The RISE and FALL of Avocados
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- Today we’re going to be telling the very interesting story of how this little fruit took over a country, and how it might be speeding out of control...
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Can you please tell us the brand of that checkered flannel shirt?!
Okthat explains the unlisted video
Eh over rated
no wonder y intgze hates tomatoes 😮
An export issue? Does the Department of Defense think that avocado videos are weapons technology???
Me coming from a Mexican/Salvadoran house, avocados were kind of a stable for my house but year by year it's getting more expensive to the point that getting avocados are like a blue moon. I remember avocados being so affordable back in the early 2010's as kid.
*Staple :)
As a Mexican I can relate to your opinion, I agree
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Yeah, I remember my family stopped buying avocados somewhere in the 2010s. It wasn’t a cheap everyday fruit anymore. When I started working in the mid 10’s all I remember from the lunch break is the women complaining about the avocados every week. It’s a side dish for rice and beans (sliced) and we also used it as a spread in sandwiches.
used to eat avocados on their own as a kid, now i get excited when i have it in my food
Mexican here! The other types of avocadoes are SO GOOD! There's even one that you can eat without taking the skin off, like a peach!
Puebla avocados right?
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Love that! It'd be a lot more convenient and maybe less expensive to buy one huge avocado variety instead of three of the little Hass kinds that's or sure
yes, in Mexican neighborhoods, there's avocados that fall on the sidewalk from giant mature trees & the skin's softer than an apple/edible, not the hard skin import ones from Hass. 🙂
Aguacates criollos for the win! They're so fragrant and complex in flavor, so much better than Haas. Then again, Levi already explained they chose the Haas variety because it travels well, no other reason...
In Australia in the 30s, 40s and 50s there were avocado trees everywhere in people's yards. They used to call it poor man's butter because butter was too expensive so people just used avocados. They were just dropping off the trees. So they went from poor peoples food to rich foods.
In most cases if the poor benefit from something the rich will come in and exploit it for themselves.
@@secondchance6603EVERY GODDAMN TINE CIVILIZED MAN STEAL FROM NATURE IT FUKS HUMANITY AND ALL LIFE.
Not true.
They were hardly known or grown before the 70s in Australia.
@@night-heron954 Tell that to my 93yr old grandmother. She's still alive btw. I don't think she was a liar. Also we had a tree in our street in the 70s that was at least 15yrs old when we moved in.
@@night-heron954this man is correct. Until the recently developed cold tolerant avacado trees here in Australia at a very rough guess only about %5 of the population would have ever come in contact with them. Australians on the whole don’t live in the tropics.
I did my undergrad thesis on quinoa in 2013 (the year of the quinoa, by the way), and it is indeed wild. Not only did a lot of rookie farmers try growing quinoa (incurring a lot of the damage to the soil talked about in the video), but a lot of the "peruvian" quinoa on the market was (at the time, at least) from Bolivia. It was grown in Bolivia but packaged in Peru, so the label said "from Peru" on them. I'm not sure if it constituted a black market or just informal commerce, but there you are. Plus there were the usual nastiness from buyers skinning farmers of their produce - if you can't get your yields to market, you have to take what prices you can get, which is often a pretty poor deal. However, there are now programs in place to try to preserve the incredible number of varieties of quinoa - it doesn't just come in white, black, and red, plus natives to the Andes will use different kinds of quinoa for different recipes - check out Bioversity International for that.
Faaaaascinating! Maybe a video is in need! 🧐
I’d love to know more about quinoa. I’m not sure what that says about me, but hey!
@@pentacosttb2565samesies!
Super interesting Ms Quinoa thanks for posting!
Well technically if you are sponsored by a tomato company you wouldn't by sponsored by a vegetable but a fruit.
Well botanically, everyone is sponsored by fruit company 'cause fruit is the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds. Vegetables are excluded, because they aren't sweet, succulent or pulpy, such as...fruit in a traditional sense of the word.
Vegetables are a culinary social construct :) (I’m joking around but it’s true)
Nothing is a vegetable 🤯
Well you know what they say….
Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruits;
Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in your fruit salad 😂
@@SuperDancingmanateewisdom is knowing that everyone else also knows your fun fact about tomatoes
I'm 73. I've been familiar with avocadoes my entire life, but we ate a larger variety that was grown in Florida. I noticed that variety being crowded out by Hass in the 80s. Thank you for the video explaining what happened.
Me too, Patricia! I am a rare over-65 FL native and my Mom mixed our baby cereal with fresh avocado! It’s just a very old staple here - like corn in the midwest states. My CA friends don’t like the texture of our bigger variety, but I remind them ours are lower calorie (Ketoians - yes, they contain less healthy fat.)
I always prefere local florida types
I’m from Michoacán. Avocados are part of who I am. My only issue is how expensive they have become. You used to be able to buy a box of them for a price of one avocado toast today.
As a South African that grew up on the Eastern coast where avos were always grown I (38) grew up eating avo on toast, my Mom grew up eating avo on toast and my Gran (passed in 2015 at 85) grew up eating avo on toast. Not sure how it has only been a thing since 2013 from Gwyneth Paltrow since it has been a thing here since forever. 🤔 The USA shares a border with the country of origin and avo is seemingly bigger here in SA?
Lekker 😁 from TX
From haiti, avo on toast is a basic snack or lunch
Great to hear Avos are being grown in South Africa!
Yeah, Future Proof are showing their youth. Avocados have grown in popularity but have been available for much longer than this video seems to indicate. The Hass variety was patented in the US in 1935.
Oh yes .I'm from Nelspruit area my Mother from KwaZulu and my Wife from Transkei and Avacados grow all the way from the top of the Kruger Park right down to East London at least.
And it was a poor man's food but in the Supermarkets yhey are expensive and quality isn't garanteed
Personally, I hate it when a food or thing I like and have long used becomes super popular. It's like a dog breed becoming super popular - over/in breeding ruins the breed. I love avocado and hope that the same thing doesn't happen where suddenly, we find out that they have lost their nutritional value or children are being murdered over avocados, etc. I just want to eat my avocado in peace, thank you very much.
Sorry to be the bad news bear, but I'd recommend looking into the avacado cartel. iirc it's bigger (amd deadlier) than other mexican cartels 😬
@@Akanisen049even worse than the drug cartel?
@@triadwarfare Same guys, they diversified their investments unlike the Hass-only avocado industry.
Here in Brazil, we're #7 in world avocado production, our most common type of avocado is different from the one you guys have in North America. It's bigger (kinda the size of an American football's ball), the peel is very smooth and the pulp tastes sweeter. I have very fond memories of my dad making me avocado smoothie as a child, but my American friends thought of avocado smoothie as insane when I tried to explain the concept lol. Besides being sold on every grocery store and farmer's market, it's also very common to find our avocado growing on trees - in fact, once it fell from a tree right into my windshield and it scared the shit out of me.
I'm Brazilian but moved to Canada at an early age. My mom used to make a smoothie with it, it was a whole blender jar just for me. Chocolate, sugar, avocado and milk (If you use sweetener, less or no milk and hazelnuts you can make an incredibly good Nutella from it). Whenever an avocado fell from our tree we would hear a loud bang, that's how big they used to be. Back in Canada I learned there were many ways to use avocados, in salads, cooking recipes and of course, guacamole, the most famous of all, I guess. Avocados are ok but I don't remember us Brazilians going gaga for it. I guess that's the power of marketing.
In the Philippines, we also use avocados in our desserts - shakes, smoothies, pies etc. It is almost exclusively for fruit shakes and we always thought it’s kinda strange to include it in main dishes simply because it’s not what we’re used to 😂 Here, It’s like one of those fruits that don’t belong in main dishes kinda thing.
