The Strange History of Avocados
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, we look at the history behind a fruit of growing popularity: The avocado berry. Where did it come from, how did it develop, and how did it get to where it is today?
Find us here too!
Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Fireoflearning
Lucinox - Our Science Channel: / @lucinoxofficial
Instagram: @Fire_of_Learning
The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Download available at incompetech.com
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049 [orig. by JS Bach]
Accralate
These songs provided by the TH-cam audio library
Spanish Rose
Summer Symphony Ball
Sources and further reading
[1] Galindo-Tovar, María Elena, et al. “THE AVOCADO (PERSEA AMERICANA, LAURACEAE) CROP IN MESOAMERICA: 10,000 YEARS OF HISTORY.” i Harvard Papers in Botany vol. 12, no. 2, 2007, pp. 325-334. iJSTOR/i www.jstor.org/stable/41761865. Accessed 10 Sept. 2021.
[2] Landon, Amanda J., "Domestication and Significance of Persea americana, the Avocado, in Mesoamerica" (2009). Nebraska Anthropologist. 47. digitalcommons...
[3] "Domestic avocado consumption in the United States from 1985 to 2022." Statista.
www.statista.c...
[4] Smith, K. Annabelle. "Why the Avocado Should Have Gone the Way of the Dodo." Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 24, 2013.
www.smithsonia...
[5] "Avocado." Encyclopedia Britannica. www.britannica...
[6] "Avocado." Etymonline.
www.etymonline...
[7] Handwerk, Brian. "Holy Guacamole: How the Hass Avocado Conquered the World." Smithsonian Magazine, July 28, 2017. www.smithsonia...
[8] Kelly, Guy. "A Cultural History of the Avocado." BBC Three, 31 July 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk/...
[9] Blakemore, Erin. "The Illustrious History of the Avocado." JSTOR Daily, May 18, 2017.
daily.jstor.or...
[10] Ayala Silva, Tomas & Ledesma, Noris. (2014). Avocado History, Biodiversity and Production. 10.1007/978-3-319-06904-3_8.
Photo attributions
commons.wikime...
By B.navez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
By Bex Walton from London, England - Avocado toast at Voyager Espresso, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikime...
By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2, commons.wikime...
By Edrean - This photo was staged for the purpose of showing some characteristics of the Maluma avocado, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
By Cortina David - Own work, commons.wikime...
By Nsaum75 at English Wikipedia, commons.wikime...
By Edrean - Photo was taken on the farm Avondshoek in Tzaneen, South Africa, commons.wikime...
By Luisfi - Own work, commons.wikime...
By Prsjl - Own work, commons.wikime...
By Leoadec - Own work, commons.wikime...
By Daniel Schwen - Own work, commons.wikime...
By User:Madman2001 - Made it myself based on several drawingsReferences for this description (or part of this) or for the depiction in the file are not provided.Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page., commons.wikime...
By User:Authenticmaya~commonswiki - Own work, commons.wikime...
By Antony Stanley from Gloucester, UK - Temple of Inscriptions, Palenque, commons.wikime...
By Wolfgang Sauber - Own work, commons.wikime...
By walknboston - originally posted to Flickr as Avocado!, commons.wikime...
By Mark Hofstetter - Own work, commons.wikime...
By Fir0002 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, commons.wikime...
By marya - originally posted to Flickr as the avocado tree next door, commons.wikime...
By Nicole De Khors - burst.shopify...., commons.wikime...
By Callan Bird - www.flickr.com..., commons.wikim
I hated avocados, for years I avoided them like the plague. then one day after consuming tequila, I went to a little mom-and-pop Mexican restaurant in Tucson and ordered a plate of burritos. it came back with avocados on it. well, I was just drunk enough to eat them. now they are one of my favorite foods. can't seem to get enough of them. I guess I'm making up for the lost time.
