cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/46831588

Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong?

Avocado. I heard much about these fruits/berries/whatever. But I am a poor guy from a very poor and totally non-tropical country. So apples and carrots are the sweetest things around and apples become too expensive too.

Still I bought a few. Just out of curiosity. It tastes like... butter block. Internet says that it should be this way. So... Why people eat it? Maybe it is bad alone and\or raw, but after some preparation it is delicious?

Am I missing something?

Exactly my take.
Tried them once, have ignored them ever since.
Wife and daughter love them, though.

Awesome to use as a base for chocolate tortes. The fat content of avocado makes them extra creamy and smooth.

I have never eaten avocado by itself and enjoyed it, same as a tomato. Avocados are awesome as a topping like on toast an ingredient in something else like being the base for guacamole.

The answer is seasoning!

I either mash or dice it and add lime juice, a sprinkle of cumin, and chopped tomatoes. Salt the chopped tomatoes first. Life-changing.

I remember, years back, talking to some French guy who went to an American store in France with his girlfriend and tried Pop-Tarts, as he'd heard that a lot of Americans like them. He said "These are terrible! I can't understand why anyone would eat these!"

I asked him whether he'd toasted them.

Apparently --- I went and looked on the packaging --- at the time, they didn't actually tell you to toast them on the package. Just assumed that you know to do that via cultural diffusion or whatever. Looking on Amazon right now, they do apparently stick directions on the thing, so I assume that at some point, enough people ran into trouble with that that they fixed the issue.

Actually tried it on toast, wasn't fond of it.
Same with guacamole, just not my thing.
Perhaps in low amounts as secondary ingredient somewhere with lots of strong spices... But what would be the point?

Wife has something similar with raisins, which I totally love.
And I don't like poultry, which she favors, while I like pickled herring that she hates.

So we are in the lucky situation that neither of us needs to live in fear that the respective other may eat his/her favored stuff away. :-)

I've heard avacado tastes like clean dick.

Yeah, those are the best uses so they are definitely not your thing.

Controversial take, but on the rare occasions I have Pop Tarts I prefer them microwaved.

Yeah this is just accurate IMO. It can be nice to add richness but the people that eat half an avocado with a spoon are crazy.

eat half an avocado with a spoon

Meet my wife and daughter, who often do just exactly that! 😳

Avocado is awful, not sure who first ate one and thought it tasted good.

I don't want near or in anything - I can still taste it's awfullness no matter how little is used.

It tastes like mushy peat bog.

That's strange, they had toasting instructions on them in the 70's. Wonder why they'd remove them.

The answer is mash and dice, then discard, slice the tomatoes and eat them with a little salt.

I despise them - it tastes like mushy peat bog.

Makes me wonder if this is a cilantro problem.

I asked him whether he'd toasted them.

that barely helps, toasting "cardboard" doesn't taste much better

Makes me wonder if this is a cilantro problem.

If so, it is probably not correlated, as I like cilantro (and hate avocado).

This is also what I experience

By itself? Gross.

Mixed with onion tomato salt bacon lime? Perfect guacamole.

They’re a source of healthy fats and

• guacamole!!!!!
• good contrast in taste and texture on a salad
• similar role to sour cream on top of black bean soup or certain Tex-Mex foods
• yes, Avocado toast, but it’s the seasoning that has the flavor

I do wonder if pop tarts have been enshittified over the years. Over the last couple years I’ve tried them a few times, as a comfort food from my childhood. While I wasnt fooling myself about them being good, were they always this bad?

You have to get frosted, so it’s not all cardboard. I rarely bothered toasting - it’s an improvement to the jelly filling but then you burn your tongue. But it’s still all cardboard and the filling is generally flavorless. I mean I always liked “blueberry” because it never tasted like blueberries but I remember it as having some generic jelly taste and it really doesn’t. There was never much filling but did they cut it back? Did the jelly used to have actual fruit that is now just hfcs and food coloring?

Yes to all that.
And yes again to black bean soup and many, many other kinds of soups.
Also yes on tacos, quesadillas, sandwiches, etc.

Agreed.

I like cilantro but don't like avocado.

I also remember trying it for the first time and not understanding the hype or why it was so expensive. When I worked in a restaurant later on it finally made sense. I was on the line then and used it in sandwiches. Their description is dead on… I mostly treat it like plant butter. But I’ll eat it straight up now that I’ve developed a taste for it.

Yes, they have gone through multiple waves of enshitification over the decades. The ones you can buy now are a shadow of what they once were.

I like avocado. Raw, unseasoned by itself, it tastes good to me. Even better on toast or with something else.

Me and the girlfriend had them on BLTs we made the other day. Shits delicious.

They really are poor on flavour. They are an ingredient, not something to eat solo.

Smashed avo on toast with egg is the best breakfast ever - but just avo?

Such an American thing to do. Warning signs on everything, but can't be bothered to print the value on half their coins. Just force every child to memorize the values in school instead. There are tons of examples of this kind of thing if you look for them.