How many avocados do illegals eat? Closing the border might actually protect our avocado supply.
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Of course there’s the unanswered question of how much of an interest the cartels have in the avocado trade. Remember back to the Mexican ‘lime’ shortage and margarita drinkers were wailing and rending clothes? About as soon as the limes hit ~60 cents each retail the drought ended and the national news broached the subject of how the cartels had branched out into the lime industry some years back and the shortage was looking to be manufactured.
I was at Walmart today and the produce section, in rural Mississippi, was awash with avocados, cases and cases of them flooding the shelves. I’m wondering if the Mex growers have a flood of avocados, having over planted in anticipation of a booming market, and this is a manufactured scare designed to move more avocados here to move the glut there?
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Triple header!
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Didn’t want to risk a dip in expectations.
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I will do my part and stop eating avocados or their derivatives.
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Just buy avocados that were raised in California or Florida (if you can find them.)
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