Don’t Squeeze Them Please

Is there is another food product like it?

Lucky Dip, that’s a better description.

Yes I’m talking about the avocado.

I’d say there’s a 1/3 chance it’s got overripe black bits in it.

Another 1/3 chance it’s an avocado shaped brick that rots after you put it back in the fridge, all humpty dumpty like, to soften.

Maybe I’m being generous with the thirds; when I get an unblemished and just-ripe specimen I get all thankful to the vegetable gods.

At the local supermarket there’s even a sign that says ‘please don’t squeeze them’. How then are we to filter the over-soft and the blocks?

I’m pretty sure that people don’t want a tube of green stuff that may or may not contain traces of avocados, nuts, dairy products, emulsifiers, preservatives and reconstituted greyhounds. 

Surely an opportunity for the technically minded?