# Guacamole or hummus? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882 "2019-06-22T11:57:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/1 "2019-06-22T11:57:41Z")
You must give up guacamole or hummus for the rest of your life. Why? Because I am in charge and I so decree. If you cannot choose, you may have neither. For the rest of your life. What’ll it be? (note that you cannot mash up avocados and call it “not guacamole” and you cannot mash up garbanzo beans and call it “not hummus”. You are also giving up the 'cados and 'banzos) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/2 "2019-06-22T12:04:32Z")
Since I don’t like guacamole(or avocados in general), that’s an easy choice. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/3 "2019-06-22T12:18:18Z")
I eat more hummus, but also love guac. I’d give up the guac mostly because it doesn’t keep well. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/4 "2019-06-22T12:19:18Z")
Hummus is fine, nothing wrong with it, it makes a perfectly acceptable dip for pita chips or whatever… but good guacamole is food of the gods. Which makes this an easy enough choice for me. And I know that if **running coach** and I are ever together at some event with snacks, we won’t be competing for dip. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/5 "2019-06-22T12:55:57Z")
Hummus is easier to make, I usually keep canned chickpeas in the pantry. It always seems the avocados at the store are too hard and will take a couple days to ripen. Who plans that far ahead? But I do love guacamole. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/6 "2019-06-22T13:02:29Z")
Hmmmm, one of the tougher choices I’ve ever been asked to make. I’d pick Guac, because Baba Ganoush could fill my hummus niche. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/7 "2019-06-22T13:25:37Z")
Bloody hell Mr. Mustard, you really ARE mean, arntcha? Really tough call, but the thought of giving up pittas, stuffed with falafel, packed with pickled chillies, and oozing with hummus is unbearable. As with **kayaker** , I’d have to fill my dipping hole (as it were) with baba ganoush and taramasalata. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/8 "2019-06-22T13:46:34Z")
Porque no los dos? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/9 "2019-06-22T14:09:07Z")
I’d miss guac, but I like hummus better. Keeps longer. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/10 "2019-06-22T14:10:57Z")
Hummus . Easiest poll I’ve ever seen 😉 . ---
**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:** [June 22, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/11 "2019-06-22T14:18:45Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’d miss guac, but I like hummus better. Keeps longer. Heh. Perishability of guacamole and humus has never been an issue for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/12 "2019-06-22T14:20:05Z")
Up until this very moment I thought Sophie’s Choice was the most cruel decision a person could ever be faced with. Damn you. Damn you to hell, MMM. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/13 "2019-06-22T14:23:03Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Up until this very moment I thought Sophie’s Choice was the most cruel decision a person could ever be faced with. > > Damn you. Damn you to hell, MMM. :mad: I know, I know. For me, it’s 50.1% guac, 49.9% hummus. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/14 "2019-06-22T14:31:40Z")
For me, Hummus is all about the bread and the dip (lovely though it is) is the sideshow. Giving up the hummus means I’m not giving up the best bit of it. A perfect guacamole is a thing of ephemeral beauty. All the more precious because the ripeness of the avocados on offer dictates whether you can make it all and when you do it don’t keep. (though my tip is to pat down a layer of cling-film onto the top of the guacamole, pushing all the air out. That way it’ll not discolour for a couple of days…like it’s going to last that long anyway:rolleyes:) So guacamole it is. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/15 "2019-06-22T14:33:56Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’d miss guac, but I like hummus better. > [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > Hummus . > > Easiest poll I’ve ever seen 😉 . Aye; I only had to think for about .02 seconds on this one before I was saying what **Qadgop** said. Guac is good but hummus is da bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/16 "2019-06-22T14:36:04Z")
Is this really a question? Taking away my hummus is tantamount to taking away my oxygen. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/17 "2019-06-22T14:38:14Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I know, I know. > > For me, it’s 50.1% guac, 49.9% hummus. > mmm In that case, out of spite and to keep the world from spinning off its axis, put me down for hummus. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/18 "2019-06-22T14:39:37Z")
A couple of people have mentioned that hummus lasts longer than guac. This is true. The reason that guac doesn’t last long is because it all gets et. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/19 "2019-06-22T14:40:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Since I don’t like guacamole(or avocados in general), that’s an easy choice. This. I don’t hate avocado, and if some is lurking in my sushi I’ll eat it. But I don’t eat guac at all. I’m not a huge hummus fan, either, but I do like it in a falafel sandwich, and sometimes put some on a corner of pita as a quick lunch. But if I suddenly became allergic, I’d miss my husband’s killer whole chick pea dish a lot more than hummus. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882/20 "2019-06-22T14:44:03Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Hummus is fine, nothing wrong with it, it makes a perfectly acceptable dip for pita chips or whatever… > > but good guacamole is food of the gods. Which makes this an easy enough choice for me. > … I feel the same way. Hummus, if it were never invented or goes away, I wouldn’t miss it, but if it’s there I will use it. Guacamole is in another world of flavor treats. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guacamole-or-hummus/835882.md?page=2)