@@MegaGasek I think we don't go crazy for avocados in Brazil because they're basic for us, while they're exotic for North Americans. At least for me, avocados are just a regular part of my diet, like as bananas and apples
As a Mexican I recoiled at the thought of an avocado smoothie but now that you mention it uses a different avocado, I might try it. A Brazilian coworker mentioned it ages ago. I got over my distrust of sweet Asian dessert style beans so 🤔
That's kinda wild... I just found your channel maybe less than an hour or so ago. I watched the TEMU episode, (which is what made me Subscribe to the channel) and then your Vaping episode...
I just finished that one, and suddenly I notice that you'd uploaded "1 Minute Ago".
I dig the style and info you're bringing to the table here. You've def got a new sub! :D
That’s what happens to us all. I’ve been here for like a year and it started with like a HUGE video binge after first watching the Liquid Death video
Hey! Love to hear it, thanks for being a part of this channel 🥰🙏🏻
As a South Africa with relatives that live in Mpumalanga/Limpopo, my granny had an avocado tree and we ate it regularly even though I didn’t like it. I was also shocked during the craze because I just assumed everyone had access to them.
Yes,I ate avocado on toast as a child in the seventies already in South Africa.
Sawubona Mkhaya , yes that's true
How Avacados TOOK OVER Future Proof, making him post about them twice.
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and we'd post about them a third time too if it weren't for those meddling kids 👊
Would absolutely like to see a video on quinoa!
Sweeeeet, we'll do some diggin!
@@FutureProofTVI'm in Alberta and the Slimy animal agriculture industry is constantly trying to brain wash people into eating corpses and animal secretions. DISGUSTING EVIL ANIMAL SLAVERY EXPLOITATION
i just started to dig in the comments to see if anyone else had suggested Quinoa.
i didn't have to did far.
Definitely would make a good video, based on what little i know about the topic.
@@niagarawarrior9623Not much to know. It makes no sense to eat it if it's not domestic. Very expensive as well. It might work well for astronauts, but that's about it. There is UK based video on YT, they compare different crops.
@@FutureProofTV and rice
Great video. I would very much love to talk about quinoa next
YES!!
Heck yeah we'll get that research going
Look at pomegranates too! PomWonderful had a similarly intense marketing campaign and wiiiild levels of lobbying…like buying senators and actors level of lobbying! @@FutureProofTV
Chiming in for parts of the Caribbean here: we grew up calling them “pear” (because of the shape) and it’s definitely a food staple. It’s eaten with most dishes like curry chicken, brown stew chicken, curry goat etc. to help offset all the meat and rice.
Grew up absolutely loving it, even more so when I found out about all the health benefits.
I grew up in San Diego in the 1970's and 80's eating avocado on toast and sandwiches -- it was my dad's most frequent weekday breakfast -- so I was surprised when it started being called a millennial thing.
Same in South Africa during the seventies.
I loved you made a video about the amazingly tasty avocados (or Paltas as we call them in Chile). I was missing a bit on the environmental aspect of growing avocados (as it is usually part of your videos). Back in my home country (Chile), the extensive use of land and water in certain regions have driven whole communities in environmental crisis with lack of water (for human consumption) and loss of biodiversity just to produce enough avocado for international demand. I would have loved a sentence on this, but overall great video! ☺
This has already happened. Australians were eating avocados in the 60s, and they were ruinously expensive (my mum wouldn't let me taste the ones she bought for a dinner party, and my mum let me taste everything). The growers planted them like crazy, and 15 years later you could by a bag of them for $1 by the roadside.
Australians are still enjoying avocado toast.
In Mexico there's some people that even have grown guilt over eating avocado or the overconsumption/exploitation of it because of the involvement of cartels, in the same way people feel guilty of consuming certain types of 'medicinal plants'. For me it's always been a must in our meals since I was a kid and it surprises me how much American culture inflates certain stuff while in other places its 'status' remains the same. I worked at a vegan restaurant and people saw (and priced) avocado as if it was gold, but back in Mexico it's just as any other fruit in the market.
