September 21, 2007

Avocado! Not until 1871...was the avocado definitely established [in California], through the introduction of three trees by Judge R. B. Ord of Santa Barbara. Two of these three trees bore fruit for many years in Santa Barbara, and served to create interest in further plantings. Avocado! In one year, a single California avocado tree can absorb as much carbon as is produced by a car driven 26,000 miles. Avocado! The avocado probably originated in southern Mexico but was cultivated from the Rio Grande to central Peru before the arrival of Europeans.

(I had a burrito for lunch. With avocado. Creamy, delicious avocado.)

posted by HawthorneWingo 17 years ago
  • We live in California when I was a kid and had an avocado tree in the backyard. The year we left it finally flowered, producing bushels of avocados for the people who bought the house, to the extent that they offered to ship a crate east for us. Black bread, ripe avocado, swiss cheese, smoked ham, tomato, and lettuce is probably my favorite sandwich.
  • *keyboard awash with drool
  • Avocado is poisonous to parrots. Fun fact.
  • I had four little avocado plants from last summer, about six inches high, on the windowsill this spring. They were beautiful--glossy leaves, sturdy stems. Then I went to New Mexico, and Mr. BlueHorse forgot to water them. Needless to say, he will not be out of the doghouse until I have new avocado seedlings.
  • sorry to hear about yr baby trees bluehorse :( sfred: for me, swap out the ham with turkey and add a generous helping of good dijon mustard: PERFECT SAMMICH!! /hungry now
  • Tell Mr.Horse I hate him... avocado-killer. *feels snuggly happy, knowing a fresh avocado, tomato & green pepper salad is waiting in my fridge at home*
  • A misspelling, a split infinitive, and I forgot to mention the dijon mustard (absolutely essential). I really do need to start previewing my posts.
  • Avocado is poisonous to parrots. Fun fact. Polar bear liver is toxic to humans. (Too much of the wrong kind of Vitamin A) Also, much love for fruits named for testicles. It's just, bravo. Well done.
  • And without the humble avocado, what color would the girls turn when Pablo Picasso drove by?
  • Oh, my. As I scan this, I can't help but begin to consider avocado as the Werzog of fruit. I say we enter an avocado in the U.S. presidential campaign. "A candidate you can trust. Who's also creamy and delicious."
  • I hate Avocado. Vile, useless things. It's like eating paste.
  • Hank, you must be eating the Fuerte variety, which are watery and disgusting. Hass are dynamite. Creamy and nutty, and full of B vitamins. Toasted middle European wheat bread I bought from a Serbian restaurant, ripe avocados from a tree in the back yard (instead of butter,) and a pot of good tea! Best breakfasts I've ever had.
  • MMmmmm avocado. Fabulous food! avocado
  • I have an avocado pit turning into a tree in my dining room even as we speak!
  • But, if you want to to produce fruit, you'll need to plant it outside in a salubrious climate and have it grafted with the opposite sex's presence. Your local nursery can tell you whether you have a male or female tree. On the other hand, a non-producing tree can be really pretty.
  • HUSH, path!! Do NOT enlighten Hank as to the creamy deliciousness that is avocado. MORE FOR MEEEEE!!!
  • And Hank, I've been told that if you're looking for a very cannabis-friendly gustatory delight, not much can match a ripe Haas avocado. Plus they go really well with cheese! I feel like a shill for the avocado industry, but the quality of avocados here is actually, truly one of the reasons I moved to California 15 years ago.
  • I work a community plot abutting an avocado orchard on Hollywood Blvd, which doesn't necessarily mean I get full-grown fruit. I do get avocados that fall from the trees (there, and on sidestreets). Is there any more perfect piece of food? I skin mine, put them in a bowl, douse them with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper, and add some mustard, and swirl the whole thing around before devouring it. What I don't know is the right wine to accompany this.
  • You can't go wrong with Fat Bastard.
  • Vile, useless things. It's like eating paste. Heresy! Get thee to California.
