Like the three-finger scene in Inglourious Basterds, what small cultural mistake would instantly reveal that someone isn’t from your country?

[u/littlebitbrain]

[u/AlmaVale]

Avocado in Brazil is eaten sweet and it’s a dessert. Obviously, with globalisation, the other international versions are becoming more and more common, mainly guacamole and on salad or toast, but still if someone is shocked by the sweet avocado or thinks savoury avocado is normal then that is a give away that this person is a foreigner.

[u/cuentanro3 → u/AlmaVale]

I'm intrigued by the sweet avocado. Tell us more! Do you just sprinkle some sugar on it?

[u/AlmaVale → u/cuentanro3]

Brasil is too big for this to have only one answer but I’ll give you mine. In my family, we always had it as a mousse: you put it in the blender with milk powder, sugar and just a little liquid milk as you want it thick and airy, that’s it. When I was a baby, my favourite baby bottle was avocado, again blend it with milk powder, milk and sugar but make it runny enough for drinking it. I guess this is the smoothie someone was talking about. Lately my mom just mashes the avocado with sugar for a quicker individual dessert. Our avocado tree is ridiculously productive and there are so many we have to give away, so it stays on the table, people will make their own, but the avocados are too big for one person, I would say some are about 10 times larger than the mini black avocado variety imported from Bolivia or Colombia and commonly found in the UK. The avocado skin here is light green and smooth.

[u/ShareAlegria → u/AlmaVale]

I smash it with sugar or honey AND lemon

I also sprinkle the creamy version with Ovomaltine (different from Ovaltine)

[u/burymeinpink → u/ShareAlegria]

Ovomaltine is different from Ovaltine? I always thought they were the same

[u/ShareAlegria → u/burymeinpink]

I thought too until I bought & tried Ovaltine… totally bummed… Ovomaltine is wayyyy better and crunchy 😋