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Title: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: markecky on November 16, 2007, 10:47:09 AM
So come on then, Fruit or Veg?
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Jezza on November 16, 2007, 10:55:39 AM

Obviously it's a fruit coz it's a pear and it grows on trees and has a big pip..

You trying to pick another fight?

Yours conclusively

PS carrotts are also fruit for as we all know carrotts are the devils favourite fruit..."neither shalt thou eat the fruit of the tree that is known as the carrott tree".
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Jacko on November 16, 2007, 10:58:01 AM
JESUS CHRIST!!
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Jezza on November 16, 2007, 11:04:54 AM

Jacko makes bid for most random and unprompted religious praising post of the year?

But the competitions fierce this year!

Oh My God sweet Mary mother of jesus!
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: markecky on November 16, 2007, 11:05:52 AM
CHRIST ON A BIKE!
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Jacko on November 16, 2007, 11:16:05 AM
HALLALUJA!! ;D not many people know this i was baptised a moomin :'(
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: markecky on November 16, 2007, 12:33:41 PM
(http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/the-moomins-13374.jpg)
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: ManagementGuru on November 16, 2007, 12:40:56 PM
The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Mexico and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. The name "avocado" also refers to the fruit of the tree with an egg-shapped pit.

The tree grows to 20 metres (65 ft), with alternately arranged, evergreen leaves, 12–25 centimetres long. The flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, 5–10 millimetres wide. The pear-shaped fruit is botanically a drupe (this term means a fruit with a large stone in the middle), from 7 to 20 centimetres long, weighs between 100 and 1000 grams, and has a large central seed, 3 to 5 centimetres in diameter.

The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish word aguacate, which derives in turn from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word ahuacatl, meaning "testicle", because of its shape
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: CB on November 16, 2007, 12:49:54 PM
You are quite the AvocadoGuru ;)
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Jacko on November 16, 2007, 01:23:50 PM
Quote from: markecky on November 16, 2007, 12:33:41 PM
(http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/the-moomins-13374.jpg)
I m the one at the front with the rather large beak!!! not saying which ones the others look like :o
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: teasybeaver on November 16, 2007, 01:47:36 PM
Didnt something bad always happen to the moomins. I seem to remember it being a rather depressing programme as a small child, much similar to eastenders today or dare i say it the southport forum!
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: thegazelle on November 16, 2007, 02:29:21 PM
i'm no good at this fishing thing i was hoping jack black would rise in a wily old trout type way to snatch the mayfly on offer but no he lies dormant in a deep hole or eddy.

having established the fruitiness of the avocado can we all surmise which fruit of vegetable or indeed berry, glupe or gourd the tescomeister had in mind when revealing the shade noir of its seeds . i personally am drawn by the kiwi or chinese goosberry for my vote
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: SW on November 16, 2007, 02:42:01 PM
As its the only other black seeded thing i can think of, I'll say watermelon. Well it could be right?
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Mallorca Alty on November 16, 2007, 03:30:19 PM
It is a vegatable. We put Avocado in the Mediterrean Vegatable dishes at work
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: thegazelle on November 16, 2007, 04:11:29 PM
ah but you probably put tomatos in that and they are definitely a fruit
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: markecky on November 16, 2007, 04:29:41 PM
Its far from cut and dried!
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: thegazelle on November 16, 2007, 08:02:04 PM
you'll usually find its fruit such as apricots grapes and plums that are cut and dried i've never heard of an avocado being preserved in this fashion. i think it would just become a stone and some guacomole if left in the sun for a prolonged period once you have plucked it from its bush.
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Brian Flynn on November 16, 2007, 09:24:37 PM
May I complement The Gazelle for the unprompted use of the word gourd below.
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Hamilton on November 16, 2007, 09:28:11 PM
Quote from: Jezza on November 16, 2007, 10:55:39 AM

Obviously it's a fruit coz it's a pear and it grows on trees and has a big pip..


Is Gladys Knight a fruit; she has pips?
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Dougals Dad on November 16, 2007, 10:02:42 PM
Quote from: ManagementGuru on November 16, 2007, 12:40:56 PM

The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish word aguacate, which derives in turn from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word ahuacatl, meaning "testicle", because of its shape

Sounds like bo**ocks to me!
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: SW on November 16, 2007, 10:17:21 PM
Interesting bit of etymology there as the Spanish for bollocks is cacaheutes, similar to the Aztec quoted.

If this doesn't bombard me with Peake's then nothing will.
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: thegazelle on November 17, 2007, 01:30:04 AM
so where does cojones or however its spelt come into the equation or is that a load of bollocks(northwich)
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Toff Apple on November 17, 2007, 07:32:31 AM
as I mentioned in a previous thread, due to the fat content and strucure of the avocado some might say that it has more characteristics of a nut.
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: SW on November 17, 2007, 07:53:42 AM
Quote from: thegazelle on November 17, 2007, 01:30:04 AM
so where does cojones or however its spelt come into the equation or is that a load of bollocks(northwich)

I believe one is Catalan and the other Castillian, but which way round I don't know.



having now taken the trouble to look this up, I now find that cacaheutes does in fact mean peanuts! So it'actually me talking bollocks here then :D

Its little wonder I get some funny looks in Spain isn't it?
Title: Re: Avocado - Fruit or Vegetable?
Post by: Mallorca Alty on November 17, 2007, 01:22:42 PM
Quote from: thegazelle on November 16, 2007, 04:11:29 PM
ah but you probably put tomatos in that and they are definitely a fruit
There is no tomatoes in our Mediterranean dishes.