I saw a headline that the Mexican import suspension has been lifted.
Yep.
The Yuccies are saved!
Avocados are not big cartel business. The cartels extort the growers and packers. They aren’t the growers and packers.
Like how 70% of European olive oil is fake but it’s not a big business for the mafia because they don’t own the olive trees?
Protection rackets were never big money makers because the criminals didn’t own the businesses.
Prostitutes are never big business because the pimps don’t have pussies?
Can’t help but think that taking over the avocado business, or at least distribution, could be a way to launder money
Anyhow, read on CNN today that the ban is off and the avocados will flow again.
Avacados seemed everywhere in the grocery store today. Maybe they got some catch up shipments. Weren’t on sale though. The larger ones were 1.99 a piece.
Never Mind.
Yep. Avocados looking a bit too ripe at Trader Joe’s yesterday. Avocado toast today.
I still would be willing to forgo it if cartels threaten our inspectors about it again.
My mom grew up in Ohio, but moved to California during WWII. She had heard of avocados and decided to try them once she moved here. She went to the market and picked them ased on what she’d been told to do when buying fruit – she picked the firmest.
Not surprisingly, she hated it!
In fourth grade (1972) my class went on to a field trip to a Dept. of Agriculture research farm where we were turned loose on an avocado orchard and told we could take home whatever we found on the ground. Our parents acted like we had returned with the riches of El Dorado.
I just ate a delicious avocado sprinkled with coarse salt, smoked paprika, and medium red pepper.
ETA: No toast; I’m doing keto.
This is all starting to look like a brilliant, New Coke-esque gambit by the cartel. Avocado prices stagnating? Let’s see what people are willing to pay after a few days staring into the grim prospect of a future without them! They probably don’t even need to sell us meth anymore!