  • Ohgod couscous with chunks of avocado and feta cheese just mmmmmmmm.
  • a salubrious climate . . . go on . . What, it sounds, y'know sexy.
  • The evening party under the Spanish moss-draped oaks was going well. The belles found the climate salubrious: pleasantly warm, with just enough humidity to bring out a glow to their faces and shoulders (maidens don't "sweat", you know) without deflating their elaborate coifs or staining the underarms of their ball gowns. The beaux were also in fine fettle, even under the weight of their formal attire (the joys of seersucker suits had not yet been discovered.) Mary Miranda was standing at the edge of the crowd, entranced by the glow of the first fireflies to bring fairy lights to the copse, when a voice from behind her brought her back to the restivities. "My dear," he whispered, "would you care to dance?" "Sir," she said, "I don't think we've been properly introduced." "My name is Brett Ruttler, and I'm sticken with admiration for your beauty." How could she resist?..
  • Damn. "festivities."
  • Ooh this is good. I bet there's a sandwich scene coming up
  • as he smeared the overripe avocado meat across her own creamy, overripe flesh, she felt the last shred of resistance flee and gave herself over to his sweet green caresses...
  • "Oh, Kermit!", she cried.
  • They danced to the waltz played by the slave band led by Uncle Remus till Mary Miranda began to feel faint. "Brett," she said, fanning herself feverishly, "I must sit down! Your broad, masculine chest has caused me to glow in places I've never glown before. I fear I will swoon." "My dear," Brett intoned, "Even though your scalp seems to be, um, glowing, it's led to wonderful tendrils of blond locks framing your face! I find you irrestible! But let me introduce you to my stalwart companion, Robert E. Falworth. He and I can calm you with a sandwich, the likes of which you've never experienced!' (Ok,sorry, wrong sandwich. Restart.) "My dear," Brett intoned, "you need sustinence. The buffet being set out my the darkies under your care has many delicasies. I know we'll find viands which will suit your delicate constitution. I recommend the pastrami, especially since the flies do not seem to have a liking for it."
  • "glown" I love it.
  • Food & sex... the only missing things is goats.
  • I eat avocado as a sweet dessert. Blended with sweetened condensed milk (Dutch Lady if you can get it) and a few teaspoons of Milo powder (Australian made if you can get it). About half a cup of ice. It's amazingly delicious.
  • I never say no to a Dutch lady if I can get it. Sorry, where were we?
  • *sound of rapidly approaching footsteps* *DOINK* (that would be Abiezer's head making contact with a 100 TON HAMMER™) *sound of rapidly retreating footsteps*
  • I make avocado smoothies twice or three times a week: blend with banana and milk; one medium avocado to two medium bananas; a pinch of nutmeg is optional. Soy milk with water can replace cow juice if desired. Great way to start the day.
  • I had avocado, mozzarella and green apple salad for lunch. And there was in fact a Dutch lady sitting at the table next to me, so, you know. All good.
  • The smoothie comment reminded me of an episode of "Good Eats," wherein Alton Brown did an entire episode on avocado, which included this recipe for Avocado Ice Cream. Makes me wish I had an ice cream maker. I'd love to whip up a batch of the green stuff.
  • It was taught to me early on by my mother's mattenklopper never to say no to a Dutch lady.
  • I have a major crush on Alton Brown.
  • Monkeyfilter: it was taught to me early on by my mother's mattenklopper
  • Mitchell's Ice Cream in San Francisco makes a tasty avocado ice cream. They also do amazing tropical and seasonal flavors; my faves are buko (baby coconut) and cantaloupe (YUM). And I'm within walking distance, which kicks all kinds of ass.
  • Ralph, that Miss Piggy reference just about had me spitting coffee.
  • HWingo, that was my old hood too. I loved me some buko (they have another coconut flavor that's not as good), and also some pumpkin ice cream! Would always buy a pint. Worth the wait for them to hand-pack it.
  • Yay! We haven't seen that hammer in a while.
