How do you feel about avocados?
 

Well? Like 'em? Don't like 'em? You'll eat them, but only because they are there?

Take the poll. Post a comment. Or not.

I'm OK with guacamole, but I find avocados in their original form too bland and slimy.

I love guacamole. I love avocado on a turkey sammich with sprouts.

I can't stand to eat them in their natural state, unaccompanied by other foods. I agree - too slimy - it's all in the texture.

"dislike" is a rather mild term for the loathing I possess for the things.

I just had a premonition of deja vu ...

I love them in every form. And I make kick-ass guac.

i'm finding more limits to my newb status here......i cant vote on polls yet.

the stupid shit i get into. sigh.

oh. and i loooove the oddacatos. and jinx aint lyin. kick ass guac.

The texture of guacamole gets to me sometimes, but I actually like avocado all by itself, sliced and salted. I'd say I'm neutral.

In Chile, an avocado paste called "palta" is pretty much standard on any kind of sandwich you get. Standard hot dog there has only palta and mayo for toppings.

I love them, but somehow when I use them in meals at home they never come out nearly as well as in restaurants. Maybe I'm using subtly underripe ones and I just don't know it, or something.

I've found most guacamole to be fair to gross, but I did have some recently at one place that was awesome. I'd be curious to know what was in that recipe. Avocado slices, etc. are a bit too slimy to me. I wouldn't say I dislike them, but I'll usually pass on them if there is something else.

Avocados are distinctly better when you're sitting near a beach in Mexico.

An Xmas tradition in my wife's family is avocado and pink grapefruit slices served with poppyseed dressing. It's pretty good.

I make a killer guacamole -- sheet loads of garlic and lime juice ++hot sauce!

Only time I was ever grossed out by an avocado was when I stopped at a fruit stand and the proprietor was eating a halved avo with the pit hole filled with mayo - she was eating it with a spoon. Sooooo gross :yelsick:

I'm not a huge fan of plain avocados, but I like guacamole.

I have to admit, I'm a little surprised at how this poll is shaping up. I thought there would be more haters.

oh no, there's waaaay more 'cadolovers than haters. Like I said, we're in the minority, Glatt.

Seconded!
I once nearly wimped out of a detox diet on the first day because I had to drink a green shake that was avocado based. The whole time I was retching I had to say to myself, "Oh c'mon, you LIKE guacamole!"

I like avocados no matter how they're prepared, or if they're just sliced up in a salad.

I love them on a toasted sandwich with chicken, cheese and mayo.

Guacamole is good too. I never buy it though. I think bought stuff tastes like crap. I always make my own.

It's also good with seafood because the flavour is fairly mild.

When cooking with avo's you should always choose fruit that's half a day from fully ripe if you want it to keep shape. That's my only bit of advice. :)

In college, my buddy Sean and I would go down to the co-op on special occasions (i.e. when we had enough money for food and alcohol at the same time) and buy avocados and salt and eat them downtown. There's nothing more delicious than a good, ripe avocado.

Yes there is. Almost anything, in fact. I'd rather eat peyote (the MOST DISGUSTING tasting thing in the universe) than an avocado. :headshake

wait . . . maybe that's not a fair comparison . . . :)

I love avocado's.

I make an awesome Chicken n Avocado Pasta...different version for hot and the cold dish.

But they are a staple in my grocery shopping for salads, cooking, dips etc

Avocados are a staff of life -- and I was sure of that well before moving to Southern California, where you can hardly throw a rock without hitting an avocado picker.

If you're agile, that's a pretty fair way to get free avocados back.

Botanically, avocados are a fruit, but nutritionally they more resemble a nut, from their vegetable oil content.

Guacamole would find much favor with raw-food faddists. Granted, it would be less fun without its pepper, lime, and salt.

Something that de-slimes (I'd call them unctuous, not slimy) sliced avocados is to put them in chicken soup at the very end of cooking. Caldo Tlalpen~o is sort of Mexican Jewish Penicillin: a brothy chicken soup with lots of red pepper included with the other chicken-soup bits like onion, carrot slices and some potato, and it may be had with half an avocado sliced up into it. For my money, that's the way to have Tlalpeno. It's enriched. And with all those peppers, both dried red and sliced fresh green ones, it'll cure what ails ya.

There's a local restaurant that offers them in eggs Benedict. I should give it a try that way.

DucksNuts, could you post the recipe over in the recipe thread? That sounds fun.

Will do UG, the thing with my recipes...is they only exist in my head :)

I dont do quantities, but will figure it out for you

Look, one fine day I'll eat the 'cado with you 'cado lovers. Exacly how you feel it is represented best. And if I don't like it you pay my travel to the town limits :p

But for the present for me it's guacamole only.
And UG - Uriah Heep was not unctuous, that's all I'm saying.

'E was 'umble. A 'ole 'eep of 'umbleness.

Great. Listen, eyeball quantities sound like they'd do -- how much of your hand it would fill, or "such-&-such, to taste."

Y'know, one of these days I'm going to keep in mind that Google is my friend! :rolleyes: Caldo Tlalpeno recipe. The herbs noted are half the mix of Herbes de Provence... can I get a "Hmm Nummy Nummy?"

Tlalpeno out of cans -- perhaps useful if canned food is all you've got. I'd put herbs in like the first recipe has.

One with leftover turkey and chipotle peppers

One from some guy's blog. Like Herr Doktor Viktor von Fronkenshteen, he wrote how he did it.