Nathaniel, I remember when I was a little kid and mom would cook peas and serve them. 😂
Needless to say I would only eat one at a time and after the third one I be choking 🤣. Guess what now I love the baby green peas now. So, I wonder was else did I miss?? When I was a kid😂😂😂
Fun fact - every ~7 years or so you replace all your taste buds. So you might end up hating your favorite food, or loving the food you hated the most... worth to do a "tasting" party of things you didn't like before every 7 years or so.
@@rxappdev that explains a lot. foods I once loved I now don't care for..i.e...pizza, chili. and those things I hated I now eat regularly. thanks for sharing.
@@nathanielcohen9890 Cheers! Glad you found some new foods. Some foods also require getting used to. Like first time they might not be appealing, usually by 3-5th time you will either start liking it or know you don't for sure. Like most people do not like coffee and olives - at first. And good you lost your appetite for pizza, not the healthiest of foods.
I have avocado multiple times trying to convince myself to like it. But God it's just so gross.
I grew up eating avocados and I realized a few years ago that all of a sudden it was “trendy” and I did not understand it at all. Then I read someone comment that they didn’t have avocados in Germany until recently and that’s when I realized that it wasn’t a worldwide fruit. It grows in our backyards in Dominican Republic so I never even gave it thought. 😂
Do you have Stachelbeeren? Because of it grows in my backyard 🤣
I grew up in southern California and ate avocados everyday growing up. There still orchards that sell them 12 for $1.00.
We tried to grow an avocado tree in SE Tx, but we had a slight frost and it was destroyed. We had a frost resistant Meyer lemon tree for about 15-16 yrs and in 2021 there were 36 hrs of 28Fahrenheit which made it freeze and never recovered.
Someone must have transplanted it to the DR at some point.
@@BBB-rd2qi Nothing costs a dollar anymore. What's the address?
I spent three months in Guatemala a few years back. I miss being able to just find avocados growing on the side of the road
I have one in my backyard
That's one thing I love about Guatemala. The soil and weather is so good that if you throw a seed or a piece of fruit chances are pretty good that something will grow out of it. A while back someone in my family must've spitted out a watermelon seed and sure enough six months or so later there was a plant with watermelons growing on it.
The chances of any random avocado seed producing a fruit that tastes good is about 1:10,000.
You were lucky on the time of year you visited since avocados are seasonal. Mango season overlaps with avocado season. Good times.
My family grows avocados in uruapan, Michoacán Mexico! The whole town is known for them, I highly recommend visiting. My immediate family has since immigrated and started an orchard here in the Bay Area! If anybody has any questions on starting I am happy to help! :)
If someone were to grow avacados from pit, how bad would they be? Less good, awful, poisonous?
@@fnamelname9077 it’s a random result! But more than likely the fruit will be bad and awful. It might actually not bear any fruit as well. I recommend grafting, you can start your avocado seeds now and graft when you find a separate plant. Lowe’s sells hass avocado plants that you can use to graft into the plant(s) you started from seed.
@@fnamelname9077 note that grafting can be tricky so don’t give up after the first try!
@@jesussandoval9843 Thanks for the advice!
@@fnamelname9077 you’re welcome, good luck!
We have a Haas Avocado tree in our backyard that was a housewarming gift in 1928 given to the original owner builder by Mr. Haas himself (they worked together and were friends).The tree is still alive and well and produces amazing avocados to this day. It is approximately 45-50 feet tall by the way!
WOW what an amazing bit of history you have. It is wonderful to still have a tree
That is a little over 90 years old
Its just incredible how much of everything we use today comes from the Maya and Native Americans, europeans have "traditional" foods that all have origins in the Americas like tomatoes and potatoes.
Chocolate, corn, hot peppers, squash, beans... so much of the food is intermixed now. The colombian exchange.
I recommend a video titled,
“the animated history of Mexico”
In short they talk about the Colombian exchange and how important the America’s and Mexico’s trade were to Europe. It’s a pretty good video.
