# Damn you avacodos! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902 "2003-10-11T21:07:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/1 "2003-10-11T21:07:35Z")
That’s right, damn you straight to hell! Both of you, sitting on my counter, mocking me with your deliciously pliable meat, covered in yout thick outer skin. Why have you come from California all the way across country to tease me so? I hate you, hate, hate, hate! There. I dunno how that’ll help, but I’m making Guacamole, and the directions say “Pit Avacodas, then peel them”, so there you have it. Now excuse me, I have to go peel some avacodos. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/2 "2003-10-11T21:08:10Z")
You’re a dork. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/3 "2003-10-11T21:14:16Z")
What the hell are ‘avacodos?’ Are they like ‘avacados?’😃 ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/4 "2003-10-11T21:40:33Z")
Thank-you **Weirddave** 😃 you have made my day all shiny and new again. ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/5 "2003-10-11T21:46:40Z")
Silly funny man. And I want some guacamole. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/6 "2003-10-11T21:47:42Z")
Dave, here’s a tip: cut the avocados in half, cutting around the pits. Pull them apart, then cut a score in the edge of the peel. If the avocados are soft enough, you can then just “unzip” the peel easily. > [@](#): > > What the hell are ‘avacodos?’ Are they like ‘avacados?’ Damn you, Gaudere, with your inescapable laws! ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/7 "2003-10-11T22:02:40Z")
What is the exact phrasing of Gaudere’s Law? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/8 "2003-10-11T22:09:09Z")
Anyone pitting avocados is bound to make a mistake in pitting them. No, really. Okay, not. The rough phrasing of it is something like “Anyone who posts to correct someone else’s spelling is bound to make an error in doing so”, though if it did not originally extent to grammar, punctuation, usage etc. it sure as hell does by now:D ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/9 "2003-10-11T22:10:42Z")
The person who complains about another user’s spelling will have a spelling error in their complaint. Also extensible to the mere act of correcting or making fun of another’s spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/10 "2003-10-11T22:34:33Z")
Ah, yes. “What the hell are avacodos? Are they like **avocados?** ” ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/11 "2003-10-11T22:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Magayuk \* > \*\*Silly funny man. > > And I want some guacamole. \*\* No. Canadians are not allowed to eat Guacamole. I fear I may have to forfeit my Canadian passport after eating it. My God was it good. Mmmmmm ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/12 "2003-10-11T23:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \* > \*\*What the hell are ‘avacodos?’ Are they like ‘avacados?’😃 \*\* No, they’re more like av **o** cados. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/13 "2003-10-11T23:20:35Z")
I’ve heard that a little lime juice in the guacamole helps keep the nice, green color. Of course, the guacamole is never around long enough for me to find out if this is true or not. Mmmmm… guacamole… ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/14 "2003-10-11T23:22:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*No. Canadians are not allowed to eat Guacamole. I fear I may have to forfeit my Canadian passport after eating it. > > My God was it good. Mmmmmm \*\* I’ve never heard that rule, I think you made that up so you wouldn’t have to share. 🙂 And your fiendish plan isn’t working, I just had me a sub from Quizno’s with a great big ol glob of guacamole on it. Mmm…glob. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/15 "2003-10-11T23:50:27Z")
Ogre’s World’s Best Guacamole (if’n I do say so myself) recipe: 3 squishy avocados 1 soft, ripe lime 3 cloves of garlic 1/2 medium onion 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper (adds no heat, just flavor) 3 diced ripe Roma tomatoes lots of cilantro peel and pit the avocados, finely dice the onion and tomato, peel and squish the garlic. Add all other ingredients. I’m very liberal with the cilantro, cause, damn it, it’s good. Salt to taste. I usually use fleur de sel, cause I’m a snob. 🙂 MAsh with a fork until desired consistency is reached. There. Dead easy, and no fuss, and it makes the best goddamn guac on earth. Notice how cumin, paprika, etc. are conspicuously absent. :shudder: I have a friend who once requested I make the above recipe for her birthday dinner. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/16 "2003-10-11T23:51:33Z")
“Amelia Bedelia,” exclaimed Mrs. Rogers, “why are there little pieces of pit in the guacamole? Didn’t you pit the avocados first?” “Of course,” said Amelia Bedelia, “just like the recipe said. . .” ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/17 "2003-10-11T23:52:23Z")
Errr, I should have said to thoroughly squeeze all the lime juice into the guac. Not only does it preserve the color, but it also gives it a fabulous, fresh citrus taste. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/18 "2003-10-12T00:14:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Magayuk \* > **I’ve never heard that rule, I think you made that up so you wouldn’t have to share. 🙂** I WOULD NEVER. > [@](#): > > \*\*And your fiendish plan isn’t working, I just had me a sub from Quizno’s with a great big ol glob of guacamole on it. > > Mmm…glob. \*\* Ain’t no such thing in Canada. Maybe it’s just an Ontario thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/19 "2003-10-12T00:44:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*That’s right, damn you straight to hell! Both of you, sitting on my counter, mocking me with your deliciously pliable meat, covered in yout thick outer skin. Why have you come from California all the way across country to tease me so? I hate you, hate, hate, hate! > There. I dunno how that’ll help, but I’m making Guacamole, and the directions say “Pit Avacodas, then peel them”, so there you have it. Now excuse me, I have to go peel some avacodos. \*\* I’m surprised that nobody has realized that what **Weirddave** has done is perfectly logical. The directions explicitly say to Pit the avocados _first_, then peel them. It is topologically impossible to remove the seed from the interior of an avocado with the peel intact. Therefore, the only way for him to Pit the avocados before peeling them requires him to do exactly what he did. You will note that **Ogre** ’s recipe uses the more logical sequence of peeling the avocados first, then pitting them. ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902/20 "2003-10-12T00:46:38Z")
Thank you, **Weirddave**. That’s the best laugh I’ve had in days. [drool] Mmmmmmmmm. Guacamole. [/drool] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-avacodos/206902.md?page=2)