/ck/ - Food & Cooking

t. american

>>18645692
Higher Mexican-American populations, especially in the Southwest, led to the spread of foods that were popular in Mexico.

>>18645703
Is the American in the room with us right now?

>>18645703
I know you are but what am I?
It's in Europe too now. Like a plague.

>>18645692
>you have never had guacamole

You are missing out really bad.

Mix tomatoes, onions, lime juice, some salt and mashed avocados in a bowl. Eat it with corn chips. It is fucking delicious.

>>18645782
But what am I eating it with?
>corn chips
Oh. Empty carbs.
Pass.

>>18645692
>I've never seen anyone pick one up off the shelf.
liar

>No one ate it 2 decades ago
Avocado on toast was my favourite snack as a kid. I'm 33 years old bitch.

>>18645692
been eating them for more than 40 years bitch. I see people buy them all the time. fry's doesn't stock shit people don't buy.

>>18645692
they grow in mexico, and mexicans love them. now the country is 25% mexican so eat your fruitslop.

>>18645792
You can eat it with carrot chips or a spoon if you want, but it's better with chips.

>>18645703
yea and PROUD of it

>>18645692
California, its a huge part of their agricultural sector. Boycotting avocados is basically boycotting California and mexico

>>18645692
I've been eating them since I was a kid and I live in Northern Europe so as far away from where they are common.

>>18645692
Protip: plain avocado does not work on Ethiopian injera bread. I thought I could do something with the sourness, or maybe sweet-and-sour, or tried a few other basic spice/flavor additions to try to make it work, but it was just all wrong.

I love avocado otherwise. It's not that versatile in general however, compared to some other fruits, I'd say. Bananas and plantains, tomatoes, apples, and any citrus are probably the kings of the fruits.

my ex girlfriend told me that avocado tastes like clean dick

ruined it for me

>>18645692
>no-one ate it two decades ago
This is just blatantly false, and delusional, and incorrect, and kind of just stupid. That's like saying that nobody ate bacon before Epic Meal Time.
>>18645703
Avocados have been ubiquitous in America at least since the 80's. OP is probably from Finland or something.
>>18645944
>boycotting avocados is basically boycotting California and mexico
Lol. You'd have to boycott 90% of all your fresh produce if you wanted to boycott California and Mexico. California produces more of the country's food by a huge margin.

>>18646084
What fruit does dirty dick taste like? Asking for a friend

>>18645692
Mexican cartels trying to go legit because of cia and fbi

>>18645692
>No-one ate it two decades ago
Zoomers love assuming the most retarded and blatantly false things they can think of are just reality now

>>18645809
2009 was 33 years ago
Holy shit i feel old bros

>>18645809
i'm also 33. do you have your life figured out? i'm a 400+lb neet with no friends, skills or anything to show for my 33 years of existence and i'm about ready to fucking end it

>>18646238
Gross

>>18645692
>Though I'm still not sure if anyone eats them.
you've never had guacamole?
>>18645703
you've clearly never been to california

>>18645782
>tomatoes in avocado

>>18645692
People have used avocado in salads regularly since the 1950s, according to a search that took less time than typing this.

You didn't notice, because they're not packaged with Asian text

it's one of the healthiest sources of dietary saturated fat there is--a lot of folks get too much in their diet from refined high-lipid cooking oils but it really does go a long way in the context of a balanced diet. nutritionally well-rounded & promotes LDL uptake, which plays a critical role re. one's cardiovascular health. its also vitamin & mineral-rich to boot.

if you can't buy them fresh then its probably a better idea to buy frozen tho, and ofc going overboard with dietary-saturated fat has health risks

>>18646458
>words words words
People eat avocados because they're delicious. Simple as.

>>18646458
HDL* my bad, im a fucking idiot

>>18646458
What the fuck? Where can you find frozen avocados? And what kind of idiot would buy those? The texture would be horrible.

>>18646481
many major grocers stock them cubed in the frozen-fruit section of the freezer-aisles

they generally aren't browned much, unless they were left out to thaw & then refrozen, and still have a fair bit of firmness to them

>>18646481
I've been to high end grocery stores, low end grocery stores, Mexican grocery stores, health food stores, Asian grocery stores, and kind of just generally spend a lot of time on the internet looking at food, and have Never in my life seen frozen avocados. I feel like I've seen them mentioned once or twice on /ck/ over the past decade, but it was probably that same guy.

>>18646509
not my problem

>>18646512
>avocadoes don't grow in canada
Wow. Truly mind blowing.

>>18646525
??????

they don't grow in most parts of the USA either, yet you can buy them either reasonably fresh or frozen just about anywhere, not sure what point you're trying to make

>>18645692
>No-one ate it two decades ago
yes we did, it's just that you were merely a frisky feeling in your dad's balls at that time. i can remember avocados being everywhere back in the 70's.

>>18646533
>not sure what point you're trying to make
That frozen avocados aren't a thing in the US.

>>18645692
Yes, normies love avocadoes, but that doesn't mean they aren't great. They taste good and are very healthy. I probably eat one per day on average. One of the easiest way for me to eat more greens and get healthy fats. What's not to like?

