Short answer: no. THe only thing she adds to fresh avocados, usually two, is a packet of mix that hangs over the produce section along with other such mixes. I’m not sure I’ve even tasted it myself!
If you’re like I am (and it seems you may be) I can’t just come out with a list of cute responses off the top of my head. I have to be prompted or provoked by some outside trigger. I have seen such lists and always enjoy them for the humor, but I don’t think I could dash off a list of them on cue or on demand.
You’re right about 'Nooga. I have never ridden the inclined railway as an adult, may have as a kid. The most fascinating thing about that mountain is that a major Civil War battle was waged there over a matter of several days (or longer). The idea that people wearing heavy backpacks and carrying rifles scaled the northern side of the hill to engage the ones on top who were well fortified, just blows my mnd.
One sad thing about the place is the “see seven states” myth. The air pollution nowadays limits the view to Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and on the better days maybe a high point in one of the Carolinas. Kentucky and Virginia? No way.
Yes the South is rich in Civil War history! I do recall that bit of it. Amazing isnt it, and they wore just the most rudimentary of “uniforms”, and sometimes worn out shoes. Did you happen to read “Cold Mountain”?
Yes. And saw the movie. The book was way better, I thought. That’s some rugged country for sure over that way. And some really scary roads to boot. If we ever leave Nashville it will either be for Asheville or Camden, Maine.
Ah, nostalgia! As a child, a couple of our relatives had avocado trees. Mom would make avocado dip, definitely not guacamole, by squishing avocadoes and adding what looked like up to a quarter cup of mayonnaise.
In high school, my folks bought a house on an acre lot with more than a dozen avocado trees. There were two or three Hass (or Haas) and the rest were Fuerte. One fruited in the summer and the other in winter. But until you pick them they don’t start to ripen, and it was Southern California. So basically, we had avocadoes year round.
We still used the same recipe, with maybe less mayo per avocado. Or we had avocado sandwiches. Or we just ate them with a spoon.
When I moved out, I started experimenting with sour cream and cream cheese. I decided that I liked cream cheese and that I prefered adding (Shudder! Horror!) salt.
I certainly don’t mean to derail the avocado theme, but I was fascinated by the trees in the yard thing. One of the things I miss most about the place we lived when I was in grammar school was that it had five or six pecan trees in the yard and we never ran out of them. Thing is, if you crack and eat them one at a time, you can keep eating them all day!
I lived at my aunt’s house in LA for a summer and was astounded at how big avocado trees grew there! They overshadowed her little stucco house. She never ate them but told me to help myself. Its a wonder I didnt turn green from eating so many! All the free guac I wanted all the time! Everything grows out there!
I never made guac any other way than the recipe I posted tho …
If I had PEEcawn trees Id be making PEEcawn pies til they came out my ears! And pralines!
Wouldn’t that be an amazing thing to wear around your neck at parties? And instead of chirping it would sound like one of those European cop car claxons.
I’m visualizing one of those stand in a bunch in face-to-face sotto voce conversations with soft music playing and you and the other one are getting very serious about some topic when suddenly the other says something to trigger your BS Meter and everybody hits the deck.
Here it is some 13 hours later on a new day with rising outside temps and a question for the gang. At the rate the posts are building up in this thread it may soon be desirable to start yet another for the benefit of the participants in the first two.
The question is: do we want to come up with a consensus name for this crowd?
Even if we don’t, what would be a good title for Episode 3?
And would any of you like to be the thread starter for the next one?
Sounds like you’re not approving of “Ask Zeldar”. How about “Zeldar’s Zenility Zone: Timeless Enlightenment Occurring In Time” ??
I’ll bring oatmeal cookies to the gathering.
Weekly thread title changes will make a generic name evolve; Yllaria will soon be handing out $10 bills to each, any, and all of us.
Hi, VB! (How do you pronounce your handle?) Yeah, I’m not too thrilled with my handle being the thing that links these threads (ostensibly for the older crowd) as they move along with other people taking ownership of similar discussions and ramblings.
I do commend you for the hilarious riff on Z though! Nice work.
Oatmeal cookies rate highly with me, and I just finished a pack of Windmill Almond cookies that I started yesterday. So, yeah!
My main point in asking about the name is that I was thinking of going back and collecting all the proposals and posting them in one post so we could start the discussion in earnest. That would be worth the trouble IF there’s any real interest for it.
One piece puts me in a coma!
