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Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:38 pm
by 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
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:42 pm
by NWGunner
They've been talking about this since May, after last years dry spell...
Glad you & CNN finally caught up

Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:43 pm
by NWGunner
I DO like the 'Guacolypse' reference, though, nicely played

Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:20 pm
by jukk0u
Avocado means "testicle".
Testicle-lypse. That's what Joshua has by the end of a busy Friday night.
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:43 pm
by SporkBoy
I do miss my old avocado tree ...
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:47 am
by 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.
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:51 am
by mcyclonegt
Oranges will be next. If you like orange juice stock up on frozen concentrate.
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:03 am
by OhShoot!
jukk0u wrote: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.

Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:08 am
by hkcavalier
mcyclonegt wrote: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.
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:13 am
by OhShoot!
mcyclonegt wrote: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.
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:20 am
by Pablo
SporkBoy wrote: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=bgPf839K3WUNot 1930's! There is the "Jim" and the "Bacon"
https://www.fourwindsgrowers.com/fruit- ... cados.html
Re: Avocadomageddon 2017! The guacacolypse!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 3:28 pm
by SporkBoy
Jim Bacon not available for sale ...