Love Avocados? Well, They're Running Out

NBC San Diego ^ | Oct 22, 2016 | Candice Nguyen and Jaspreet Kaur

[Texas Fossil]

There are other places in Central America that produce Avacados. We learned to like Avacados from good friend of my wife who was born in Costa Rica.

Some stupid MX worker strike is not the end of the world.

I have lots of dip recipes that don’t require them. (I do like avacados)

[Texas Fossil]

I bought small avacados last week 4 for $1.00.

The price has been up and down lately, but because MX has a farm worker strike will not destroy the US economy.

It is an inconvenience for restaurants, I admit.

[miss marmelstein]

Most overrated food item in history. Bland and greasy. If only this brings an end to the Mexican food craze and restores sanity to the nation, it will be a good thing as Martha says. Might end the career of Aron Sanchez too, which is another good thing.

[texas booster]

So for medium avocados, these restaurants are paying $2 each in a large box? Ouch.

Agriculture has some strange ways of paying for labor. Some is completely market oriented, some is very centralized.

[fivecatsandadog]

Avocados are a weekly grocery item in my house. Since the peels and pits get tossed into the compost bin, its not unusual to find a few of the pits with sprouts. Unfortunately the Michigan winters aren’t avocado-friendly.

[NautiNurse]

We have four avocado trees in our back yard.

We too. Except one tree is in the front yard. Three in the back yard.

[Fzob]

Not clear to me why anyone eats avocados. If they disappeared I would not even notice.

[ilovesarah2012]

The very least of my worries.

[real saxophonist]

Just as an experiment, I took a Home Depot bucket I found in the dumpster, rinsed it out, filled it with potting soil, and planted a couple of pits from avocados I got at the grocery store.

Nothing happened for about a month, then they sprouted. Got about three feet high, with leaves as big as my hands, then they suddenly died. Don't know why.

I have a Ghost Pepper plant growing in that bucket now.

[Right Wing Assault]

One of the early youtube pepper tasters from 2008. I like this guy.

Bhut Jolokia

[trebb]

Avocados are only good for a good tangy guacamole dip - otherwise, they’re “the pits”...

[PJ-Comix]

After Hurricane Katrina came thru South Florida in ‘05, there were so many avocados knocked off the trees that they were selling them for 4 for $1. I bought a bunch of course. BTW, there are the LARGE avocados, not the puny California Haas avocados.

[Bernard]

Sounds like there is no way to automate the picking of avacodos. Too bad Sheldon Cooper's cross-breeding of Octopus and Dog has not worked yet.

Does the avocado business in mexico really rely on Mexicans picking them? Maybe they should advertise and get some of their deserters back from the US to increase the labor pool and do the jobs Mexicans won't do...

[JoeProBono]

[stars & stripes forever]

GROWING AVOCADOS INDOORS IN HARSH CLIMATES

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Gardening/2009/0218/harvest-avocados-indoors

[BobL]

“Haven’t avacadoes been grown in California and other states, since at least the 1930s...”

Unfortunately the trees require WATER - the same water now dedicated to some bait-fish in Northern California.

[JoeProBono]

[bgill]

I hardly ever buy them because they’re never less than $1.50 at my store.

[stocksthatgoup]

Growers and pickers in Mexico

[luvbach1]

Avocados have been popular in Southern CA for as long as I can remember. I moved to San Diego in 1952.