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Afraid you have nothing on Australians affair with Avocado. https://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/10/17/i-stopped-eating-smashed-avocado-and-now-i-own-cas
by beilabs 9y ago
Afraid you have nothing on Australians affair with Avocado.
https://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/10/17/i-stopped-eating-smashed-avocado-and-now-i-own-castle https://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/10/17/i-stopped-e...
It's a staple of the Australian diet, fairly certain it's one of the 5 fruits a day over there adorned on the walls of schools across the country. Seriously though, I've seen Avocado go for $6 a piece.....those were hard times.
- neosavvy 9y agoYeah at least it's not the great lime shortage of 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/upshot/why-everyones-talking-about-the-great-lime-shortage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/upshot/why-everyones-talk...
- twblalock 9y agoDuring the great lime shortage I continued to get a great deal on limes from 99 Ranch. The whole thing was a total joke.
- azinman2 9y agoThe Chinese community has their own sub-market: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-crazy-cheap-in-chinatown-1466762400 https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-c...
- natecavanaugh 9y agoThere are 99 ranch's in Australia?! I don't know why, but I love that. Even in the US, it's one of the best places to get produce.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoIf you think those prices are bad, don't go to New Zealand. I have no idea why, but limes are extortionately expensive in New Zealand, even for imported goods. They're currently NZ$35 per kg (over US$10 per lb). It's standard to get a slice of lemon in your Corona (which are also extortionately expensive in NZ)
- lostlogin 9y agoOr grow them. They fruit twice a year as far as I can tell and they keep for ages. I planted a hedge of them and give away supermarket bags full regularly. Most things taste better with some lime juice. They require zero care and at the current 35+ degrees Celsius, are borderline a requirement for living.
- mmjaa 9y agoOne doesn't just "grow things" in New Zealand.
- masklinn 9y ago> Or grow them. NZ prisons might be better than US's but that's not saying much.
- pjc50 9y agoSomeone's going to have to explain the lime police to those of us how aren't New Zealanders and have no idea what's going on here.
- masklinn 9y agoOh it's not a "lime police", NZ has nothing against limes specifically, there is no special treatment. It's just gardens in general which are illegal (without a license, obviously) https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/2nem47/can_you_have_a_garden_in_new_zealand/ https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/2nem47/can_you_... If limes (or anything else, like grass, or strawberries, or potatoes, or mint, ...) happen to grow on your property it's fine and you can collect them, but if you tend to them or there's evidence you planted them it's gardening, and the penalties can be steep. And police don't look kindly on non-native tasty edibles[0] which "just happen" to grow on the properties of unlicensed owners, as often as not the owner is assumed at fault and fined (though of course the harshest penalties like prison require positive evidence of guilt). [0] and NZ has very few native or pre-european plant edibles at all, let alone tasty ones: https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/plants-edible-native https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/plants-edible-native
- madeofpalk 9y agoI still remember my mum and grandparents talking and complaining about the absurd prices of bananas in... 2007?
- girvo 9y agoA cyclone destroyed quite lot of banana plantations in Queensland, which caused banana prices to shoot up to $12/kg
- petecox 9y agoI never understood the "smashed-avo" obsession but they're great in a vegemite and cheese toastie.
- wmil 9y agoAvocado is a high fat fruit. So for vegans or people on low fat diets they're especially delicious.
- mistermann 9y agoAnd it's great if you're on a high fat diet, you can eat all the avocados you want! I hadn't even ever tried one before.
- magic_beans 9y agoWhere on earth are you from that you've never tried an avocado!?
- mistermann 9y agolol, Canada. I've always seen them, but they just look gross peel on or off. Little did I know, they're delicious.
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- mc32 9y agoAnd at least the affair is with the avocado itself and not the color as it had been in the UK[1]... Of course now, an avocado bathroom will cost you 5-8000 pounds in resale value, so better spruce up the 70s chic before listing[2]. On the other hand, it apparently is making a retro comeback. [1http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/interiors/bathroom/avocado http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/interiors/bathroom/avocado [2]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4282662/Avocado-bathroom-flush-away-5k-house-price.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4282662/Avocado-bath...
- divanvisagie 9y agoStraddling the line of off topic
- dang 9y agoI'm sorry you got downvoted like that, but there are different flavors of offtopicness on HN and some of them are quite welcome. Whimsical tangents, particularly, that veer off in some unpredictable direction, can be quite good for intellectual curiosity, which is the main value of this site. The kind of offtopic discussions we really want to avoid are the generic and predictable ones. This includes vapid comments and ideological/political flames.
- triggercut 9y agoThose following along in other countries should also know that, amongst younger people, an Avocado is a typical house warming gift to friends who have recently purchased a house. Which, when you stop and think about it makes even less sense that the original proposition.
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- madeofpalk 9y ago> amongst younger people > recently purchased a house Doesn't match up.
- gambiting 9y agoYou realize that a lot of people don't live in hyper-expensive cities and purchasing a house even in your early 20s is not a huge deal? Here in North East of UK you only need about 10k for a deposit for a new house, it's hardly impossible to save that much if you have a job. London, sure - it's almost impossible. But not everyone lives in London.
- madeofpalk 9y agoI was replying to a (tongue in cheek?) comment about young people, avocados culture, and Australian home ownership. The assumption was this was specifically referring to Sydney and Melbourne.
- miguelrochefort 9y agoThey likely never had avocados before (which is how they could afford to buy a house).
- kaybe 9y agoWhat would the original proposition be? Here (Germany) it is a loaf of bread and some salt I think; is it the same?
- exodust 9y agoI saw them recently at South Melbourne market for "$7.99 each", the most I've ever seen them. (AU$8 = US$6.46 each).
- aakash58 9y agoThere's a growing interest in Nepal as well!