# Did Hitler ever eat an Avocado? Need answer fastish (by friday) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571 "2016-08-31T15:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/21 "2016-08-31T19:49:45Z")
Even though he was a vegetarian, he never imposed his predelictions on his luncheon guests. One one occasion, he was chowing down on a plate of vegetables as his guests were served a roast pig. In a moment of true Hitlerian wit, he remarked “That looks exactly like a roast baby to me!” No doubt this livened up the mood around the table! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/22 "2016-08-31T19:51:23Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Did he try to eat it like a pear? Classic rookie mistake. I know of a least one Russian couple who, when confronted with an avocado for the first time, threw away the fleshy part and took a hammer to the pit, trying to break it open. **Duh!** :smack: ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/23 "2016-08-31T19:55:27Z")
Of all the seeds Mother Nature has to offer, it is the pit of the avocado that most closely approximates the average size of the human adult male’s teste. you just checked, dint ya? Now go wash up. ETA: of course I’m talking about the Hass cultivar. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/24 "2016-08-31T19:59:09Z")
I think he was probably given one by Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Haas. Oh wait … 5 minutes too late. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/25 "2016-08-31T20:15:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > As good as the song is, there’s no medical evidence to back up the claim. ☹ [I guess we have to conclude that in some departments, at least, Hitler really wasn’t all there.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/881/did-hitler-have-only-one-testicle) > [@terentii](#): > > _And Goebbels hasn’t > got any > at all!_ I heard it this way: _And Goebbels Has no balls At all!_ ‘Goebbels’ was pronounced very close to ‘go-balls’, so as to rhyme with ‘no balls’. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/26 "2016-08-31T20:24:27Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The song said Hitler has only got one ball. … but he had Lots of Dips…? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/27 "2016-08-31T22:04:17Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Yeah, and that’s what I feared may be the case. I wasn’t actually aware that he was vegetarian… Hmmm, now I want to say to someone, “You know who else was a vegetarian?..” but I don’t know if I wanna go there. As I understand it, Hitler wasn’t so much a vegetarian as someone who went on what we might call “cleanses.” An occasional vegetarian. ETA: Well, I defer to\*\* terentii\*\*. I’m probably wrong. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/28 "2016-08-31T22:28:46Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Well, I defer to\*\* terentii\*\*. I’m probably wrong. He was subjected to some dubious “cures” by his personal physician, who was quite a quack (his specialty was actually treating STDs). At one point, Hitler was administered anti-gas pills that contained strychnine, which only aggravated his stomach cramps. In the autumn of 1944, he became very ill and lost something like 20 pounds in a couple of weeks, existing largely on a diet of oatmeal soup. So yeah, periodic purges were likely a part of his routine. There’s a documentary about Dr Theodore Morrell on YouTube. It’s pretty bizarre. With regard to Hitler’s suicide, I don’t think there are many historians today who give credence to the Soviet claims of having recovered and autopsied his body. Eyewitness accounts say he was soaked with 50 gallons of gasoline, and after it burned nothing was left but a pile of ashes. Also, the Chancellery garden was under constant bombardment by Soviet artillery for another week. All they were ever able to recover and positively identify were his jawbone and some dental appliances. Goebbels and his wife could be identified because there was less gasoline left to douse them with, and they were evidently more sheltered by the entrance to the bunker. The Propaganda Minister had a seventh child, BTW, a grown son from an earlier marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/29 "2016-09-01T01:38:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > He’d never had guacamole? In this day and age? Weird. > > The song said Hitler has only got one ball. Funny enough, “aguacate”, the word in Spanish for avocado – and where “avocado” comes from – has its origins in the Nahuatl word for testicle. Those Aztec men were truly gifted. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/30 "2016-09-01T03:00:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > He’d never had guacamole? In this day and age? Weird. > > The song said Hitler has only got one ball. One ball to rule them all…and in the darkness bind them? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/31 "2016-09-01T05:12:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > His favorite snack/dessert, BTW, was a plateful of apples. How did he like them apples? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/32 "2016-09-01T06:14:15Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Of course he did. You know, when he moved to Argentina, where he lived to at least age 95. Try discussing this at your next shindig. I would sooo much rather have that conversation with someone going by John Galt. Though **k9bfriende** r isn’t a bad name, because, yanno- and I will give you exactly one guess- do you know who else liked dogs? Anyway, speaking of Hitler’s flatulence, and I’ll be darned if I can find a link, but in Charles Bukowski’s short story collection The Bell Tolls for No One there is a story called A Dirty Trick on God in which a post-WWII Hitler animates the farts of others for his own dark purposes. If you could use a laugh, check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/33 "2016-09-01T11:42:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Goebbels and his wife could be identified because there was less gasoline left to douse them with, and they were evidently more sheltered by the entrance to the bunker. The Propaganda Minister had a seventh child, BTW, a grown son from an earlier marriage. I believe the seventh child was Harald Quandt, who was from an earlier marriage that Magda Goebbels had. I don’t believe Goebbels had a previous marriage. It’s quite possible Goebbels had illegitimate children. Albert Speer said as Minister of Propaganda Goebbels had immense control of the German film industry. He had a casting couch a Hollywood mogul would envy and Goebbels wasn’t shy about using it. Quandt survived the war and died in 1967 a very rich man in the German automobile industry. His five daughters are estimated to be worth $6 billion. > **[Harald Quandt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Quandt)** > > Harald Quandt (1 November 1921 – 22 September 1967) was a German industrialist, the son of Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Rietschel. His parents divorced and his mother was later married to Joseph Goebbels. After World War II, Quandt and his older half-brother Herbert Quandt ran the industrial empire left to them by their father owning a stake mainly in Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW and the electric battery producer VARTA which emerged from Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA which still belon Ha... ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/34 "2016-09-01T12:10:32Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > I believe the seventh child was Harald Quandt, who was from an earlier marriage that Magda Goebbels had. I don’t believe Goebbels had a previous marriage. Interesting. I had always known him just as Goebbels’s “grown son”; I did not realize he was actually his stepson. Ignorance fought! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/35 "2016-09-01T12:11:13Z")
[Well, according to one of Hitler’s 15 food tasters](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315369/Hitlers-food-delicious--asparagus-bell-peppers-rice-pasta-Nazis-official-taste-tester-reveals-diet-fuelled-Fuhrer.html): > [@](#): > > With many Germans battling with food shortages and a bland diet as the war dragged on, sampling Hitler’s food had its advantages. > > ‘The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you can imagine. And always with a side of rice or pasta,’ she recalled. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/36 "2016-09-01T12:24:55Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > [Well, according to one of Hitler’s 15 food tasters](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315369/Hitlers-food-delicious--asparagus-bell-peppers-rice-pasta-Nazis-official-taste-tester-reveals-diet-fuelled-Fuhrer.html): Also interesting. She mentions “pasta”; another of his favorite dishes was ravioli. He often drank tea made from apple peels, and an afternoon walk from the Berghof to his Tea House for coffee, tea, and cakes was part of his daily ritual while at Berchtesgaden. He also loved caviar, but refused to eat gifts of it after the July 1944 assassination attempt. The dog’s name, BTW, was Blondi. Blondie is the wife of Dagwood Bumstead. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/37 "2016-09-01T13:46:04Z")
> [@skdo23](#): > > Just to be clear, you told the other guest that Hitler specifically never had guacamole, not just avocado, right? B/c that would make it a bit more likely that you were right, and harder for someone else to prove you wrong. > [@silenus](#): > > I think you’re safe. Even if Hitler did have an avocado sometime in his life, the chances of that avocado being prepared **as guacamole** are vanishingly small. Well, that should work well enough. > [@kayaker](#): > > You’re _that_ **k9bfriender**? > > Wow. Possibly, if you happen to be in my circle of friends. I am pretty sure I get invited to most of these events largley on the appetizers I bring. I’ve done gauc recently mostly because it takes me like 10 minutes, and most other things take longer. (The secret is white pepper) Don’t go by my screen handle IRL, but everyone knows of my love of dogs. > [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I would sooo much rather have that conversation with someone going by John Galt. Though **k9bfriende** r isn’t a bad name, because, yanno- and I will give you exactly one guess- do you know who else liked dogs? Well, I would never test my suicide pill on a dog. That part of Hitlers story actually choked me up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/38 "2016-09-01T14:16:20Z")
Yes, I read about Hitler’s eating habits. And I, looks like, have the same habits. A lot of potato, beans, cheese and veggies, some meat now and then, and some fruit. Complete starving days once a week. A lot of farting. Any dietitians with an idea what that “Hitler Diet” do to your body? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/39 "2016-09-02T07:17:02Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Well, I would never test my suicide pill on a dog. That part of Hitlers story actually choked me up a bit. They say you only hurt the ones you love. But seriously, I think it is possible that Hitler ate guacamole, though not likely. Did he have cumin? Did he have tomatoes? Um, he was the Fuhrer, I think he probably could have procured those things. But did he combine the proper elements to create guacamole? I dunno. Actually, he did have a sort of alliance with Mexico wrt to a conquered United States, but can you really blame them? No. Guacamole could certainly have happened, even if it is undocumented. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/40 "2016-09-02T08:57:09Z")
I’m betting no on the whole guacamole thing, and even if he had, it probably wasn’t real guacamole, it probably had lime or garlic in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571.md?page=3)