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Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 19 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Husband thinks son and I are odd because neither of us eat bananas or Marmite. I ate them as a child, but wasn't keen, which surprised my mother as they had been a real luxury when she was a child and virtually unobtainable during WWII which was still fresh in the minds of her generation.

 
Shan



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 19 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I like bananas and will eat marmite but I prefer Bovril. I don't think there are many fruits I don't enjoy.

 
sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 19 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Avocado

 
Shan



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 19 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I love avocado. We used to have an avocado tree in our garden in SA. Enormous avocados on it. Bloody dangerous standing under the tree!

 
Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I only had avocado once and have never had the urge to eat it again.

 
Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sgt.colon wrote:
Avocado


You people are insane.

(Avocado by itself isn't good, but on a tortilla chip it's almost impossible to have enough. Fifty times that if it's in guacamole form.)

 
sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Insane in the membrane!

Never tried guacamole, so I couldn't say. Some people have on toast over here Slim. :shudder:

 
Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Homemade guacamole with ripe avocados, on tortilla chips. Only then can you declare avocados good or not!

 
Shan



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Slim wrote:
Homemade guacamole with ripe avocados, on tortilla chips. Only then can you declare avocados good or not!

Absolutely!!!

I suspect part of the problem here is that people don't actually know the difference between a ripe avocado and an unripe one. Firstly, supermarkets store them in refrigerated sections, which alters the flavour and secondly, they sell them as ready to eat when they are clearly massively under-ripe. Vile.

 
Slim



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 10:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

They are not sold refrigerated here. Ours travel all the way across the country, but that may still be shorter than the journey yours require?

 
Shan



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It depends entirely where they have come from. They are also grown in Europe.

 
sgt.colon



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's more the texture than the flavour for me. It's just.......I can't find the words.

 
dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i feel your pain, not with avocados but the texture of an under cooked carrot is appalling.

a poor avocado is pretty disappointing but a good un is a delight

 
Shan



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sgt.colon wrote:
It's more the texture than the flavour for me. It's just.......I can't find the words.


The texture should be beautifully creamy.

 
gz



Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 19 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It is the same with any fruit picked too early in order to travel..it never develops the proper flavour

 
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