The PFAEG: Eradicating Avocados from Earth

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The discussion centers around the aversion to avocados, with participants expressing strong opinions about the fruit and its culinary uses. The scope includes personal preferences, culinary experiences, and humorous proposals for an "Avocado Eradication Group," alongside debates about the quality and availability of avocados in stores.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses a strong dislike for avocados, calling for their eradication and questioning their culinary value.
  • Another participant counters that avocados can be delicious when ripe, describing their taste as buttery and nutty.
  • Concerns are raised about the high prices and poor quality of avocados available in stores, with some participants sharing similar frustrations about finding ripe ones.
  • Several participants humorously propose expanding the eradication group to include other foods like beans, brussels sprouts, grapefruit, and lemons, with mixed reactions to these suggestions.
  • One participant mentions a recipe involving avocados, suggesting a way to enjoy them despite the negative sentiments expressed.
  • There are humorous exchanges about the absurdity of the thread and the nature of personal food preferences, with some participants questioning the relevance of the discussion.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally disagree on the value and taste of avocados, with some expressing strong dislike while others defend their culinary merits. The discussion remains unresolved with multiple competing views on the topic.

Contextual Notes

Participants express varying experiences with avocado quality, indicating that perceptions may depend on local availability and personal taste preferences. Some statements reflect subjective culinary experiences rather than objective assessments.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may be of interest to those who enjoy culinary debates, food preferences, or humorous takes on popular food items.

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Dear Avocado,

I hate you. You are a terrible fruit or vegetable or whatever the hell you are. You make perfectly good foods taste like air. Also, your children, guacamole, is another awful piece of food. I am requesting your species be eradicated from Earth at the earliest possible convenience. Nachos do not need you. I do not need you.

I am officially starting the Physics Forum Avocado Eradication Group, or PFAEG. Who would like to be my second in command?
 
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What's the point of this thread?
 


Noooooooooo!
 


Pengwuino said:
What's the point of this thread?
To point out tht Pengwuinos don't have taste buds?

I love avocado, but I can't justify the outrageous price except on special occasions. Grocers would rather let them rot than sell them for what they're worth. And that's another issue, most of them ARE rotting when you buy them, even if they don't seem soft, you get them home, cut them open and they're brown and stringy inside.
 


Feeling OK Peng ? Any undue stress you would like to share with us, I can buy the first post, the second made me wonder... or... are you just baiting a certain "Avacado" member...

Rhody... stands by with his popcorn, quietly watching...
 


As the supreme onion, I feel that I must eliminate all competitor fruits. Consider me part of of the PFAEG.

I propose that we also eliminate beans, brussels sprouts, grapefruit and lemons.

I am the supreme onion. You shall have no other vegetables before me.
 


micromass said:
I propose that we also eliminate beans, brussels sprouts, grapefruit and lemons.

Done.

Except beans, are you crazy?
 


micromass said:
I propose that we also eliminate beans, brussels sprouts, grapefruit and lemons.
Lemons are ok. The lemon flower is very pretty and the fruit is sweet, but the tree of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
 
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Mix into a bowl:
avocado
LOTS of lime juice
LOTS of cracked black pepper
soya sauce
toasted sesame seeds
salt

Stuff portions into a snack-sized baggie, seal.
Ram a plastic knife through the baggie lengthwise.
Freeze.

Avocadosicles!

ee-YUM!

Took one to work every day for a month. Stopped when I'd gained five pounds.
 
  • #12
if you eat too much avocado, you will be shaped like an avocado
 
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Pengwuino said:
Dear Avocado,

I hate you. You are a terrible fruit or vegetable or whatever the hell you are. You make perfectly good foods taste like air. Also, your children, guacamole, is another awful piece of food. I am requesting your species be eradicated from Earth at the earliest possible convenience. Nachos do not need you. I do not need you.

I am officially starting the Physics Forum Avocado Eradication Group, or PFAEG. Who would like to be my second in command?

How do you cook a penguin ? Penguin recipes ?

They are very fat, so a method that melts the fat off is better, like a roast. [They are great when stuffed with avocado.] The blood is very rich in oxygen so the meat turns an un-appetizing dark as it cooks. The breast can make decent steaks. For doing an [penguin-avocado] omelet, you need to remove some of the white of the egg otherwise it's not tasty enough; but the overall taste is the same than a normal omelet...
http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/PenguinFAQ.html
 
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micromass said:
Mathematicians and beans are bitter enemies for already a very long time. http://www.philosophicalmisadventures.com/?p=15
What about all the applied mathematicians who became bean counters?

I love avocado and guacamole, especially when the latter is freshly made, and complemented with a spicy salsa. :-p :biggrin:
 
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Evo said:
To point out tht Pengwuinos don't have taste buds?
Pengwuinos have taste buds. Like me, Penguinos don't have to pretend that we are thrilled by some avocado or zucchini concoction to try to make ordinary people pretend that cardboard covered with sauce and spices are wonderful dishes that taste great.

