Yes, Barry!!! YES!!!! Let the hate flow through you! I keep a very special type of intense-but-petty distain in my heart _specifically for_ any recipe that produces an okay result but objectively makes its star ingredient worse than it would have been if you’d done nothing to it at all.
I would swap out the chili and use cilantro and plus it up with pickled onion and fresh tomato. Or you could use everything bagel seasoning and then plus it up with either ham or cold smoked salmon. Definitely needs some additional sliced avocado either way.
Would it be a plus up, or a minus down, replace the butter with a thin layer of mayo + lime on the bread, use sliced avacado, and finish with a little hot sauce? Basically the same, but more avacado forward
Considering the year that this recipe was published it might be worth consideration that at that time avocados were a "newer" item at grocers not catering to the Latin American and Mexican American populations. Haas didn't even see widespread production until 1915 and it wasn't until the 1950's and 1960's that national distribution was even happening. The 1980's really saw the introduction of avocado into American grocery stores, mostly in more densely populated areas with well developed produce distribution networks. Combine the "rarity" with the difficulty in shipping these delicate fruits intact to the consumer at the store I'm guessing that this was a "novelty" sandwich at the time of publication.
i think the same salad without any mayo could be good, just use the mushed avocado as a binder. i'll sometimes make chicken salad with avo instead of mayo 👍
Hello! I so enjoy your show. Isn’t it amazing how food fashion is so changeable? One quick note though. (I know you expected one.) It seems that adding heat is your everyday addition. Although you use a variety of chili sauces, there are other options.
Butter on sandwiches is still very common in Europe today. The perk of butter is that it doesn’t go rancid very fast and adds both moisture & filling fat to a sandwich. Anyone who makes homemade Mayo will tell you that it has a short shelf life. Like 3-4 days. Mayo became a thing in the US because of great advertising and the use of preservatives.
@@pavelow235 They had entered mainstream cooking, but they weren't ubiquitous yet. You can do a search and see the trend lines for things like popularity, or how much they appear in cookbooks, etc. I don't think any singular source is going to give a full picture of how popular/unpopular they were. That said, America had banned importing them from Mexico due to weevil concerns and that ban was only lifted in the late 1990s, which is a huge reason why they became so popular in the last 20 years.
Maybe it's against your rules, but plus it up with some slices of bacon, salted tomato, and toasted whole grain bread. Cuz that's not a sandwich, that's a condiment!
And yet it didn't get the trash-action-jump-cut! Barry should do a remix that is actually just making a decent avocado sandwich! Here's my "never fail" avocado-not-qucamole-sandwich suggestion: - BREAD: Whole grain. Like pepita seeded bread. Perhaps Killer Dave's seed bread. Definitely toasted! - AVOCADO: A Reed avocado if you can find it, otherwise a good ripe Hass. - DRESSING: Lime, coarse salt, pepper-pepper-pepper (a nod to YSAC!) and a drizzle of good olive oil - GREENS: I like microgreens, but arugula is also excellent - PROTEIN: I've had a fried egg on mine. Great on toasted seed bread - HEAT: To your discretion. You know what you like. I like green Tabasco myself. - Add-ons: thinly sliced pickled red onion. Maybe radish slaw? If you are in the chips for it, how about a salt-and-vinegar kettle chip? I'd pair this with a good pils or Mexican lager. Or a Pineapple-Mint Agua Fresca. This would be a great early summer sam jam!
Avocado can make mayo better as a condiment. But mayo does not make avocado better. Example: I love turkey sandwiches with mayo and avocado, because it is better than mayo alone.
Cilontro and lime sir. The only plus ups. Thanks Barry. 👍👍 Also, you seem a bit testy in this video. Are you finally tired of eating bad sandwiches? I wouldn't blame you. I sometimes wonder how you couldn't hate sandwiches at this point.
I feel like you were too charitable to this one. Mayonnaise and avocado on buttered bread sounds like something a doctor would prescribe to test someone's metabolism of fats.
Should've plussed it up with some avocado
My thought as well.
Came here to say this
My thought exactly. When I saw the title I figured it would be delicious. It’s pretty hard to mess up avacado.
exactly what I was thinking
Another plus up it to also put salted avocado slices on it as well.
Salted avocado is like. You have to salt and pepper your tomato. But your right that's great. But this was supposed to be some kind of salad.
It's "salad" like tuna salad is salad.
@@jacobuponthestone9093 yeah
@@jacobuponthestone9093 right. I'm saying leave it as is, then add avocado slices. His issue was the avacado was getting lost. Problem solved.
