READY- TO- EAT AVOCADOS

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Ever been to the shop and the purchase of avocado pears is on the shopping list? If you’re like me preferring to purchase ready-to-eat avocados, have you also come unstuck and left the fruit and vegetable aisle avocadoless?

Yesterday was yet another one of those ‘leaving the shop minus advocado days’ – hence the blog inspiration.

Why can’t the fruit and vegetable store stock read-to-eat-avocados? I’m far too impatient to wait for the next 3 – 5 days until they can be eaten. I’ve often passed the crates of hardened avocados wondering why they are not flying off the shelf. On another shopping trip they are overripe – and still not flying off the shelf. Makes we wonder what’s the profit/loss margin on avocados?

What puzzles me though is that :

- Individual (loose) avocados have no ‘sell by or best by date’
- No home ripening instructions are provided
- The only instructions that I’ve come across are : ‘Do not squeeze
avocados’. If avocados cannot be squeezed, the assumption is that shoppers
have trained eyes and by merely looking at an avocado, we would know
whether they are ripe or not

Newsflash: I’m born and bred in the city and know nothing about farming and fruit ripening techniques.

A few questions:
- Must the avocados be wrapped in brown paper?
- Is newspaper better than brown paper?
- Must it be stored in a dry, cool place?
- Can’t avocados be left in a bowl on the kitchen table and left to ripen by
themselves?
- Another thing: which is best – a glass or wooden bowl?

I guess with advocados it a case of the unspoken word, “If you want me, buy me, take me home, nuture me with tender loving care until I’m ready to be served in a gourmet dish!”

Leaving the shopper with little option …. Take it or leave it! My family loves them – so Mom has no option but to purchase and contribute towards the agricultural ripening process.

A last thought : just wondering, as default farmer - why don't I get a discount?