>>18646536
And that Canadians are weird and nobody has ever paid any attention to what they do or copied anything food or cooking related that comes from Canada.

>>18646536
uhhh sure OK, im sure this anecdotal evidence from a retarded flyover mutt is 100% correct (check the frozen fruit section at trader joe's or something tho)

>>18646238
Yikes sweaty. Still have time to turn things around. Lose some weight, get a job, meet some new friends, get a gf (will be a lot easier once you aren't an obese NEET). But you're probably not even gonna try. Pathetic.

>>18646546
it's too late for me

>>18646512
Frozen avocadoes taste like shit. I couldn't get them fresh when I was living in asia for a while.

>>18646543
>mutt
Cool, so you're not even American but looked something up online just to shitpost? I haven't been to a TJ's in a few years, but I definitely don't remember ever seeing frozen avocadoes there, and I used to look through all their shit (because going to TJ's with a woman means spending an hour in a store that should take 20 minutes to walk down every aisle and read the label of every product).

>>18646548
No it's not. Stop worrying about what could have been and make the best of your situation. I know a former NEET around your age who got a 2 year coding diploma and now has a solid job and friends. You could also learn a trade, become an electrician or something like that. It's pretty interesting and not that hard to get into. Work (usually) isn't as fun as playing vidya or eating pizza, but it gives you a sense of meaning. Which will make you happier in life.

>>18645692
>No-one ate it two decades ago
in your flyover shithole maybe

>>18645705
This plus NAFTA/USMCA plus California and Florida started growing them.

>>18646224
>american hippie lineages are allowed to use the internet now
Grim.

>>18646525
I can get fresh avocados in damn Finland. I'm sure they should be able to transport fresh avocados to Canada.

>>18645782
>You are missing out really bad.
I HIGHLY doubt I am

we dont let outsiders see us pick up the avocadoes.

>>18646231
What the actual fuck is this image?

I think I'm done with avocados. The last time I was at the grocery store one very small Hass avocado cost $1.25.

>>18647477
Vegans think that eating honey is promoting literal slavery.

>>18645692
Mexican food, guac, the handful of yuppie urbanite millenials all the boomers wrote those "KILLING industries" articles about years ago before the targeted generation decided making bullshit up about zoomers and continuing the trend was a good idea. That's where avoshitos got popular. Meanwhile it looks like fucking puke.

>>18647507
Buy discounted soft avocado packs at a store that sells them. A bit of brown coloration is fine for guac you make for yourself, as long as the texture hasn't gone bad. The off flavor of the brown can be covered up easily with a bit more acid (inc tomato) and roasted chiles, and it has notes that somewhat more closely resemble the avocado varieties normally used for guac anyway.

>>18646141
Not ubiquitous in America. Ubiquitous in southern states only. Now it's ubiquitous in America.

>>18648399
>the south is well-known for their love of avocados
What in the actual fuck are you talking about?

I live in New zealand and w9rk 9n an avo orchard. They were big here a few years back but oversaturation has driven prices down and therefore the perceived fanciness of eating one. For avocado on toast it was like 16 nzd
Here's a big boy I picked this week and plan on putting a poached egg inside then wrapping with bacon and cooking in the oven

>>18648412
What an interesting spin.

>>18648198
No. Fuck the avocado cartel.

>>18648416
Do you have a gun pointed at your head and does it smell of cumin?

>>18646084
Avocados are not the problem with that statement, anon. LMFTFY:
>ruined her for me

>>18646238
Dw, I'm only 220 but everything else is spot on. You're not alone.

>>18648416
>Avocado toast
People were spending like USD12 for something like that, up to $25 or more in some places, but I never saw any recipe for it that was anything particularly fancy. One could cook eggs in a very slow, attentive manner and get excellent results to justify a markup on labor costs, but it's not like the avocados had anything going for them other than being not rotten. The artisanal bread was never made in-house by the shop that sells the toast.

I thought people getting daily Starbucks was pushing it a bit in terms of useless expenses, but hearing real-live people actually talk about buying this shit every day was a little much.

>>18646084
well, the nahuatl translation literally means "testicles"... but they also taste like clean young virginal pussy if you ask me... I have never tasted dick tho

>>18646458
>>18646464
pajeets think they are flavorless... they really hate them... but they have to imitate their white overlords at microsoft or else they will be outcasted and their diwali would go to shit

>>18646084
what a psycho

>>18649842
>pajeets think they are flavorless... they really hate them... but they have to imitate their white overlords at microsoft
I live literally 10 minutes away from an Intel, which means I have a few dozen amazing Indian restaurants and grocery stores nearby, and I've never seen a single avocado at any of those places. I don't really understand how a culture on the opposite side of the planet with a very particular taste for foods grown in their homeland for centuries not liking avocados means anything. Fortunately I can go across the street from the Indian place to the Vietnamese place and get an avocado shake to go with my aloo gobi, palak paneer, baingan bharta, biryani, naan, raita, and chutney. I fucking love being born in America.

>>18645692
>Who was behind the big avocado push?
literally the cartels

>t. gf's dad wanted to get into growing avocados in mexico and learned he'd be killed if he tried in the particular state he was looking at