# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/61 "2016-09-04T04:53:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > One of the biographies I read back in the '80s (Joachim Fest’s?) specifically mentioned Hitler ordering ravioli at a restaurant, but I suppose he indulged in dumplings of other nationalities as well. Mussolini probably sent gifts of _ravioli_ to Hitler, and Hitler responded by sending _maultaschen_ to Mussolini. During the war, the Japanese emperor may have joined in the fun by shipping them both _wonton_ prepared by enslaved Chinese cooks. The Axis of Noodle. How jolly! ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/62 "2016-09-04T08:59:01Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > \*Have I missed any? :dubious: His sister-in-law claims that he visited Liverpool in 1912, possibly to evade being drafted into the Austrian army. So far no one has been able to produce corroborating evidence for the trip. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/63 "2016-09-04T09:46:44Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Rule #1: Absolutely no juice! It is verboten! > > (Surprisingly, gefilte fish is a-ok). Only when served with a side order of Arbeit Macht Fries. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2016, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/64 "2016-09-04T10:55:56Z")
If definitive proof that Hitler ate guacamole existed, I’m sure the Avocado Board would be playing that up in their advertising. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/65 "2016-09-04T15:30:28Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Only when served with a side order of Arbeit Macht Fries. That’s it. Both of you, out of the pool! ---
**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 4, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/66 "2016-09-04T15:47:11Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > His sister-in-law claims that he visited Liverpool in 1912, possibly to evade being drafted into the Austrian army. So far no one has been able to produce corroborating evidence for the trip. Not bloody likely, since he was an impoverished failed artist living in a Vienna men’s home in 1912. His failure to register for military service was probably the reason he left Vienna for Munich in May 1913, once he had access to his father’s legacy. Hitler’s relatives from one of his father’s previous marriages were always spreading stories like this once he became famous, usually to try and gouge some money from him. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/67 "2016-09-04T15:58:50Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > One of the biographies I read back in the '80s (Joachim Fest’s?) specifically mentioned Hitler ordering ravioli at a restaurant, but I suppose he indulged in dumplings of other nationalities as well. It could simply be that Fest wrote _“Maultaschen”_ and whoever translated the bio into English chose to render the word as “ravioli.” > [@terentii](#): > > The incident occurred during a road trip in his new Mercedes after he struck it rich with _ **Mein Kampf** _. Did Hitler make a fortune from _Mein Kampf_? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/68 "2016-09-04T16:16:18Z")
nvm ---
**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 4, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/69 "2016-09-04T23:58:50Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#): > > It could simply be that Fest wrote _“Maultaschen”_ and whoever translated the bio into English chose to render the word as “ravioli.” Could be. Or, it could have been Toland’s biography I was remembering. > [@](#): > > Did Hitler make a fortune from _Mein Kampf_? Oh, God, yes! It didn’t sell at first, but as the Party grew, everybody and his brother had to have a copy. After the Nazis came to power, two-volume gift sets were given by the state to all newlywed couples. _ **Mein Kampf** _ made Hitler a millionaire even before January 1933. On his tax returns, he gave his profession as “Writer.” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/70 "2016-09-05T01:23:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > He also apparently ate one helluva lot of beans, which gave him bad stomach cramps and powerful flatulence, something noted by more than one unsympathetic observer. Ew! Which only goes to prove my theory, [del]Germans love David Hasselhoff[/del] Hitler stinks! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/71 "2016-09-06T17:01:25Z")
\*First, they came for the Fajitas, and I did not speak out… Then they came for the Beans and Rice, and I did not speak out… Then they came for the Guacamole, and there was no one left to speak out.\* ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/72 "2016-09-06T23:05:24Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > \*First, they came for the Fajitas, and I did not speak out… > > Then they came for the Beans and Rice, and I did not speak out… > > Then they came for the Guacamole, and there was no one left to speak out.\* Then they came for the haggis and I said “OK. Are you sure?” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571/73 "2016-09-07T12:09:22Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Isn’t there a children’s rhyme about Hitler having only one avocado? Goring had two, but they were smavacado. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-hitler-ever-eat-an-avocado-need-answer-fastish-by-friday/764571.md?page=3)