Give me green beans, tomato, garlic and spices of your choice and I will build a meal around it. Throw in tasteless crap like avocado and zucchini (or eggplant), and my meal will collapse. Fresh-picked avocado might be wonderful, but by the time it gets to NE, it is worthless.
 
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I have nothing against avocado.. but grapefruit?? What kind of sick joke is that?! yeck!
 
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Evo said:
To point out tht Pengwuinos don't have taste buds?

I love avocado, but I can't justify the outrageous price except on special occasions. Grocers would rather let them rot than sell them for what they're worth. And that's another issue, most of them ARE rotting when you buy them, even if they don't seem soft, you get them home, cut them open and they're brown and stringy inside.

I thought that was just a local problem. I LOVE avocado, but it's so hard to find a ripe one and not a green or rotting one. There's about one week a year that I can find good, ripe ones in the grocery stores here. Maybe Pengwuino just didn't get a good one. If they're ripe, they taste buttery and nutty...very very very yummy!
 
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Moonbear said:
I thought that was just a local problem. I LOVE avocado, but it's so hard to find a ripe one and not a green or rotting one. There's about one week a year that I can find good, ripe ones in the grocery stores here. Maybe Pengwuino just didn't get a good one. If they're ripe, they taste buttery and nutty...very very very yummy!

Wow! Break out the avocados and look who shows up.
 
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Pengwuino said:
Dear Avocado,

I hate you. You are a terrible fruit or vegetable or whatever the hell you are. You make perfectly good foods taste like air. Also, your children, guacamole, is another awful piece of food. I am requesting your species be eradicated from Earth at the earliest possible convenience. Nachos do not need you. I do not need you.

I am officially starting the Physics Forum Avocado Eradication Group, or PFAEG. Who would like to be my second in command?
I'm with you on this one but beware of https://www.physicsforums.com/member.php?u=215110".
 
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Pengwuino said:
What's the point of this thread?
That's what I was wondering. Shouldn't this be moved to the random thoughts thread, or maybe the food thread? Or better yet, just deleted? Who cares that you hate avocados? Are there any other foods that you don't like? Might as well get it all out.

My personal nonfavorite is mutilated yak gonads with gooyee sauce. But that's a whole other level of nastiness wrt which avocados seem relatively benign and somewhat tasty.
 
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Moonbear said:
I thought that was just a local problem. I LOVE avocado, but it's so hard to find a ripe one and not a green or rotting one. There's about one week a year that I can find good, ripe ones in the grocery stores here. Maybe Pengwuino just didn't get a good one. If they're ripe, they taste buttery and nutty...very very very yummy!
MOONBEAR! You are not here enough! The forum just isn't fun without you. :cry:
 
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Evo said:
MOONBEAR! You are not here enough! The forum just isn't fun without you. :cry:

Thanks for missing me. I just get really busy anymore. I thought I'd have more free time teaching than doing research, but boy was I wrong! At least with teaching, I spend that time around other people rather than having nobody but sheep to talk to all day. I'm sure you have fun without me, though. :wink:
 
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Moonbear said:
I'm sure you have fun without me, though. :wink:
No, actually we don't. :cry:
 
  • #25


Evo said:
No, actually we don't. :cry:
Can't you put your ban gun on stun to keep her around here for a while?
 
  • #26


dlgoff said:
Can't you put your ban gun on stun to keep her around here for a while?

Hey! Wait a minute...:smile: No...stop...:smile: I think she set it on tickle! :smile: :smile: STOP! :smile:
 
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Moonbear said:
Hey! Wait a minute...:smile: No...stop...:smile: I think she set it on tickle! :smile: :smile: STOP! :smile:
:smile::smile: Turn it off Evo, turn it off. Your gun has some side scatter.
 
  • #28
Ivan Seeking said:
http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/PenguinFAQ.html

GAH. My kind will not be persecuted!

turbo said:
Pengwuinos have taste buds. Like me, Penguinos don't have to pretend that we are thrilled by some avocado or zucchini concoction to try to make ordinary people pretend that cardboard covered with sauce and spices are wonderful dishes that taste great.

TRUTH.

wisvuze said:
I have nothing against avocado.. but grapefruit?? What kind of sick joke is that?! yeck!

MORE TRUTH.

Moonbear said:
I thought that was just a local problem. I LOVE avocado, but it's so hard to find a ripe one and not a green or rotting one. There's about one week a year that I can find good, ripe ones in the grocery stores here. Maybe Pengwuino just didn't get a good one. If they're ripe, they taste buttery and nutty...very very very yummy!

MOONBEAR! <3
 
  • #29
Everyone, get together and do the MOONBEAR STARE!

(stolen from the Care Bear Stare)

The Care Bears' ultimate weapon is the "Care Bear Stare," in which the collected Bears stand together and radiate light from their respective tummy symbols. These combine to form a ray of love and good cheer which could bring care and joy into the target's heart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Bears#Magic_spells
 
  • #30
Evo said:
Everyone, get together and do the MOONBEAR STARE!

:smile: *checks my belly for an emblem*
 

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