Omelet wrote:
> In article > ,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> koko wrote:
>>> I bought a bag of avocados from a roadside stand last week. Now they
>>> are all ripening on me so I thought I'd make some guacamole.
>> Holy Guacamole is what I thought when I saw the price of avocados here
>> last week. They wee $1.69 apiece and they were so ripe and soft that
>> they wouldn't be good for anything other than guacamole.
>
> Hard to perfect ones have been $.50 each here now for the past couple of
> months. I bought 4 perfect ones yesterday for dad.


They are all imported here. I rarely see them for less than 89 cents each.