@@juliogalindo9239 and vanilla
Many fruits, chili peppers, the list goes on.
Look for video 'History of Beans'.
I'm excited for the food history videos! People don't appreciate how unusual the produce aisle really is. May I suggest a video on the history of the kiwi fruit (or Chinese gooseberry as it was known before marketing)?
In México grow so many varieties my favorite was a plum size, pear shape, grape kind of skin, but the flavor was licorice with a touch of fennel. It's eaten with the skin. One day I found in the Sierra madre a wild avocado tree the size was like a small olive. The meat was very scarce, but the smell and taste was very strong I believe the fruit was eaten for deer and hogs because I found many tracks.
yeah is so nice.
My neighbor here in California has a Mexican variety that is plum size but no seed and skin is so thin you can eat it whole, flavor Is a bit tart but good
In Guatamala the wild Avocado is the favorite food of the Quetzal bird. Try are about olive size and the trees grow very large and make many fruits. If you want to see a Quetzal , look for big wild Avocado trees.
that is aewsome!
What is your favorite called?
Growing up in South Florida, I was often given large paper sacks of My avocadoes, Papayas, tangelos , grapefruits etc from friends who had the trees with bountiful crops in their yards. I did not like avocados for my first 26 years although the ones grown there were huge and mostly grown were the "Hass" variety , and about as large as a small football or half an egg carton. I threw away SO many, but when I moved to Texas , I discovered that I was in love with guacamole and avocadoes during the pregnancy with my daughter, and ALL Mexican dishes and Salsas as well! But when I first went to but one I was shocked to see them only as big as a large chicken egg or a Roma tomato! I could have beat my own butt for how I threw out so many gorgeous ones before in the trash, and didn't know I liked them that much! Today They are precious to me ,!
Little tomato plant growing in the back yard
My grandma has two 🥑 🌳 in Sinaloa 🇲🇽 but the best ones are grown in Michoacán 🇲🇽 respect
On the island of Kaua'i we have about 40 varieties, here on the big island they grow very easily and fruit plentifully too. I haven't been to Mexico since I was a kid and would love to go see the beautiful orchards and lands of Mexico.
@@AdamWestish going to the right spots you’ll bust a nutt… theirs avocados that grow almost the size of my big 8 size head
👍🏿
The best imo are the Guatemalan ones!!
@@nic558 maybe
I live in South Florida where many of us grow avocados in our backyards and we often give some to our neighbors sometimes in exchange for mangoes which we also grow in abundance.
What a dream!
The avocado is quite popular in Latinamerica, often considered a meal staple accompanying salad. In fact, there is a constant debate between countries that call it “palta” and countries that call it “aguacate”
Is called palta only in four countries, Bolivia , Peru , chile and Argentina , in Brasil is called abuacate , and all other countries of. South America called aguacate word that comes from the Nahuatl language that means testicle , because it’s shape , Nahuatl language ( Aztec ) was spoken in all Mesoamérica as linguales franca , was spoken for several tribes , called Nahuatlacas tribes that came from the mythical cove of chicomostoc ( place if the seven coves) located in the mythical region of Aztlan , land of herons place that may be in northern Mexico, even USA or Canada , some tribes of the USA, claim they were the ancestors of the Aztec , which my be true , genetically we are the same people ,
Still spoken for about 5 million people , it has at least 20 different dialects
found a “Florida” avocado variety in a Fiesta grocery store once. It had smooth green skin instead of the alligator skin, and was the size of a small papaya but twice the size of your average Hass avocado. It was delectable. Juicier, not as “buttery” as the Hass but dang it was also real good on its own.
Most avocados can get huge but they're usually harvested early for easier transportation
The watery type not oily ha
At my store they have it under the name slimcavo
This is a variety more popular in the Caribbean, I like them but they are not the same as Hass.
My favorite one's!
