Something like 20,000 acres of avocado trees have burned up.

Steve

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:
>
>> Something like 20,000 acres of avocado trees have burned up.
>
> That's not the way I read this article:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/bonds...22540420071024
>
> Whiole San Diego may have 1/3rd of the avocado groves in CA
> (20,000 acres), there's nothing about *all* of them burning up.
> They never said what percentage of them have been destroyed.
> They just said "thousands of acres have been destroyed".
>
> -sw

Escondido, California grew 78% of America's avocado crop. Your guacamole
will be a little more expensive tomorrow.

Mitch

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message

> That's not the way I read this article:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/bonds...22540420071024
>
> Whiole San Diego may have 1/3rd of the avocado groves in CA
> (20,000 acres), there's nothing about *all* of them burning up.
> They never said what percentage of them have been destroyed.
> They just said "thousands of acres have been destroyed".

Yeah, the Chron may have amplified the facts he

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...n112008D86.DTL

Steve

On Oct 24, 4:47 pm, "Mitch Scherer" > wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:
>
> >> Something like 20,000 acres of avocado trees have burned up.
>
> > That's not the way I read this article:
> >http://www.reuters.com/article/bonds...22540420071024
>
> > Whiole San Diego may have 1/3rd of the avocado groves in CA
> > (20,000 acres), there's nothing about *all* of them burning up.
> > They never said what percentage of them have been destroyed.
> > They just said "thousands of acres have been destroyed".
>
> > -sw
>
> Escondido, California grew 78% of America's avocado crop. Your guacamole
> will be a little more expensive tomorrow.

I'm going to be Mr. Happy Avocado Guy tomorrow:
http://www.sappingtonfarmersmkt.com/weeklyads.htm
They also have $3.99 sirloins and a coupon for $10 off a $50 purchase.
http://www.sappingtonfarmersmkt.com/coupons.htm
>
> Mitch

--Bryan

Sqwertz > wrote:

>I did read the correct article. The most conservative article is
>always the most accurate.

Not necessarily the case in a progressing disaster, wherein
one article could correctly report 5,000 acres burned and a
slightly more recent article could report, also correctly,
20,000 acres burned.

S.

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:47:43 -0700, Mitch Scherer wrote:
>
>> Escondido, California grew 78% of America's avocado crop.
>
> When, the year 1870? I don't know how you get 78% from:
>
> "California is the top avocado producer with about 84 percent of
> the nation's production and San Diego County has a third to half
> of the state's 60,000 avocado acres."
>
> Which translates to 27-42% of the U.S-grown avocados. Even less
> than that if you want to single out Escondido, CA from the rest
> of San Diego County.
>
> -sw

A gross exaggeration then.

Oh pshaw, on Wed 24 Oct 2007 08:25:49p, rrb meant to say...

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:31:14 +0000, Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:03:45 GMT, rrb wrote:
>>
>>> It would help if you read the right article - see below.
>>
>> Oh, BTW: I notice you didn't own up to writing this ugly, troll post a
>> few days ago.
>>
>> Now go waddle away like all the other would-be trolls. You're nothing
>> but trash.
>>
>> -sw
>>
>
> FOAD. No, I didn't and I won't. I don't owe anyone an explanation
> especially a total piece of shit like you. At least I don't drag posts
> from another totally unrelated group into this one. Now who's the troll
> asshole? Talk about a piece of trash you totally resemble that remark.
> What exactly did that post have to do with this group? Nothing that's
> what. Perhaps you should take your own advice pull up your diaper, and go
> back where immature ****ing idiots belong. Like the nearest sanitarium.
>
> rrb
>
>

<plonk>

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC),
(Steve Pope) wrote:

>Something like 20,000 acres of avocado trees have burned up.
>
>Steve

Kiss California avocados goodbye, y'all. Last year was a freeze (or
something) that decimated the crop, now it's fire. I love a good
farmer's sob story. Plant a pit or two in your back yard if you want
avocados in the future. Think guacomole!

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<sf> wrote in message ...
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC),
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>>Something like 20,000 acres of avocado trees have burned up.
>>
>>Steve
>
> Kiss California avocados goodbye, y'all. Last year was a freeze (or
> something) that decimated the crop, now it's fire. I love a good
> farmer's sob story. Plant a pit or two in your back yard if you want
> avocados in the future. Think guacomole!
>

Most Haas/Hass avocados I see now are from Chile.
Not as good as California's, but better than the ones from Florida.

But then again, that's just me -- my first avocado was a California avocado
from a friend's tree.
I was brought a sack full -- but didn't 'fully' appreciate them at the time.
Dee Dee

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:14:04 -0400, "Dee Dee" >
wrote:

>Most Haas/Hass avocados I see now are from Chile.

Living in California, I don't deal with foreign avocados very often.
LOL

>Not as good as California's, but better than the ones from Florida.
>
To tell you the truth, I've never had a Florida Haas.... but the
Florida avocados I've eaten were flovorless. It's absolutly criminal
they're allowed to sell that swill!

>But then again, that's just me -- my first avocado was a California avocado
>from a friend's tree.
>I was brought a sack full -- but didn't 'fully' appreciate them at the time.

Lemme tell you, I took to California Hass like a magnet to iron and
there's no turning back for me.



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Oh pshaw, on Thu 25 Oct 2007 02:59:59a, Sqwertz meant to say...