  • *dances for joy on Abiezer's prone carcass Yay! Bring down the Hammer! That sounds delish, my girl. I don't have an ice cream maker, so making 'cado 'scream is out, but I could make your Little Dutch Girl treat. Only it would be with Pet Milk. Plus, I think I'd have to sub with Nesquik*, the powdered milk drink formerly known as Nestles Quick, maybe? *If they're going to call it something as stupid as Ne Squik now, maybe I'll use Ovaltine instead. *begins chanting 'Nedra 'Nedra 'Nedra 'Nedra 'Nedra
  • Dance all you like. Just don't store my corpse (or whatever jam-like bits you can scrape off the hammer) next to quid's. I hear strange things go on around there.
  • Oh, my, Hawthorne and Koko. My parents dated at Mitchell's Ice Cream in the early '60s.
  • Wow, that's awesome. It still feels like the early 1960s in that place, somehow. Except for the kids behind the counter wearing their baseball caps at an angle. Damn punks. And Koko, didja live in the Mission, Bernal, Noe? (Me, Noe. BORING. Great place to start a family, though, if you can afford a $2 million house.) p.s. Looking forward to trying the pumpkin!
  • Noe (30th and Sanchez), then Glen Park (Chenery); quite a hike from Glen Park, but all that walking is a good excuse to eat ice cream! IIRC, they have a pretty good Egg Nog flavor 'round Christmastime, if you're into that sort of thing
  • Just for the record, I am now eating couscous with Parmesan and chunks of roasted aubergine. I wish I had an avocado to chop up and put in here. It would be perfect with avocado.
  • Eggamanog ice cream is teh mmm.
  • Damn you TUM!! *drooooooools
  • Oh what the heck, I'll have one. *grips spoon impatiently*
  • Koko, you was my neighbor! Me and my old lady (she loves when I call her that) are just up the street from Eric's Chinese restaurant. Actually, maybe not. Only been here a bit over 3 years. Coupla years in the Mission and 8 years in Cole Valley previously. When were you here?
  • '94 to '00. I think Eric's is owned by the same people as Alice's, which was my fave. Yummy onion cakes.
  • Back when I hung out in bars, I loved going to the Rat & Raven on 24th Street. No longer exists. Ever go to their Sunday nite Simpsons viewings? And I'm with you on the onion cakes -- very addicting use of grease. Small world in any case!
  • Went to the R&R a few times (most Simpsons viewing was done in my home accompanied by bong hits), but my preferred haunt was the El Rio on Mission. Nice shady back patio, and back then it wasn't so crowded you couldn't play pool. Is Mikey Tom Market still on Church, or did it close after Mikey died?
  • Mikey Tom closed a few years ago. Rumors of a fancy pants restaurant going in there have abounded for most of the time since, but nothing yet. Also, the Real Foods on 24th Street has been closed for almost 4 years, and there are rumors that Whole Foods is going in where the Cala is currently. And El Rio is one of my favorite places nearby. I categorically will not drink Pabst, though.
  • MikeyTom update: Just walked down Church St., and the location has a fresh coat of paint and a brand spankin' new sign. It's gonna be a high end furniture store. You'd be pretty amazed at the changes on the "Church Street corridor" since you left town.
  • Oh my, Koko. El Rio! I spent Friday nights there for years, getting hugely drunk, dancing with my colleagues (that place was THE hang-out for certain public health workers, especially after a week of giving HIV results) and eating the free oysters.
  • Awww...GramMa, you're making me blush!
  • Thanks HW and goofyfoot for the little stroll down memory lane. I feel the City by the Bay calling me as we speak .... or maybe that's just Journey playing on a coworker's radio.
  • Don't worry, koko. I'm sure Winnipeg can offer just as much culture and entertainBWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Sorry.
  • Hey, man, Heart is playing at the MTS Centre next month. HEART!!! Shut up.
  • Barracuda!
  • OH NOES!!!!! Damn you wildfires!