In Jamaica we know the Avocado 🥑 as a Pear pronounce PEER 🍐. so when I came to America When I was offer a pear 🍐 I was like wtf is this! LOL 😂
😂
I'm a simple man with simple wants; I see a new Fire of Learning video, I click.
Yeah me to
Ttttttttttt
I do something, something, I love and understand. Watch new fire of learning videos that is.
Youre a lame man, you see a youtube comment and you copy it.
@@whocares8735 This comment format has been making rounds on this godforsaken website for over a decade.
Live with it.
I put Avacados seeds in the local park, right where a seep, has started in recent years.
2 have come up so far, others to be checked as they are in a slightly different situation - still near water. I would like to see then survive "Freinds of the park", when they go on working bees.
my great grandfather and his brother were both pioneers in the avocado industry. they were partly responsible for the popularization of it in the US in the 1900s. theres an avocado species named after them.
Very cool!
I learned that if you try to grow an avocado from seed you'll most likely get a very nasty trading fruit from the cross pollination of what ever it came from. 1 in 10k might taste good. Grafting is the way to keep the fruit consistent. Thanks for your family contributions.
Ah yes, the Lightning-Wolf Alligator Pear. A fine and famous cultivar.
@@neckbone3943 1 in 10,000 is an absurd myth, probably contrived to sell grafted trees, and further confuse the public. with the mexican criollos we grow here in north central florida, it's more like 8 or 9 in 10 seedlings make decent quality fruit. yes, asexual propagation methods are the only way to get the exact same type of fruit, but not the only way to get good fruit
@@lordofoats with that variety, how long until they produce fruit? What temperature can they withstand?
when I lived in CA in the 2000s I could buy them 10 for $1 from stands off the freeway when it was in season. I didn't know this happened until recently, but they were probably stolen. My favorite thing about them is that it has such a mild flavor that it can be used in many things and it takes on the flavor of what you add. I like it a plain or in other things.
Edited for clarity
That damn fruit maffia....
Seriously fruitsellers have to live too. Nobody got filthy rich selling fruit - like say oil companies selling oil
You can still get large avocados 2/1 in summer. It’s haas that are overpriced. A good sized bacon bigger than a softball can found for .50
Inflation in price because of popularity
now used more in vegan foods .
I’ve always lived in California, in an area where avocados are grown. I’ve never seen 10 for $1.
@@genxx2724 I saw them on the side of the 15 near Fallbrook around 2002. I'm assuming now (I didn't know this happened until fairly recently) that they were probably stolen because of the price & that they were set up at a freeway. Hope this explains it better
Nooooo you can't stop talking about medieval Europe to talk about ancient domesticated vegetables!!!
FoL: haha red watermelons go birrrrr
What really sucks is even if you eat a perfect Avocado with great texture and taste you can't plant the seed and get the same fruit.
About 7 years ago, I took a supermarket avocado seed and after partially suspending it over water with toothpicks for some time to let roots grow, I planted it. It took and it is a beautiful plant today. However, I still have not had any avocados from it. I keep waiting. Someday......... I hope. :)
@@Ravensonng hopefully you get a new breed of creamy delicous avocados
@@RavensonngI think you need two avocado trees to get fruit - a ‘male’ and a ‘female’ plant.
@@Ravensonng I’ve heard it takes something like 7 or 8 years before they start bearing fruit.
Apples are the same.
Saw my first avocado Feb 1983. I was 14. We didn't have them in Wi. But moved to Ca and discovered them. They were 10 cents. Love them!!
Yay! Food history! Looking forward to it!
Same, im waiting for the history of chilis
Thank you Mexico for this wonderful fruit!! 🙏🙏
epaepa 12; Central America too.
God planted it there
@@IslaVista61 no, hass is guatemaltecan but avocado no, it's mexican
Americans when seeing all countries below them: Mexico!!! Telenovelas, tacos!
One other thing you might add from DEEP history: the unusually large seeds of the avocado cannot be eaten whole by any living animal, and thereby spread to new areas through droppings. This means the wild avocado evolved to be eaten by animals which no longer exist -- like giant ground sloths and mastodons from the Pleistocene.