Um... Soups Too Numerous To. Page of links; I didn't look, but there ought to be something there for everyone. Avocado Gazpacho... hmm.

Tried the first recipe for Caldo up there in my above post because I liked the herbs in it. Came out okay even without avocado slices -- I'd used all the 'cados making guacamole, so each serving got a dollop of leftover guac. That works too. This recipe definitely wants a nice rich broth for full effect; my broth was a little thinner than I liked. Either the two herbs marjoram and thyme, or else the full-on Herbes de Provence with or without bay leaves work well. If you don't have any chickpeas, try lima beans. Add them late in heating if they are frozen so they just get cooked to warm and stay bright green, very pretty. Canned limas can go in whenever. Drain these to keep the soup broth clear.

I don't think I've quite hit the definitive Caldo recipe for my tastes yet, but I'm close. I definitely got the pepper heat, using crushed red peppers, fresh jalapeno and a few grinds of cracked black peppercorns. It'll cure what ails.

I'll only eat avocados when it's in sushi. I don't even do guacamole.

I love fruits and vegetables. I was raised a vegetarian and can easily do without any animal products in my diet.

However...

There is one fruit that I cannot stand...the avocado.

I'm pretty sure it had to do with my mother introducing me to the thing when I was a child and her not knowing how to tell when one was ripe. So the one she gave us was wayyyy overripe (aka rotten) and she forced my sister and I to eat it anyway (this was typical of her). I have never tasted something so wretched and to this day, my stomach clenches at the sight or smell of one. And to tell you just how far this dislike extends...I refuse to have any object in my home that is 'avocado green' in color :vomit:

Stormie

Cloud I am. I do not like slimy cados.

"I would not, could not,
in the rain.
Not in the dark. Not on a train.
Not in a car. Not in a tree.
I do not like them, Sam, you see.
Not in a house. Not in a box.
Not with a mouse. Not with a fox.
I will not eat them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!"

Aw, Stormie. That truly sucks bhong-water.

Totally off thread, but this is the most important piece of "drug education" and is never taught in schools.

Do not drink the bhong water.

Virtually no psycho-active THC. Huge amounts of toxic crap. Very likely full of germs. Tastes #$%&ing terrible.

And you know this how Zen?

Well, the first three I learned by reading. The fourth point ... well ... I only got to be old* and wise ** by being young and stupid first.

* Not really.
** As if.

I see. Didn't the smell of it put you off? There's nothing in the world that would convince me to have a swig although I once knew a bloke who would empty out the water then dry the dregs in the bottom of the bong and resmoke it. He used to call it 'nummas'. I don't know how it's spelled, but that's how it sounded. Disgusting is what I thought.

Well, Zen, you're, um, on the right track. Anyway.

If I recall correctly (it's been a long time) the smell was off-putting, but in the interests of science we pressed ahead. (Note: we. Something odd happens when teenage males gather, they loose 10% of their IQ for every additional one present.)
The taste ... now that did put us off.
For once we learned quickly. The experiment was not repeated. On reflection that might be considered bad science. We have to get a large sample set. Damn, that means I've got 99 more glasses of bhong water to drink. :vomit:

They look funny. I won't eat them.

Actually, looking funny often leads me to want to try something, like star fruit, cherimoya, pomegranates, and raw sugar cane.

But not avacados. They're the wrong kind of funny.

Like they're funny, but not humorous.

Well, I have to say Zen, you don't come off as the sort of bloke that was a typical young bloke. Maybe it's because I can't see you still doing dopey stuff from where I'm sitting? ;)

I think avocados are cute! Even with the lumps!

That's what my husband says about my arse.

:D Speaking as a husband of twenty years' standing, ain't that what husbands are for? It just says he doesn't give a damn about the weathering of the years -- it's still you.

Green and lumpy? Is your real name Kermit?

Yeah, but it ain't easy, I bet.

UG...that's true. He tells me he loves me just the way I am every time I tell him I'm going to lose some weight, which is comforting to know.

HLJ, it has a few dimples, but it's not green. I'd be a bit worried if it were. lol

Ahhhh, hail damage, you gotta love it.

lol...it's not hail damage. It's ale damage. ;)

Possibly the most spectacular example of thread drift ever.
:lol:

Avocados ... drinking bhong water ... Ali's arse ....

Gotta say I drank bong water in my youth - Ugghh, thats a mistake you only make once!

I can't believe anyone would even consider it, let alone actually go through with it.

I don't think I've known anyone who's done it and owned up to it IRL and believe me, I'd known my share of pot heads.

most stoners did it by mistake at least once - I did it on a bet while all effed up

Funniest case of drinking the bhong water I've heard of was told to me by the drinker ... he and his mate were trying pot for the first time with the assistance of some more experienced smokers, who managed to convince them that it was "tradition" that the first time you smoked, you had to drink the water. :lol: bastards.

holy sh*t - thats great!

it just goes to show what shits men are to each other...in general of course.

Well, green, lumpy, and watertight.

Well, I got around to one of the local Eggs'n'Things restaurants -- where you get a Swedish pancake dusted with powdered sugar and a dab of lingonberry jam with every order -- and ordered the Eggs'n'Things Benedict, which most other restaurants' menus would call something like a California Benedict because it includes sliced avocado.

Good; they do real Hollandaise of course. Definitely salt the avocado bits to make them bloom on your palate.