And apparently, this thread is quite similar to one from 2003 about Saddam equipping terrorists with nukes in the then-immediate future. Sure, Discourse. Sure. Might be time to figure out what your preferred smoke is laced with? It’s things like this that convince me that AI is just a pipe dream.
Yeah, in all seriousness this was my first question as well. The article notes that the industry has something like 300K people, from growers to end-chain sellers. That number seems high to me, but what do I know? Regardless, the entire process comes to a screeching halt because of something that happens to one single person? Something doesn’t add up.
Hey, I’m far from being a millennial–in fact, I gave birth to millennials–and I’ve been eating avocado toast since before those young whippersnappers ever stumbled on it. Take that as a confession, I guess. I love avocados, and they love me, judging by the avocado plant that is somehow flourishing in the cloudy, wet climate of western Washington.
The US imports 2.5 billion pounds of avocados from Mexico every year. It’s not just millennials who’re going to be bummed.
Despite being a Millennial myself (although only barely… I missed the cut-off from being GenX by about 6 months and I hate it yadda yadda yadda complaincomplaincomplain), I don’t eat many avocados. I like them quite a bit but it seems like whenever I buy them they aren’t quite ripe enough and then, suddenly, they are far too soft. So I quit trying. Trader Joe’s has some good guac but it’s too far for me to drive so, at this point, I just sorta do without.
No kidding. Wife and I are 50+; we eat avocado toast twice a week, and full-plate salads with avocado 3X a week. We’ve been burning through 130 avocados a year since the pandemic started, so we’re gonna be a little irritable until this gets sorted out.
The only acceptable action is to cease all imports from Mexico until the person who phoned in the threat, AND EVERY PERSON UP THE CARTEL CHAIN OF COMMAND WHO AUTHORISED THE THREAT have their heads delivered to the nearest US embassy, with proof that they were the people involved.
And I loathe avocado toast and avocados on salads.
I just bought some California grown avocados at the farmers market last weekend, so I am good for now.
I was born right smack in the middle of that gray area between Gen X and Millennial, so I could probably claim either generation, but I tend to think of myself as an Elder Millennial. That said, I have never actually had avocado toast. However, I do find smashed avocado is a nice addition to many sandwiches, especially BLTs (which would make it a BLTA) and club sandwiches.
This is very good news. Avocados appear on every damn thing and I get tired of asking people to leave out that slimy green nastiness. A few sweet weeks without them making an appearance will comfort my troubled soul.
The drug cartels have been getting into the avocado business. Why, I dunno - profitable legit business? They like avocado toast, too? Regardless, the cartels are taking over the business.
Of course, being law-breaking thugs they’ve been pretty brutal in doing so.
I wonder if it’s a lower-level cartel member getting stupid/too big for his britches or if it came from higher up. The guys in charge of business - and both the legit and shady aspects of what they do are, at a certain level, business and intended to be profitable - should know better than to piss off their biggest customer, and should know that threatening health inspectors would do that.
Of course, this may be a tip-of-the-iceberg/straw-that-breaks-the-camel’s-back thing - there could be more than just one threat going on here.
I’m thinking its a way to smuggle their other goods into the country, maybe? Hence telling a random inspector who takes his job a little too serious to Back The Fuck Off or wind up un-living.