On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:31:07 -1000, pure kona
> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:58:06 +0000 (UTC), (Charlotte L.
>Blackmer) wrote:
>
>>In article >, Cheri > wrote:
>>>"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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>>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:34:10 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
straweb.com...
>>>>>> Clueless AOL newbie Sheldon "Pussy" Katz lied:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most Hass avocados sold in CA are imported from Mexico.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's false and stupid. BTW, ignoramus, here in California (where the
>>>>>> weather has been *gorgeous* this last month) country of origin is always
>>>>>> available for groceries. Must suck to live where you do!
>>
>>>>>> Bob IDIOT
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes, it is false.
>>>>>
>>>>>Cheri IDIOT
>>>>
>>>> Typical Californians; UNEDUCATED BIGOTS.
>>>
>>> I buy Hass Avocados all the time, and they're grown in CA. Dunno where you
>>>buy yours,
>>
>>A couple of thousand miles away from California.
>>
>>> don't care. Personally, I don't buy produce from Mexico. Period.
>>
>>It's easy to do that when your grocer posts country of origin, as many of
>>the better ones do. Personally I seem to see more from Chile off-season.
>As I said once before,----I had to ask a friend (Ken Love) who knows
>everything about Hawaiian fruit and here is what he said about Calvo
>"The California PAC that keeps Hawaii's avocados from going
>anywhere!): They do to the active marketing in Calif. where they
>spend over $1.4 million per year to market Hass from Calif. Mexico
>and Chile -- According to the Mexican D of Ag, Calif growers own 68%
>of the Mex fields and some 42% of the Chilean fields. (This is what I
>was told 3 years ago) Calvo is only the marketing company not a type
>of avocado. -- There are 1411 types that were listed in a data base at
>UC Riverside, in CA.We have over 200 named types in Kona alone with
>hundreds of other seedlings and types on other islands."
>*********
>Here is an easy place to see lots of different Hawaiian avocados
>http://www.hawaiifruit.net/AVOVAR/index.html "
>
>The truth is the truth. Thank you Charlotte for letting me say it
>again.

Good web site, thanks. Californians are a very bigoted people, they
think they are the best in all things when in fact the only thing they
are good at is in being airheads. They think all the produce they buy
in their markets was grown in CA but they are wrong (as they are wrong
about everything), most is from somewhere else and most CA produce is
shipped elsewhere.