Where in Mexico did you get this info? Never heard something like this, so I'll type my take as someone who lives close to CDMX: Aguacate is a staple, most people will tell you they prefer not to eat meat than to go without it for a meal, and we feel guilty about it more because of how expensive it's become than because of cartels, that last one may be the case only where there are plantations (I may be completely mistaken but nowhere near the capital, EdoMex, Puebla, Tlaxcala and around have I heard anything like that), and as for it's price, it's usually double the price of any other fruit, take like $55 a kg of avocado against $30 for a big pineapple, though there may be times throughout the year it may be as cheap as tomatoes, and the only place where it is kind of like any other ingredient is at a restaurant where some dishes have some of it and don't rise the cost, not like you're gonna price it at double the price for a slice of avocado 😅, unless you ask for a side of guacamole, that one is expensive.
Again, I could be completely wrong or maybe I didn't understand your comment completely, no offense to you, just my take.
Wow, I bought a kilo of avocados yesterday in a grocery store in Australia for $4 (US$3.00)
Woollies Odd Bunch for any Aussies reading.
That’s not true why do we so this sh*t of lying? We get nothing from playing characters for gringos
How big is the avocados market? Here in Mexico are cartels dedicated to farmers extortion. They steal their crops, kills whoever talks about it and many times the authorities are colluded in this activities It's a sad situation for them 'cause is really delicious fruit and really cheap, about $1.50 - $2.50 USD per kilo. I like to eat it directly from the skin with a little of salt and a spoon.
I grew up in Texas so I grew up with avocados being made into guacamole and being sliced up and put on sandwiches and salad. And I remember when people didn't know what the green thing on my pastrami sandwich was. I have always bought the cheap small hass avocados so I spend only $0.50 per small avocado.
When I worked at Subway in 08-09, we started putting avocado on subs as an upcharge. We, as employees, were encouraged to upsell the hell out of those berries. At the end of my first month, I had by far the highest avocado sales of our team.
Ya know what I got for it?
Nothing. Now, as an adult, I'm kind of a quiet quitter, and I think that experience had a big influence on that.
There's my free avocado story that has almost nothing to do with this video.
The huge variety of non-Hass is grown in Florida and the Caribbean. They are common backyard trees in Miami often sold roadside as "aguacate dulce" due to their much sweeter taste than the stones imported from Mexico. Some varieties also get to be about the size of a football, so be careful walking underneath the trees during harvest time.
In my humble opinion, avocadoes have been around long enough now and are popular enough that I think they will stay around. Even if their popularity decreases, I can't see them fading into obscurity any time soon. While avocado toast might not be the staple cafe breakfast in 10 years, I can't see avocadoes disappearing from the shelves in stores
I find this very interesting about 2 years ago I came across a couple of people in my area that quit growing avocados because of the water consumption. I'm surprised that the numbers have not declined
I love this channel and would love for y’all to talk about the egg inflation of this year, esp given the recent news surrounding it
Lived in California in the 50's and 60's and people had avocados growing in their backyards. 😊
You gotta love the over-confidence of youtubers…. 😂
This reminded me of a similar "bananas are over!" video - 10 years ago.
Subscribed! Keep up the great work👍 Greetings from kevin 🇳🇱😁
I love the big round advocados that are basically double the size of the hass ones, they are so rich too, brought some seeds back from rio to the netherlands, but in the end didn't try planting them when i saw how much heat they needed, it just wouldn't work without a heated greenhouse here.
In other fascinating news, i had quinoa today, so not all is lost :).
Being from south Texas, I never knew folks were unfamiliar with avocados. They were just always there.
“Why you should feel bad about literally everything you like with Levi”
We should rename the channel tbh
Aah my old nemesis. The reason why I can't afford a house. The avocado.
Rip the version of this video with the funny audio
only real ones remember 😿😔💔
I feel like I've experimented enough in a grocery store to have known what avocados were. Guac, love it. But a straight pure avocado took me a lot longer to embrace. Now the prices make me stay away. Love quinoa (and couscous) and had thought it would replace rice. Nothing replaces rice.
This video made me check a Neglected and underutilized crop list and discovered one of my favourite fruits, Pomelo, is counted as one of them(atleast according to wikipedia)
Oooh, love me a pomelo. Any hints on how to choose good ones? I always seem to pick ones that aren't the best texture...
