Comments on: Avocado

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:50:55 +0000

mexican, as far as I know, avocados are definitely seasonal in the Philippines, and as such, would not be available year-round.

By: mexican

mexican — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:58:17 +0000

Does anyone know where i can get a supply of avocados year round…. Please marketman, if you have any information, i would greatly appreciate it. Thank you

By: thelma

thelma — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:03:30 +0000

one day, our gardener showed up with a bucketful of bacon avocados. they are so huge with just a tiny seed and a with a thick flesh. they are far better than the fuerte and haas varieties.
when fully ripe, it has the consistency of butter and with no fibers whatsoever.

By: Maricel

Maricel — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:09:54 +0000

Seems like Carol is right. I was debating wether to buy the round or elongated avocados until I remembered her tip. It was really a lot better than the round ones I bought the previous week. It was less fibrous and the flesh was almost buttery.

By: dodi

dodi — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:33:15 +0000

Yap, the Aztecs seem to be apt with their name for the avocado! I could not imagine if we Visayans had named it first. Anyway, that’s another tree where we used to have a treehouse and we used to bring milk, sugar and crushed ice up with us and have our really, really fresh avocado milkshakes!

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:45:15 +0000

Here in Wellington NZ, my workmates could not understand why I am mixing milk & sugar with my avocado. They eat avocado with their toast or part of their vegge salads.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:00:36 +0000

Carol I have to say the elongated-ish ones from baguio were really good. Ed and mojito drinker, avocado shakes or mashed are the way I used to eat them as a kid too.

By: carol

carol — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:51:53 +0000

my late mother always said that the elongated avocados taste much better than the round ones. never knew the diff. ’cause we never bought the round variety :-)

By: mojitodrinker

mojitodrinker — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:43:07 +0000

when i was in the US, all my friends thought it was weird that filipinos take avocados with milk and sugar. all except one: a friend from sri lanka. turns out they take it that way there too…

By: eD

eD — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:41:25 +0000

We used to make avocado ice popsicles when were little — basically a mix of evap milk, sugar, water, and mashed avocado. Quenches your thirst during those sweltering summer days … kinda chewy to bite on too.

California avocados are plentiful here … they’re practically available all year long. And they seem to have much longer shelf-life compared to the ones we used to buy in Laguna.

Americans think it’s weird to make a milk shake with avocados :) … ‘a green-colored milk-shake? You gotta be kidding me.’ Hehe.

The local Goldilocks and Jollibee joints here offer them avocado shakes with some yummy tapioca pearls thrown in. Even some of them ‘Tapioca Express’ (chinese owned franchise) sell them nowadays …

‘Am not sure if pinoys back home have acquired taste for the guacamole dips though … might be too bland for Pinoy’s taste.