I was 100% expecting that.
I don't remember hearing both the wah-wah and the angelic music at the end of a video before. Nice touch.
"AAAAAHHHH" and "Bwa-bwa-bwa-bwaaah"? A confused sandwich, to be sure.
I wonder if they used a different type of avocado back then ? The Hass would fair much different than a other type of avocado
Thank you for defending the honor of avocado, Barry. Don't disrespect the avocado! 😅 🥑
Yes, Barry!!! YES!!!! Let the hate flow through you!
I keep a very special type of intense-but-petty distain in my heart _specifically for_ any recipe that produces an okay result but objectively makes its star ingredient worse than it would have been if you’d done nothing to it at all.
Hey man i haven't been on this channel for a while. Life got hard. But glad to see you're making great videos.
Omit the mayo and chili sauce, and I know it's too easy of a go to, but some bacon on there would be wonderful.
Bacon & Avocado 🤝
Yaaaaass!
Evil Sandwiches of History: we're going to plus this up with guacamole
Let's give it a go... I think we can evil this up...
A case of less is more. Less mayo and more avocado.
That seems to be an avocado sandwich designed by someone who doesn't like avocado.
I would plus up by adding avocado.
do we need a "minus down" option where you remake it but _remove_ ingredients?
I wonder if you could plus this up by just putting in more avocado therefore maybe it lessens the taste of the chili sauce and the mayo
I would swap out the chili and use cilantro and plus it up with pickled onion and fresh tomato. Or you could use everything bagel seasoning and then plus it up with either ham or cold smoked salmon. Definitely needs some additional sliced avocado either way.
Will miss you in New Orleans. Who figured snow would be the reason? Can still plus that up by coming back during snoball season!
I think some sliced ham would be a great addition to this!
I’ve never understood adding an egg to avocado toast either . The 2 flavors cancel each other out in my opinion but apparently people like it 🤔
Every once in a while, Barry has to go into hiding to get away from the paparazzi.
The entrance 😂
My better half is CRAZY about avocados!!! Just squash the avocado with a little vinegar and a touch of salt on toast.
Corn chips for some crunch!
Or crunchy bacon!
Yeah this one was crying out for some texture
Just the avocado, salt, pepper and lemon/lime juice is all that is needed. And I wouldn't mash the avocado either. Then maybe some Tabasco
Toasted bread would have worked better with the softness of the guac.
Perhaps they used the avocado just to make the filling look pastel green?
I suppose people who are not used to eating avocado might have the need to tame it by adding good old celery.
That side slide entrance tho.
Would it be a plus up, or a minus down, replace the butter with a thin layer of mayo + lime on the bread, use sliced avacado, and finish with a little hot sauce? Basically the same, but more avacado forward
That sandwich SCREAMS for bacon.
Yes, it most definitely needs more fat! 🤣
Considering the year that this recipe was published it might be worth consideration that at that time avocados were a "newer" item at grocers not catering to the Latin American and Mexican American populations. Haas didn't even see widespread production until 1915 and it wasn't until the 1950's and 1960's that national distribution was even happening. The 1980's really saw the introduction of avocado into American grocery stores, mostly in more densely populated areas with well developed produce distribution networks. Combine the "rarity" with the difficulty in shipping these delicate fruits intact to the consumer at the store I'm guessing that this was a "novelty" sandwich at the time of publication.
I'm a fan of anything that makes avocado not taste like the flavorless mush that it is.
My favorite way to eat avocado is to half, remove the seed, salt & pepper then fill the hole with a bunch of Tapatio. Grab a spoon and enjoy!
i think the same salad without any mayo could be good, just use the mushed avocado as a binder. i'll sometimes make chicken salad with avo instead of mayo 👍
I like avocado with a little good quality British brown sauce in the stone cavity. Use a teaspoon to eat it. Yum!
Never tried it as a sandwich.
"Avocado is so delicious..." instant upvote!
The slide is back! Whoop Whoop!
Hello! I so enjoy your show. Isn’t it amazing how food fashion is so changeable? One quick note though. (I know you expected one.) It seems that adding heat is your everyday addition. Although you use a variety of chili sauces, there are other options.
Can you pontificate a bit on the fascination with buttered bread back in the day?
Butter on sandwiches is still very common in Europe today. The perk of butter is that it doesn’t go rancid very fast and adds both moisture & filling fat to a sandwich. Anyone who makes homemade Mayo will tell you that it has a short shelf life. Like 3-4 days. Mayo became a thing in the US because of great advertising and the use of preservatives.