I mean if Wiki says it then it's gotta be right
I’d love to hear more about quinoa! I only learned of it in 2011 and I guess I didn’t really notice it dropped off.
We grew up eating Avocado. They are super cheap here in South Africa because they are so easy to grow in our gardens.
I get annoyed when people argue about whether something is a fruit or a vegetable. Those are not mutually exclusive categories. A fruit is a specific part of a plant (the part that bears the seed). A vegetable can be any part of a plant -- leaf, stem, fruit, flower, seed, root, whatnot.
There are more local growers in California now. A lot of newer groves started 5 years ago here at Pismo beach. And the old people have their own backyard trees. They set up little produce stands in their front yard and sell them 50 cents each. The Bacon smooth skin Avocados and Hass.
For farmers, this must feel like a kick in the avocados.
Good stuff. Like your channel 👍👍👍
I remember growing up in Taiwan, avocado milk was super popular. I don't remember anyone ever eating avocados any other way though, to me it had always been just associated with being blended with milk.
As a mexican who came to america as a baby and grew up eating avocado, I was very happy when they started serving them in more places.
When we lived in South Africa we always had lots of avocados. We had cows who ate the dropped ones and even our dogs ate them. I can just eat them out of the skin with a spoon and a little salt.❤❤❤❤
Salt and pepper.
They were so successful not because their advertising is unique, it’s that unlike other fad health foods, avocado tastes amazing and is neutral enough to fit with many other flavors for whatever cuisine you make
Avocados had a big boom in the 70s, as well. It was popular to sprout the toothpick suspended pit in a jar of water, lol.
True! Decor too - all those avocado coloured bathroom suites!
@@s-c.. lol
Lived in South Florida and had mango trees and had a colleague with a Florida Avocado tree and, when the season was in, we would trade bags of fruit...
If you want to start a conflict in latin America, ask how is called aguacate o palta.
A common thing here is take a hot dog and add mashed avocado and cubes of tomato.
For the change in the crops , i have family in the country side , and saw a lot of changes in the years for the hot new things to farm.
Not a huge avocado guy but I like it on toast, and guac is so awesome.
When you said "speeding out of control" I just imagine this avocado flying around bumping into stuff.
i’m from michoacan (mexico) we got some trees since i was a kid now for my and my family it’s a way of living so keep eating them, and for the people who want to know we don’t eat avocado that much it’s not like always at the table
I am Mexican, and I’ve always have avocados in my home. I can’t imagine living without them, cilantro, tomatoes, beans or corn.
A missed opportunity to reference Gwyneth Paltrow’s “scented” candles.
This video came out one minute ago for me! WOE!!!
I'm intrigued about the new subject on quinoa
me as well
I'd very much like to see a video about the impacts on growers and their communities when they scale up the growing of "superfoods", only to have that market bust eventually. It does seem that Peru and struggling farmers get the short end of the stick with this kind of market fluxuation.
I grew up in a small town in south Alabama. I worked at a local grocery store during high school.
One night after work a friend said, “you ever had guacamole?”
I said “no, never heard of it”
He bought us an avocado and lemon.
We mixed it together and added salt.
It was the best thing I’d ever tasted😬
(Year 1992)
My point? Us hillbillies didn’t know what an avocado was😂
I'm Mexican and lately avocados are getting cheaper or affordable, which is nice, but weird... The other day I wondered at the market if there's a hidden trick so I inspected the avocados meticulously ¬¬
I dont know anyone who likes avocado or avocado based foods. I think people "liked" it not for the taste, but for the trend. Once the trend died off, the few people who claimed they liked it, stopped.
Dude, I'm 41 and I remember being young young when my mom would make us guacamole and it was the absolute best thing in the whole world
Assuming you're the one in your accounts picture, there is NO WAY you're a day over 30.