FANTASTIC OBSERVATION
I am a professor of Archeology and Ancient History.
I will disseminate this in my classes.
Thank you.
@@glenmccall8854 Much appreciated. I came across that somewhere a while back. The brief article said another seed -- mango, as I remember, was the same. But since humans were around with the last of the megafauna, perhaps our gardens are in part responsible for the survival of those large-seeded fruits.
@@mondopinion3777
You got my attention by the reference to mastodons and sloths.
I will have to admit that I am one of those nutty professors.
Much of my interest is centered around frozen Mammoths in the artic circle with undigested tropical plants in their stomach.
And, of course, that leads to dinosaurs and man's coexistence evidenced by their intermingled footprints captured in limestone in the Paluxy river bed at Glen Rose, Texas.
@@glenmccall8854 It's great to know your mind is open to different narratives. That makes you a true scientist.
4:08
Is likely in reference to a fruit related to the canistel fruit. Many early explorers likened the flavor to butter as it was sweet and yellowish (butter tasted different than most processed, whitish butters today). The fruit can range from yellow to orange, is mildly sweet and creamy, and has a boiled-yolk or butter-like consistency when ripe.
Avocado from ahuacatl nahuatl literally translates to testicle
Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be appreciated. You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on TH-cam. But brother I am waiting for an promised video on Skanderbeg when it will come? I have a curiosity also can I ask your name? And Where are you from?
Arizona has a 'native' avocado. The original tree is in Aravaipa Canyon and at least 100 years old. It's survived bitter cold freezes, floods, droughts, and hungry animals.
I'm happy that you're making a series about the history of fruits. I've been always curious about these odd looking watermelons
The word aguacate comes from the native word for testicle
Thanks, man. This is very informative. I came here to check about avocados to Mesoamerica, but learned much more. Cheers!
Reminds me of the old Vine: “It’s an avocado!...Thanks!”
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
Just so you know. I'm 65 and my great great grand parents had a huge avocado farm and ranch in Vista California, that I visited several times when I was 2, 3, and 4 years old. It was grand, without another property for miles in any direction. They produced tons of avocados per year, and raised cattle. They were members of an avocado growers association. Then the urban sprawl came in and ruined everything. It's all trash now.
gordon quigg; so sad.
I visited the Wetzel family in Fallbrook near there: they had five acres of avocado's and the value of the land was keeping their daughter disqualified for scholarships to University, but you can't just pull out the value of a farm. (1970)
The king has returned
I loved studying the development of agriculture in college anthropology courses. One of my professors felt that because avocadoes need so much water, the domestication of the plant indicated the development of irrigation at a much earlier date that we can prove. My son has an avocado tree in his yard in CA, the avoes have less flesh than what we get in the store but are tastier.
tactful to breeze by what the original indigenous name for avocados meant, referring to their resemblance to male anatomy.....!!)
Excited for more history of food!
I've always adored avocado. Back in the day I'd just eat them as is with a spoon. Back when they sold them sporadically alongside the lychee's, kumquats, starfruits, buddha's palm's, ect.
These days though the ones in the supermarket are no where near as good usually. The unfortunate side-effect of mass production. :(
I am obsessed with avocados,I used to hate them for years and years and never even tried it , one day I ate it by accident with a sandwich I ordered and that’s where my avocado love affair began and has been in my life everyday since. 🥑🥑🥑🥑🥑🥑💚💚💚💚
Avocados are an amazing fruit but here in Australia they're really quite expensive as the growers in Northern Australia seem to prefer to dump them rather than allow them to be sold cheaply down south.
Stop Fire of Learning ✋😡⚠⚠⚠! Where is the video about the Portuguese Empire, and respectively Brazil 👍😭✊?!
