This is the last avocado from Mexico that I will ever buy. This is one too many rotten Mexican avocados that I have bought over the years, and I’m vowing to myself that I will never pay another dollar for one of these carelessly harvested and handled pieces of fruit.
Whether the problem is with the harvesting, refrigeration, transportation, ethylene gassing, or retail stocking, I don’t care. And even though deaf California farmers and packinghouses refuse to grow and handle anything but Hass such that our only choice in stores is this junk Mexican fruit this time of year (we should be able to buy good Fuerte, Pinkerton, and more from California growers here in February), I would rather go without avocados than pay another dime for this spoiled stuff.
I can make it: My Reed and Lamb fruit will be ready in summer, and from then on I should never be without good avocados on at least one of my other trees.
I feel bad, however, for those without avocado trees in their yard. They’re at the mercy of an industry that does them no favors.
I’m with you Greg. I just saw another commercial pushing avocados from Mexico. I’ve wasted lots of money over the years on Mexican avocados not to mention the disappointment. I just threw one away and gave the other uncut one away because I know it would be bruised and brown inside as well. I love my California avocados, there’s nothing like them. I have to wait until my local connection harvests his.
It’s so hard to wait, right? But the difference in quality from one off your tree or someone’s tree who carefully handles the fruit is night and day. It’s worth the wait.
I’m with you 100%Greg.
About 6 months ago I was so mad, I went over to Vallarta Supermarket’s headquarters here in Sylmar to complain about their semi rotten avocados.
Their answer was to “take them back and get a refund”.
Yeah, I love that answer. As if we all have the time to take back all of the rotten avocados. And what about the inconvenience of not having the quality avocados we thought we bought and should have been eating with our meal?
I saw some Mexican avocados on sale, caved in, and bought two. One had a grey area and a full half of the other one was a grey mess. In other words, I paid twice the price for the salvageable flesh. Some sale!
Rather than suffer in silence, maybe we should organize a “Take Back Your Rotten Mexican Avocados” campaign, replete with buttons that say “I return rotten Mexican avocados” ?
Sung to the tune of their commercial’s jingle… “Rottencados from Mexico!”