I don't feel like avocados are going to go completely away in the US, but I do feel like it's something a lot of people are cutting out of their budgets with inflation of grocery prices. As people's grocery budgets get tight they run to the cheaper ultra processed foods. IMHO the opposite of what you should do. 1 avocado and a piece of chicken, is a cheap filling meal. 1 frozen dinner is only going to leave you more hungry.
Thank you for saying "açaí" the right way! 🙏 hahaha
Never been a fan of avocados & probably was well into adulthood before ever eating one, but I do LOVE guacamole. Guac likely accounts for 100% of my avo consumption while avo toast is just a weird thing to me.
Not a fan of quinoa either but I do enjoy learning how we as consumers get manipulated into buying things
exactly! Avocados taste like nasty oily grass, yuck. But gauc is the best! My favourite so far is with a toast, wild pacific salmon and mango. Delicious!
Avocados and quinoa are pretty good when you rewire your brain by telling yourself these foods are good for you and if you season them correctly
Growing up in LA in the 50s and 60s, everyone had an avocado tree or two on their property. We kids sometimes used them as "grenades'" when we played. That predates the purported date of first avocado consumption in North America. When avocados started appearing in stores in quantity, many buyers held out for the Haas variety. Why? Their flesh was smoother, more buttery, and less prone to root strands as they ripened. Rule of thumb: the rougher the skin texture, the more pleasing fruit's the texture and flavor. Growers twigged to that and concentrated on that variety.
Canadian here who moved to Hungary ten years ago.
I still meet numerous Hungarians who have never tasted avocados because its a fairly expensive fruit here. Plus its mostly from Izrael, i guess due tk the fact that Mexico is a bit far.
However, i must say this: having spent ten years in this country, the quality of the food is waaay higher than that in my home Canada. If i think about the poptarts and all those sugary l, low-quality food items that we used eat for a sunday morning treat, of course the avocado toast was something outstanding.
I guess eastern europeans dont miss the avocado, as long as they have their saurkraut plus managalitza lard.
Man i haven't thought about that "I can't believe you've done this" video in at least 10 years.
As a Chilean in a region with a 15 year drought, watching all remaining water given to avocado plantations I cannot wait for avocados to fall
Love that Malcom in the Middle episode.
Thank you for good video and please check your plant for bugs and rotting roots
you missed a very important point avocados USE A LOT OF WATER. LOTS OF WATER
Even though avocados have been more popular lately, they've been around supermarkets for all my life (I'm 39), unlike other trendy underutilized crops like goji and acai berries, quinoa etc. I guess I'm not as obsessed as others, but whenever they're in season and going for 50 cents apiece or so, I'll buy them at every trip to the grocery store. I know some here in the comments are soured on price, but I don't feel that price is terribly high for fresh fruits.
I always loved avocados. Used to buy them every time they showed up at the supermarket in the 90's, which was quite rare. Then one day they just always had them in stock.
I have been eating quinoa long before it became known as a super food. I just love it cooked in chicken broth and found out the hard way that you have to rinse the quinoa before cooking. I mix the cooked quinoa into everything. I would love to see the history on quinoa. Wasn't aware of its wild ride. As for avacados, I have been eating them all my life and I am 67. My mom loved them so we prepared them for our meals but she and I would end up eating them by themselves before we finished preparing the meal. No guac for us, we just ate them straight with a little salt and lots of pepper. Still eating them like that. When I saw the first avacado ad during the superbowl game I knew that meant trouble ahead. Yup! Prices starting going up pretty fast, darn it!
In the early eighties, here in Portland OR we had avocados, we also had Giant Alligator Pears from Florida. The Haas was huge compared to today's avocados. About 5 inches tall average and the Alligator Pears could be 9 inches tall and way fatter than the Haas. Now they are tiny stingy little hard green things. The Alligator has disappeared from our grocery stores. Pity I got introduced to them as a child when we lived in New Mexico. I was 9 in 1966 and my family loved guacamole ever since.
I grew up in Northern California and we always had avocados. I can remember cutting them open and eating them out of the skin with a spoon when I was a kid in the 80s.