An ex gf's grandfather moved into the south eastern side of the San Fernando Valley in the 1920s (greater Los Angeles area). On his property were various fruit & nut trees - including some trees that had a green fruit with a huge seed in it. Having no knowledge of this fruit, he would throw all of them away. Finally, he saw them being sold in a grocery store and asked what they were and were they edible. He'd been throwing away barrels of avocados for years!
Avocado seeds usually aren't true to type, which means that the resultant trees are of a new variety. Generally, this means that they'll bear inferior fruit.
However, I have grown several avocado seedlings at home in case I produce a novel desirable variety.
I’ve also done the same, and even if they produce inferior fruit - you can just graft a better variety (or varieties) on the tree, even improving pollination.
The seeds are of a different variety than the fruit? How can that be?
I remember a short comic in a kids' magazine back when I was 9 or 10 featuring a man who visited Florida for the first time and was served a fruit he'd never had before. When he asked what it was (while ordering his 3rd or 4th serving), a waiter replied "Alligator Pear" -- and by the end of the story, the man had eaten so many that he'd basically turned into a giant 2-legged alligator and ran off into the Florida swamps to live out his life there. As a result of that dumb comic, I basically refused to eat the darn things until I was in my 20s. (I am now in my early 60s.)
The only problem I have avocados these days is that they're often either expensive and rock-hard inedible until they rot, or on sale cheap because they're black and squishy. One faint ray of hope is the avocado tree (survivor of a group of 5) I have growing in a large pot in my house. It's seemed to die at least twice only to sprout new leaves before I could bring myself to uproot it & toss it out, so hope remains alive... I'm also kind of laughing because after carefully following instructions on how to sprout an avocado seed for years without a single success, this tree (and the 4 now-dead saplings surrounding it) sprouted from an avocado pit that I literally just stuck into some potting soil in a pot one day... :-)
Put them in a paper bag.
Shop at a Mexican grocery store if there's one in your area. They have nice avocados.
Thanks for sharing that was a funny story. 😁
I buy avocados more than any other fruit. Their tough skin makes them very portable.
Great video! For anyone who loves avocados but hasn't had them in Hawai'i... go there! The avocados are HUGE in Hawai'i. All the fruit there is enormous and delicious. I stayed at a vacation home in the jungle that must have had thousands of huge avocados. Amazing.
I accidentally clicked and stayed through all of it and subbed, loved!
No mention of when and where in history someone figured out ripe avocados taste pretty darn good when mashed and mixed with salt and lemon juice (an Old World fruit)? And served with a side of tortilla chips? I think that's a pretty important turning point in the history of the avocado. Seriously!
If your doing food history, you should do one on the cabbage and its relatives (unless you did that already). That or eggplants.
It's called avocado 🥑 as they look like testicles. Mashed avocado on toast now makes me wince.
No mention of the giant sloths and the avocado?. Or avocados basically meaning testicles?? As Joe Biden would say, C'mon man!!
Tasting History and Food History on Fridays! I'm very happy.
Thank you Fire of Learning for this wonderful video. I found this totally fascinating. I adore avocados. I make my own guacamole and love it’s nutty taste and buttery texture. I am looking forward to watching more of your brilliant videos 💜😁🥑🍍
A Great avocado is creamy and nutty in flavor.
Cartels in Mexico also make money from the avocado business so youre most likely funding them when you buy avocados. Enjoy your fun fact
Why didn’t you mention the evolution of the fruit. That’s the most fascinating part! Especially the avocado.
If you don't mention the fact that avocado was originally translated from a word in Aztec or Mayan which meant testicle I'm going to be very disappointed
Am gay and I love both 😛😋
Avocado is a very awkward, strange name for this fruit. We call them aguacates.
I was born in Tehuacán in the state of Puebla, México, and grew up in Xalapa in the state of Veracuz-Llave, México.
You should try chinenes, which is a type of aguacate with a very smooth, buttery brown flesh. It is sometimes called aguacate de manteca for this reason. Unfortunately it doesn't do well growing in other countries and it is still mostly found in Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Tabasco.
