"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 9/13/2013 8:33 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:41:09 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
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>>> I haven't
>>> been buying avocados this year. The price of the avocados I see at
>>> Publix make me just keep on walking.
>>
>> The price is appalling: 4 for $5 last week. The claim on the sign is
>> "large" but they are quite small.
>>
> Yes, they're small. I used to buy Hass avocados for my mother. She loved
> them. Somehow I managed to choose them just perfectly ripe. I'm not
> expert about that. I was lucky.
>
> Which reminds me. Mom loved avocados so much she ordered a bikini (swim
> suit) for me when I was about sixteen. She saw an ad for [probably
> California] avocados in a "women's magazine". They had an order form for
> a swimsuit to promote avocados. She sent off for it. Weird but true.
>
> I didn't understand avocados when I was sixteen. I didn't taste an
> avocado until I was in my 30's. But Mom bought me an avocado bikini. LOL

Long ago 'avocado' bathroom suites were very popular Not with me I
hasten to add Problem was, many people couldn't say it properly and
called them 'advocado'
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