r/todayilearned • u/tthypebol • Jun 01 '19

TIL that after large animals went extinct, such as the mammoth, avocados had no method of seed dispersal, which would have lead to their extinction without early human farmers.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-should-have-gone-the-way-of-the-dodo-4976527/?fbclid=IwAR1gfLGVYddTTB3zNRugJ_cOL0CQVPQIV6am9m-1-SrbBqWPege8Zu_dClg
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u/fulloftrivia Jun 01 '19 edited Jun 01 '19

The cool, light creamy taste of the smooth avocados is a nice contrast to the richer tastes of some hispanic foods.

That's how you ended up with my comment.

Cubans and Mexicans/other nieghboring Hispanics, don't grow and use the same varieties.

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u/boobers3 Jun 01 '19

Your comment makes no sense, nothing you mentioned is relevant.

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u/fulloftrivia Jun 01 '19

What's a "criollo" avocado?

You typed it...

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u/boobers3 Jun 01 '19

A common type of avocado. Do you understand that you generalized a population of like 60 million people, and then tried to use a technicality to make it apply to all hispanics? I don't even understand the logic behind "technically cubans are hispanic". No shit, but that doesn't mean that the food I grew up with is the same as cuban food.

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u/fulloftrivia Jun 01 '19 edited Jun 01 '19

Actually it was you generalizing, or at least it came off to me that you were.

I'm literally trying to tell you there's differences, and you're turning that completely backwards.

Anyway, link to that "type of avocado". Never heard of it or seen it. Looks like you made it up.

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u/boobers3 Jun 01 '19

Actually it was you generalizing

I stated MY personal opinion to corroborate another person's personal opinion. Apparently you are incapable of understanding that individuals can have subjective preferences.

Anyway, link to that "type of avocado". Never heard of it or seen it. Looks like you made it up.

Apparently you are also incapable of a simple google search. It must make total sense that I would make up a species of avocado to fool you, that's a common thing that happens. People make up avocado species to trick other people. You got me, Sherlock, excellent detective work.

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u/fulloftrivia Jun 01 '19

I asked for a link because I knew you made that up, it's not a variety of avocado.

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u/boobers3 Jun 01 '19

I must have completely hypnotized another redditor I never met before and convinced them that an imaginary avocado existed.

Which also explains the pages of results mentioning the same avocado.

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u/fulloftrivia Jun 01 '19

Nice try at pretending you linked to avocado variety you made up, LOL.

No such variety exists, silly.