For our wedding reception (that we self-catered with a taco bar), we ordered a whole box of 100 avocados through our local school. Of course, we received them a

For our wedding reception (that we self-catered with a taco bar), we ordered a whole box of 100 avocados through our local school. Of course, we received them about 4 days ahead of time with the rest of the food, most of which would go bad if it sat around any longer. The avocados presented a problem: they wouldn't be ripe in time. After some asking around, we got the tip mentioned in this article, and we interspersed a dozen bananas in the box so we could JIT-compile some guacamole :) It was $4 to save the day!