"" wrote:

> I'm still trying to acclimate to the Tex-Mex eating style.
>
> But avocados have me puzzled.
> A spoonful of avocado tastes like
> a spoonful of lard.....
> Try as I may, there's no discernable flavor.
>
> Is this one of these totally neutral items
> that only supplies color and texture
> to the other ingredients ?
>
> Or am I one of the 10% that is missing
> the "avocado tastebuds" ?

I can take them or leave them. I am sure that if I lived in an
area where they were grown and had access to tree ripened
fruit I would appreciate them a lot more. I admit that I
developed a taste for them slowly, my first exposure being a
shrimp (or crab?) salad with avocado that I later learned was
much too hard and nutty tasting to be used for that salad.

I would also love to live some place where I could have things
like tree/plant ripened pineapple or mangoes. Maybe I will
just have to be content with the local seasonal fruits. My
neighbours grow strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, sweet
cherries, sour cherries, apricots, pears, peaches, rhubarb.
Maybe I am better off with access to that stuff fresh than to
risk it all for a few mangoes and avocados.