Back in the '70s, kitchen stoves and fridges were made in 'Avocado' finishes. Very fashionable then, as Avocados were the new gourmet treat!
I add sliced avocado chunks to my omurice (omelette with ketchup or sauce on rice).
The creamy texture of avocado makes it taste more awesome than without it.
My mother was adding diced avocados to green tossed salads when I was growing up in the 70s. In Oklahoma, not California. And she wasn't much of a trendy person. She would save the seeds and put them in a little cup with water, with toothpicks holding them partially out of the water. They would grow a little bit, but she never got them to the point of growing new avocados.
As an adult, I mostly like using avocados for making guacamole, when they're not too expensive. So if the avocado market crashes, then they should be cheaper and I can afford to make guacamole more often, right?
It is a common occurrence that when something gains immense popularity, the demand for it surpasses the ability to produce it, leading to corruption. This corruption, in turn, leads to chaos and suffering, both for humans and the environment. Eventually, the issue becomes controversial and becomes an internet meme. This is a prime example of why we are unable to have nice things.
I grew up knowing about avocados because my parents were obsessed with them. I'm nearing 40 FYI. However, I grew up in OR so it's possible CA influences migrated up north.
You say they didn't exist as a gen z kid, but as gen x, my 1st grade teacher regularly ate avocados for lunch. Yes, that was the mid '70s, and no, I didn't live anywhere close to Mexico, unless you consider East Tennessee close.
Avocados became the moustaches of the 2010s
I am from Mexico, avocado has become very expensive in the last couple of years. There its also a problem with the Michoacán mafia, the charge the growers for the avocados of "protection"
Soooo true! Unfortunately.....
we've been having avocado smoothie/ smashed avocado with sugar and milk in philippines since i was a kid in late 80's. it was foreign concept to me to put avocado on toast and only saw that first time when internet became mainstream.
The rice choking got me gag so hard😂
My parents had a home when I was young that had a huge avocado tree, and I won’t lie, at the time I simply didn’t like it, years later, my parents sold the home, and I now love avocado. I regret with all my being on not taking advantage of having that tree at the time
The real issue I got is coffee shops not slicing a fresh avocado on my toast and using a prepackaged dip with who knows what in there. 😤
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What kind of a society is that??
I am looking forward to the quinoa episode.
Here in the uk, avacados are quite affordable, they are on the expensive side for fruit,
But its not like £6 a fruit lol
To be fair, that $7 million Superbowl ad is like, 3 avocados.
I am glad that I have avocado trees in my yard in Puerto Rico.
To be honest I can not wait to eat avocados at a lower price, even in Mexico they got too expensive
Ive been eating avocados since the 60's because there are quite a few of them planted in the back yards of a lot of my neighbors and one is in my back yard as of 2005 and I have never eaten avocado on toast. We have three species . . . Hass (at my house), Fuerte and Zutano at other's homes. Fuerte and Zutano ripen sooner but Hass can be harvested for a longer time period
I live in Eswatini in Southern Africa. I have seen the boom of Macadamia nuts, many farmers changed their land to Macadamia Trees. In the past 2 years the bust happened. Prices have dropped by 40%.
It takes 3 to 5 years until the tree produces, so many trees are still coming onto the market.
I still support the market because converting sugar cane land to Macadamia trees is better for the land although not good for the water
This is so interesting because I am a ghanain girl who grew up in sweden and avocados was just a part of my ghanaian culture. Like we always had avocados growing up and I guessed it as part of my parent's upbringing as when I visited Ghana it was just part of the cousine there. But now its too expensive for then to aways have it... and I am only 23
Thank you for this well-researched video!
Only wanted to add the socio-environmental costs of avocado monocultures as avocados consume huge amounts of waters leading to water scarcity in affected regions - the profit for few companies and its consumers causes detrimental and devastating consequences for local communities...
Its very hard to find quality avocados 🥑 these days
I grew up in Toronto and have been eating avocado for at least the last 40 years after my aunt, a stewardess (i.e., flight attendant) introduced my family to guacamole and we loved it.