Butter acts as a barrier to keep the filling from sogging out the bread. Also, would handle lack of refrigeration (of the sandwich) better than mayo.
Avocado is a near-perfect food. All you need is salt , pepper, and a bit of lemon juice. Anything more and you are defeating the point of avocado.
Agree, unless you're making guacamole
Avocadoes might have been more expensive back then.
Also, would a similar sandwich with less mayo taste better?
This entire sandwich is a minus down.
The mayonnaise salad treatment works with most things. It is good to know it doesn't work as well with avocado.
Now the question is, would this work better with worse, less ripe avocado?
Very green
Plus it up by removing the mayo 😏
Does anyone know what the highest plus up has been?
It seems to me that in 1960s American cookery you could call anything 'salad' if you simply added mayonnaise to it.
So were avacados popular yet in 1964?
@@pavelow235 They had entered mainstream cooking, but they weren't ubiquitous yet. You can do a search and see the trend lines for things like popularity, or how much they appear in cookbooks, etc. I don't think any singular source is going to give a full picture of how popular/unpopular they were.
That said, America had banned importing them from Mexico due to weevil concerns and that ban was only lifted in the late 1990s, which is a huge reason why they became so popular in the last 20 years.
Maybe it's against your rules, but plus it up with some slices of bacon, salted tomato, and toasted whole grain bread.
Cuz that's not a sandwich, that's a condiment!
And yet it didn't get the trash-action-jump-cut! Barry should do a remix that is actually just making a decent avocado sandwich! Here's my "never fail" avocado-not-qucamole-sandwich suggestion:
- BREAD: Whole grain. Like pepita seeded bread. Perhaps Killer Dave's seed bread. Definitely toasted!
- AVOCADO: A Reed avocado if you can find it, otherwise a good ripe Hass.
- DRESSING: Lime, coarse salt, pepper-pepper-pepper (a nod to YSAC!) and a drizzle of good olive oil
- GREENS: I like microgreens, but arugula is also excellent
- PROTEIN: I've had a fried egg on mine. Great on toasted seed bread
- HEAT: To your discretion. You know what you like. I like green Tabasco myself.
- Add-ons: thinly sliced pickled red onion. Maybe radish slaw?
If you are in the chips for it, how about a salt-and-vinegar kettle chip?
I'd pair this with a good pils or Mexican lager. Or a Pineapple-Mint Agua Fresca.
This would be a great early summer sam jam!
All good, needs bacon. 🥓🥓
I love to make sandwiches that start with subbing avocado for mayo, but this wasn't that. Yuck!
Butter AND mayo? This is just mean.
So did eating these influence appliance-makers to make the avocado-colored appliances a few years later?
Next time you eat pho at you favorite restaurant take a bottle of tapatio an spice up your pho with it
👍🏻
I have a nice avocado and I am not wasting it like that.
For those who didn't get the sarcasm: yes, avocados have about 20-30 grams of fat.
Double or triple the avacado, and try a remake, maybe add a protein like ham, or "mexican" ground beef, chorizo, bacon,...
1. I'm shocked it didn't go into the garbage can.
2. The scores were too high.
Honestly I enjoy a tiny bit of mayo in my avocado
Shame. Maybe the PU should have been slices of avocado.
Mayonnaise and avos? NO! 😆
Avocado can make mayo better as a condiment. But mayo does not make avocado better. Example: I love turkey sandwiches with mayo and avocado, because it is better than mayo alone.
Cilontro and lime sir. The only plus ups. Thanks Barry. 👍👍 Also, you seem a bit testy in this video. Are you finally tired of eating bad sandwiches? I wouldn't blame you. I sometimes wonder how you couldn't hate sandwiches at this point.
The disrespect!!!
Avocado toast it isn’t…
Needs bacon, lol.
That's just almost guacamole.
And yet guacamoles spread thin on bread would make a better sandwich
Wow the original recipe would probably be great without the butter or mayo. lol
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As a millennial I’m deeply disappointed by such a statement 😔
Is this the first dud of 2025? (Plain, not plussed up.)
I feel like you were too charitable to this one. Mayonnaise and avocado on buttered bread sounds like something a doctor would prescribe to test someone's metabolism of fats.
I could eat it every day.
haven't got to the score yet, but judging from those ingredients i'm guessing 7.5
edit: WOAH was i wrong
Isn't it just White Guy guacamole?😂
BoooooRiiiiinnngggg sandwich.
Avocado is full of monounsaturated fat
That would be the joke, Ted.
Ya plus this up by getting rid of the mayo. WHY?