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:27:42 -0700, sf wrote:
>
>> To tell you the truth, I've never had a Florida Haas....
>
> Florida Hass (note the correct spelling) is an oxymoron. Florida
> grows a completely different strain of avocado - 1/2 the fat and
> calories of a Hass avocado (which means they suck). A light
> green, smooth skin - usually 2-3 times the weight of a medium
> Hass.
>
> -sw
>

And very wet! Ugh!

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Wayne Boatwright said...

> And very wet! Ugh!


During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this is the
mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless. I can't
picture wet, as in watery? I forget. I only bought one and that was that. We
laughed at them with a measure of sadness as that's all we found at Publix
supermarket.

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> Wayne Boatwright said...
>
>> And very wet! Ugh!
>
>
> During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this is
> the
> mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless. I
> can't
> picture wet, as in watery? I forget. I only bought one and that was that.
> We
> laughed at them with a measure of sadness as that's all we found at Publix
> supermarket.
>
> Andy


Yes, wet, as in watery -- Awful.
Dee Dee

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> Wayne Boatwright said...
>
>> And very wet! Ugh!
>
>
> During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this is
> the
> mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless. I
> can't
> picture wet, as in watery? I forget.

Yes, very watery, as I remember from the *one* I've ever bought in my life.

Mary

On Oct 25, 10:40 am, "MareCat" > wrote:
> "Andy" <q> wrote in ...
> > Wayne Boatwright said...
>
> >> And very wet! Ugh!
>
> > During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this is
> > the
> > mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless. I
> > can't
> > picture wet, as in watery? I forget.
>
> Yes, very watery, as I remember from the *one* I've ever bought in my life.

Those things are pretty awful. I wonder if you can't grow Haas
avocados in FL.
>
> Mary

--Bryan

"MareCat" > wrote in message
...
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> Wayne Boatwright said...
>>
>>> And very wet! Ugh!
>>
>>
>> During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this is
>> the
>> mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless. I
>> can't
>> picture wet, as in watery? I forget.
>
> Yes, very watery, as I remember from the *one* I've ever bought in my
> life.
>
> Mary

I have a friend born and raised in Florida; moved to California and lived
there for years. He prefers the Florida kind.
Dee

Bobo Bonobo® said...

> On Oct 25, 10:40 am, "MareCat" > wrote:
>> "Andy" <q> wrote in ...
>> > Wayne Boatwright said...
>>
>> >> And very wet! Ugh!
>>
>> > During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this
>> > is the
>> > mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless.
>> > I can't
>> > picture wet, as in watery? I forget.
>>
>> Yes, very watery, as I remember from the *one* I've ever bought in my
>> life.
>
> Those things are pretty awful. I wonder if you can't grow Haas
> avocados in FL.
>>
>> Mary
>
> --Bryan


Florida grows juicy ("watery") things. Probably due to the humidity. I
can't picture a buttery avo harvested in Florida.

Andy

Dee Dee said...

> I have a friend born and raised in Florida; moved to California and lived
> there for years. He prefers the Florida kind.
> Dee


See what being born in Florida does?!?

Andy

MareCat wrote:
>
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> >
> > During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this is
> > the
> > mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless. I
> > can't
> > picture wet, as in watery? I forget.
>
> Yes, very watery, as I remember from the *one* I've ever bought in my life.

Huge and watery -- perfect description of the
MacArthur avocado.

Why do people even grow any other type except Hass?

Sqwertz said...

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:25:42 -0500, Andy wrote:
>
>> Florida grows juicy ("watery") things. Probably due to the humidity. I
>> can't picture a buttery avo harvested in Florida.
>
> I'd bet if you grafted Andy with Gregory Morrow and planted it in
> Florida, it'd get pretty buttery pretty quick.
>
> Oooh-la-la!
>
> -sw


You can bet your bottom dollar and lose every time!!!

Now what would steve warts grafted to anything create?

A stand alone ****-up asshole.

Andy

Dee Dee > wrote:

>Most Haas/Hass avocados I see now are from Chile.
>Not as good as California's, but better than the ones from Florida.

In my experience, Haas avocados from Chile have an annoying
tendency to not ripen properly -- they remain hard, yet
start to develop grey/brown regions in the flesh, and a gap
starts to develop between the skin and the flesh, all
without any of the flesh becoming ripe and edible.

Such an avocado is useless. Even if it happens to only
a fraction of a batch of avocados, it is a nuisance.
I have never had this problem with California avocados.

Steve

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> Wayne Boatwright said...
>
>> And very wet! Ugh!
>
>
> During a brief stay in Florida I shopped and bought one thinking this is
> the
> mother of all avocados. It was huge (softball sized) and flavorless. I
> can't
> picture wet, as in watery? I forget. I only bought one and that was that.
> We
> laughed at them with a measure of sadness as that's all we found at Publix
> supermarket.
>
> Andy

I bought a huge softball sized avocado once and was surprised to find a huge
softball sized pit inside.

Mitch

Mitch Scherer wrote:

> I bought a huge softball sized avocado once and was surprised to find a huge
> softball sized pit inside.
>
> Mitch

A couple of times, my avocado had had really large pits. Grrrr... I
hate it when that happens.

Becca

Becca said...

> Mitch Scherer wrote:
>
>> I bought a huge softball sized avocado once and was surprised to find a
>> huge softball sized pit inside.
>>
>> Mitch
>
> A couple of times, my avocado had had really large pits. Grrrr... I
> hate it when that happens.
>
> Becca


Reminds me of the film "Oh God." George Burns as God is chatting with John
Denver's character and God says "The avocado (shaking his head), my biggest
mistake. Made the pit TOO big!"

Andy