You really should practice the proper pronunciation of names such as Tenochtitlán as well as Spanish names, it would help your credibility as a researcher.
I either heard, or read something years back, that said all Navel Oranges came from one ‘freak’ tree somewhere in South America. It said that Spanish missionaries brought cuttings to California, which were grafted onto (if I remember), Valencia rootstock. Is this true, that all Navels in existence, came from that tree? I’m intrigued by your videos, regarding the history of so many fruits and vegetables. Glad I found your channel. 👍👍
Growing up in Southern California, avocados were a seasonal treat and expensive in stores but available off the tree in some neighborhoods.
The avocado from philippines was brought by the mexicans during galleon trade. I hope you included it. Its the history of avocado.
My family grew Fuerte avocados in Pauma Valley, CA that were divine!. We thought the Haas variety was inferior because it was strong and oily. The Fuerte, however, was hard to handle, and had to be eaten at the perfect time of ripeness. The Haas is more forgiving, and is easier for markets to handle, hence its popularity.
@2:58 Nah dog, I'm an artist and lemme tell you, no amount of imagination, mushrooms or torture would make me see friggin trees in this depiction, hell now you made the spaceship hypothesis look 100x more plausible... Avocados? Where? outline them, draw a circle around them, anything. But you can't because there are no trees in this picture.
Is this like. the new Rorschach test?
Too damn bad that avocados have a higher street price than crystal meth
and there's a whole criminal aspect to it as well, in quite a few places in mexico where they grow it, there are groups who are "avocado mafia" and extort, harass and whatnot normal farmers.
@@PASTRAMIKick Avocado have a lot of places in which they are produced. Imo, the best avocados I have eaten are from Dominican Republic. The ones from Florida are sweet and that's not my taste.
In US dollar they are 70 cents each right now in Australia, decent size too
03:02.... Right now, Erich von Däniken would be having a nergassam with that picture....
Avocados in the Philippines originally came from Mexico during the Acapulco-Manila galleon trade during the 17th and 18th century. Spain governed the Philippines, which was and still is on the other side of the globe, via Acapulco which was at that time known as the New Spain.
most fruit on these videos comes from the American countinent
In some Andean countries it was and is called Palta, from the Quechua language. At least in Peru and Chile.
Correction, avocados are tropical fruits, not subtropical. Europe is subtropical, the tropical zone is the area between the tropic of Cancer in the north and the tropic of Capricorn in the south, including the equator.
Santa Paula, CA: Avocado orchards grow there and I remember picking the avocados off the trees & ground and just living in "eating heaven!"
Shoutout to ground sloths for giving us avocados 🥑
We Mexicans were the ones that ate them almost daily! Hipsters found them delicious and nutritious and then what do you know! The whole country likes them let’s us not forget who introduced avocados to the 🇺🇸
Excellent documentary. All my life I have loved avocados but did not know its origins until today. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the vid!
In Trinidad we have a variety of Avocado called Pollock.
It's extremely large and very tasty.
Very costly as well.
Avocados are plentiful in Asia, you would think it originated from there.
Awesome :) I've enjoyed your food history videos. I found your channel some time ago because of your history content, but I'm very glad to hear you'll be making more of these kinds of videos.
I remember avocados getting more popular in the 1970's and by the 90s I bought them regularly. They are so plentiful and cheap these days in comparison! I still grow the pits for a lark, they are pretty plants!
I remember a children's book from my childhood (the 90's) called "The Avocado Pear Baby", something along those lines.
Come to Finland, Avocados are SO expensive here, as are my.belobed dragon fruits 😭. We also grow the seeds, I also name my Avocado plants. Hehe
I would love to try an avocado harvested ripe. The only avocados we have in europe are harvested way before they are ripe and are expensive.
**shakes non-existent partner next to me at the shoulder** I am a millennial and he made a vid about my fruit! So relatable!
