13 thoughts on “That’s an avocado you’ll never own”

  1. I’m not sure I’d buy butt butter.

    And I apologize for the alliteration.

  2. If you take the pit of a rich people avocado and set it in a small dish of water it will turn into a diamond overnight. So I’ve heard.

  3. I’m curious what the rich people avocados are. The trader joes here (in SF) have pretty much the same avocados that safeway has, only they are cheaper than safeway most of the time. But then california is like #1 at growing avocados or something, so I don’t know. I never really ate avocados much before living here, so I guess I don’t really have a perspective on rich vs. poor people avocados.

  4. In my part of Mass, Trader Joe’s is the rich people’s store…

  5. Is that – a Coasters lyrical allusion? Well, probably not. But I’m gonna listen to the song right now.

  6. The size makes me think that’s a Florida avocado. The Florida avocado, apart from dwarfing the Hass avocado, is a brighter green, a smoother skin. But ye need not aspire to it. Here in Florida, it is the poor people’s avocado, eaten because one’s neighbor has a tree or the grocery store sells pairs for $1.59. They’re kind of watery, as if they were low-fat.

  7. Florida avocados! It sure sounds like them. I’ll redirect my envy to rich people cheeses.

    Our local Trader Joe markets have better prices on milk and eggs than the Safeways. And stopping by the free sample hut once after arriving and once before checking out is a free tiny meal.

    Adam, there is no situation to which “Shoppin’ for Clothes” cannot be applied.

  8. I have an avocado tree (of course, I live in Florida). I caught a mother and her 7 year old son one day stealing the avocados (I say that loosely because I don’t care if they take them or not.) The scary part was that the mom had the boy shimmy up the tree to and then toss down the fruit. The tree is like 25 feet high! Watching him do it gave me vertigo.

  9. That sounds like a slogan for an extremely niche t-shirt. But I’d buy it!

  10. When you move from an avocado-producing state (California) to a non-avocado-producing state (Oregon), all avocados seem like rich people avocados.

  11. Well I come from a non-avocado-producing state (Minnesota), and I guess I just always eat the foods that are cheapest as I’d never really had avocados until I lived where they’re cheap and plentiful.

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