Eastern european here, never ate raw avocado. What is the joke here? You should peel it before? I know you can break your teeth if you accidentally bite the big nut inside, but it’s the same for plum and peach.
As an American, this comment is quite the culture shock!
You absolutely don’t want to eat the skin on an avocado. This photo is like if someone were to bite into a banana without peeling it, but worse.
They don’t grow here, so they are not cheap. In the 90s “Southern fruits” were orange and banana, everything else from outside Europe was too expensive for the common folks. Before the 90s you couldn’t even buy any of that.
Just looked it up on some online local shops, the price is 2-3 USD a piece. Not a kg, one fruit.
Worse?! I couldn’t imagine eating a raw banana peel. We’ve tried making vegan “bacon” out of banana peel once and it was ok-ish. But raw banana peel?
First, that avocado is under-ripe. They are hard until they are ready to eat and then they get buttery soft, like bananas.
Second, only the green flesh tastes good, the outer skin is leathery and gross and the pit is hard and not edible, so like a mango, you gotta skim and pit it.
And third, avocado really isn’t something you eat by itself. It’s kinda like vegetable mayonnaise, fatty but without a ton of its own flavor so it’s almost always part of a dish with some lemon or lime juice or other acid or something salty like soy sauce.
Disagree with the third. Not your description, but the eat by itself part. It can be great either way, just straight or as a mayo. Though it’s probably more healthy as the supliment than just by itself.
Avocado is usually eaten raw. You’re just not supposed to also eat the skin.
I meant unprocessed. I only ate in salads, sauces and drinks. I think you couldn’t even buy an avocado here for a long time, or you had to go to some special shops. Nowadays it’s common in supermarkets, but I don’t eat fruits frequently.
It’s technically a fruit. But just like tomatoes: you don’t really eat it like e.g. an apple.