In the Nahuatl language the word for avocado *ahuacalt* is the same as the word for testicles
The name avocado comes from the word for testicle! I had an avocado tree that gave 100 K of fruit a year. They were smooth skinned and the size of a nerf football. Far superior to the Haas in flavor and the flesh was eatable even when it was ripe to mushy. The only advantage of the Haas is it handles shipping better. Viva Mexico!
In Italian and probably Spanish and Portuguese the word "avocado" is very similar to the word for "lawyer" and in English the word 'advocate" is also related and before i found out it meant "testicle" in the Aztec language (I think) I thought it meant "lawyer."
@@kaloarepo288 Avogado is lawyer in Spanish, although I agree some have more avocados!
Avocados are very popular in certain parts of Africa too they call them pears also
Avocado is a perfect healthy snack
Not gonna mention that auacatl (Aztec word for avocado) means testicle?
In the southern part of South America are called PALTAS
The description at 4:30 sounds more like a description of canistel than avocado
Chileans love avocados and have for a while, and we're getting to the chilean fiestas patrias. I feel somehow this video is related.
Yeah but you guys call it palta, aguacate gang for life
@@LUISga55555 Palta is a much shorter and easier to say word.
@@LUISga55555 Argentinean got them that name.
@@Altrantis sounds like a joke to me
Yea but avocado is Mexican so the original name is aguacate you can name it w.e the hell you want that’s not what it is
I remember going to the grocery store in the seventies and remember that they were called "alligator pears" back then. My mother would make "cheese crisps" which in the 80's became more popularly known as quesadillas. We put the alligator pears on them. This was in California. Interestingly the other names for the fruit mentioned in the video (aguacate and avocado) mean water bark and testicles, respectively.
Cool. Will October feature the pumpkin?
In San Jose Ca. We had a avocado tree in back on the fence line and it shaded two backyards it is so big and had Hundereds of egg sized avocados, this in in ithe old mission area of town 🤗
WOW how neat
Yay for History of Food! I'm excited for this series!
Have you considered attempting a collaboration with another channel that deals in historic food/cooking? *Tasting History* and *Townsends* are a couple that come to mind. Perhaps you could document the history of a particular food/ingredient, then they could highlight a recipe that incorporates that ingredient?
That sounds like something I would be interested in doing, I might reach out to them some time next year.
Usually I don't comment on anyone's video but your content is superb so I am commenting on your video. Wow this video is fantastic. Every line is a point. Your channel deserve more subscriber. I regularly watch your videos from 6 years. As a old subscriber I want a help from you that please make a video on skanderbeg because I realised that only you can describe it nicely. As I know you from the old days, I think you will definitely make a video on this topic
Up here in Perú we call Avocado "palta" ❤️ greetings from the Northern Peruvian Amazon Jungle 🌴🌴🌴
Avocado 🥑 =aguacate= (testicles)
In spanish you can also call them "Aguacate" and also in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay "Palta"
Avocado is native to Mexico and Guatemala. It’s a Mayan word. So I’ll keep using the original word.
@@MiloSatori The original word comes from Nahuatl (Aztec language) and it is: āhuacatl
Yes I love Food History. Could you do one sugar? How did they figure it out from cane sugar to sugar beats, then to Corn. How about Lou Han, Monk Fruit, Stevia, The whole sugar thing.
These really are difficult to grow. I've tried numerous times lol 🥑🥑🥑
I have a huge one in my backyard
Not really... Dry seed,, put in a pot of good soil n water ocasionally.. Its that easy.. Do like 4 tho.. Jus in case
Avocados on good street tacos are the best
I enjoyed your video so much I never knew that Alligator Apple was Acacado WOW
Viva mexico
I saw many in the Philippines when I was there in 2016. I want to eat some to see if they are as good as Mexican Hass. I do not like Peruvian. I may start a plantation as a legacy for my wife in her Pinoy hometown.