Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!

[TechnoWeenie]

Apparently, I wasn't imagining things when I kept seeing the price of avacados going through the roof...

Demand has increased substantially, and the crop yield this year has been pretty shit, half of what it normally is, leading to higher prices of avocados.

CNN says the popularity of guacamole has a large part to play. The average wholesale case of avocados went from less than $35 in January to almost $85 today, higher than its ever been, and experts say it will go even higher..

Fuck. Now I need some guacomole...

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local ... 95182.html

[NWGunner]

They've been talking about this since May, after last years dry spell...

Glad you & CNN finally caught up

[NWGunner]

I DO like the 'Guacolypse' reference, though, nicely played

[jukk0u]

Avocado means "testicle".

Testicle-lypse. That's what Joshua has by the end of a busy Friday night.

[SporkBoy]

I do miss my old avocado tree ...

[Massivedesign]

We always have 'Cado in the kitchen when in season. We have seen the prices go up, but don't care. We love it.

[mcyclonegt]

Oranges will be next. If you like orange juice stock up on frozen concentrate.

[OhShoot!]

Avocado means "testicle".

Testicle-lypse. That's what Joshua has by the end of a busy Friday night.

My busy Friday night must have also contributed to your prolapsed colon no doubt.

[hkcavalier]

Oranges will be next. If you like orange juice stock up on frozen concentrate.

Just don't buy $100 million in orange juices futures on margin.

[OhShoot!]

Oranges will be next. If you like orange juice stock up on frozen concentrate.

Good point! The grapefruit and lime crops (key limes) out of Florida are huge also. Expect the citrus fruitolypse.

[Pablo]

I do miss my old avocado tree ...

I grew up with avocado trees in my yard. Parents thought it nuts that people bought avocados. My great uncle (James (Jim) Bacon, my grandma's brother) was a botanist who specialized in tissue culture of avocado trees in the early days. He was trying to make a more frost resistant tree. Which he did, but the fruit is not the oil richness we love from a Hass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgPf839K3WU

Not 1930's! There is the "Jim" and the "Bacon"


https://www.fourwindsgrowers.com/fruit- ... cados.html

[SporkBoy]

Jim Bacon not available for sale ...