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Personally, I hate avocado in all its forms (guacamole, etc.). I don't understand what people see, err, taste in them.

My wife, OTOH, loves avocados (I had never tried avocado before she forced me to sample one while we were dating, which I ineptly pretended to sort of not hate), and if I forget to buy several when I do the shopping, I'll find myself trying to make up a story on the spot about how all the avocados at the grocery store were rotten, or they were out. And then she gives me that "I'm not buying it" look, sighs, rolls her eyes and stops speaking to me for a whole five minutes.

EDIT: Ok... Wow, you know this was an attempt at humor, so some of the details may have been embellished a bit. I'll just back away from this thread slowly.

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I like avocados because they have a creamy and nutty flavor. They taste a little like green walnuts - not the dried ones from the store, but the raw walnuts from walnut trees. They get your fingers all dark brown when you try to peel the skin and they're delicious.

Also, I wasn't much of a fan of guac until we learnt how to make it at home 2 years ago. Since then we have guac at least twice a week. I still have some left in the fridge. You know what eating chocolate feels like, right? That's the feeling I have when I eat homemade guacamole.

Homemade guac is the only guac worth eating. It's totally different from store-bought.

The concept of store-bought avocado products that isnt just fresh avocado is disgusting to me.

You have leftover guac? That is some extreme self control.

Man those sound good, do you think they ever sell them seasonally in stores?

I have not seen those in stores in the US yet.

I feel they ruin the taste of sushi as well. I wanna taste the raw fish not the avocado.

If they're too unripe, or too bitter, I agree. Otherwise, there are at least some times that it just adds some pleasant richness to the other flavors in the roll.

Order nigirizushi or chirashizushi instead of california rolls?

Have you ruled out that you just got a bad one that first try? They do taste differently, and some are not that good.

This is a strange way to be mean to your wife? I don't get it. EDIT: sorry! Somehow missed the "forget" part of the sentence.

I don't eat fruit, I don't like the taste. When I see dried mangoes, I buy them for my girlfriend because she loves them.

>I don't eat fruit, I don't like the taste.

you can't be serious. you don't like any kind of fruit?

No malice is intended when I forget the avocados. I just forget them. And then I feel bad.

He forgot to buy them. He's not being mean, he's being human.

Forgetting to buy them, yes, that's human.

Trying to cover up instead of just saying "Sorry, honey, I forgot", that's at least tending toward mean.

People sometimes get unreasonable about the things that they love. I just assumed that he was attempting to deflect her potentially unreasonable reaction.

This person habitually attempts to deceive their wife, and from their own account describes her feeling antagonized. I don't think they are "forgetting avocados" so much as they are bullying their partner with plausibly deniable emotional abuse.

His wife forces him to be silent - which is actual abusive behaviour.

"stops speaking to me for a whole five minutes" != "forces him to be silent"

There is no abuse in this anecdote, either way. There's some passive-aggressiveness, and some dismissal, but neither quite rises to the level of abuse.

Oops I miss-read that.

I do find the fact that people are accusing him of abusive behaviour here pretty scarey though.

You save money and enjoy 5 minutes of silence? You are on to something.

I agree, everyone else can have my share of them.

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