The Strange History of Avocados
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- In this video, we look at the history behind a fruit of growing popularity: The avocado berry. Where did it come from, how did it develop, and how did it get to where it is today?
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[1] Galindo-Tovar, María Elena, et al. “THE AVOCADO (PERSEA AMERICANA, LAURACEAE) CROP IN MESOAMERICA: 10,000 YEARS OF HISTORY.” i Harvard Papers in Botany vol. 12, no. 2, 2007, pp. 325-334. iJSTOR/i www.jstor.org/stable/41761865. Accessed 10 Sept. 2021.
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[3] "Domestic avocado consumption in the United States from 1985 to 2022." Statista.
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[4] Smith, K. Annabelle. "Why the Avocado Should Have Gone the Way of the Dodo." Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 24, 2013.
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[7] Handwerk, Brian. "Holy Guacamole: How the Hass Avocado Conquered the World." Smithsonian Magazine, July 28, 2017. www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
[8] Kelly, Guy. "A Cultural History of the Avocado." BBC Three, 31 July 2018.
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I grew up eating avocados and I realized a few years ago that all of a sudden it was “trendy” and I did not understand it at all. Then I read someone comment that they didn’t have avocados in Germany until recently and that’s when I realized that it wasn’t a worldwide fruit. It grows in our backyards in Dominican Republic so I never even gave it thought. 😂
Do you have Stachelbeeren? Because of it grows in my backyard 🤣
I grew up in southern California and ate avocados everyday growing up. There still orchards that sell them 12 for $1.00.
We tried to grow an avocado tree in SE Tx, but we had a slight frost and it was destroyed. We had a frost resistant Meyer lemon tree for about 15-16 yrs and in 2021 there were 36 hrs of 28Fahrenheit which made it freeze and never recovered.
Someone must have transplanted it to the DR at some point.
@@BBB-rd2qi Nothing costs a dollar anymore. What's the address?
My family grows avocados in uruapan, Michoacán Mexico! The whole town is known for them, I highly recommend visiting. My immediate family has since immigrated and started an orchard here in the Bay Area! If anybody has any questions on starting I am happy to help! :)
If someone were to grow avacados from pit, how bad would they be? Less good, awful, poisonous?
@@fnamelname9077 it’s a random result! But more than likely the fruit will be bad and awful. It might actually not bear any fruit as well. I recommend grafting, you can start your avocado seeds now and graft when you find a separate plant. Lowe’s sells hass avocado plants that you can use to graft into the plant(s) you started from seed.
@@fnamelname9077 note that grafting can be tricky so don’t give up after the first try!
@@jesussandoval9843 Thanks for the advice!
@@fnamelname9077 you’re welcome, good luck!
I hated avocados, for years I avoided them like the plague. then one day after consuming tequila, I went to a little mom-and-pop Mexican restaurant in Tucson and ordered a plate of burritos. it came back with avocados on it. well, I was just drunk enough to eat them. now they are one of my favorite foods. can't seem to get enough of them. I guess I'm making up for the lost time.
Nathaniel, I remember when I was a little kid and mom would cook peas and serve them. 😂
Needless to say I would only eat one at a time and after the third one I be choking 🤣. Guess what now I love the baby green peas now. So, I wonder was else did I miss?? When I was a kid😂😂😂
Fun fact - every ~7 years or so you replace all your taste buds. So you might end up hating your favorite food, or loving the food you hated the most... worth to do a "tasting" party of things you didn't like before every 7 years or so.
@@rxappdev that explains a lot. foods I once loved I now don't care for..i.e...pizza, chili. and those things I hated I now eat regularly. thanks for sharing.
@@nathanielcohen9890 Cheers! Glad you found some new foods. Some foods also require getting used to. Like first time they might not be appealing, usually by 3-5th time you will either start liking it or know you don't for sure. Like most people do not like coffee and olives - at first. And good you lost your appetite for pizza, not the healthiest of foods.
I have avocado multiple times trying to convince myself to like it. But God it's just so gross.
I live in South Florida where many of us grow avocados in our backyards and we often give some to our neighbors sometimes in exchange for mangoes which we also grow in abundance.
What a dream!
I spent three months in Guatemala a few years back. I miss being able to just find avocados growing on the side of the road
I have one in my backyard
That's one thing I love about Guatemala. The soil and weather is so good that if you throw a seed or a piece of fruit chances are pretty good that something will grow out of it. A while back someone in my family must've spitted out a watermelon seed and sure enough six months or so later there was a plant with watermelons growing on it.
The chances of any random avocado seed producing a fruit that tastes good is about 1:10,000.
You were lucky on the time of year you visited since avocados are seasonal. Mango season overlaps with avocado season. Good times.
The avocado is quite popular in Latinamerica, often considered a meal staple accompanying salad. In fact, there is a constant debate between countries that call it “palta” and countries that call it “aguacate”
Is called palta only in four countries, Bolivia , Peru , chile and Argentina , in Brasil is called abuacate , and all other countries of. South America called aguacate word that comes from the Nahuatl language that means testicle , because it’s shape , Nahuatl language ( Aztec ) was spoken in all Mesoamérica as linguales franca , was spoken for several tribes , called Nahuatlacas tribes that came from the mythical cove of chicomostoc ( place if the seven coves) located in the mythical region of Aztlan , land of herons place that may be in northern Mexico, even USA or Canada , some tribes of the USA, claim they were the ancestors of the Aztec , which my be true , genetically we are the same people ,
Still spoken for about 5 million people , it has at least 20 different dialects
In México grow so many varieties my favorite was a plum size, pear shape, grape kind of skin, but the flavor was licorice with a touch of fennel. It's eaten with the skin. One day I found in the Sierra madre a wild avocado tree the size was like a small olive. The meat was very scarce, but the smell and taste was very strong I believe the fruit was eaten for deer and hogs because I found many tracks.
yeah is so nice.
My neighbor here in California has a Mexican variety that is plum size but no seed and skin is so thin you can eat it whole, flavor Is a bit tart but good
In Guatamala the wild Avocado is the favorite food of the Quetzal bird. Try are about olive size and the trees grow very large and make many fruits. If you want to see a Quetzal , look for big wild Avocado trees.
that is aewsome!
What is your favorite called?
I'm excited for the food history videos! People don't appreciate how unusual the produce aisle really is. May I suggest a video on the history of the kiwi fruit (or Chinese gooseberry as it was known before marketing)?
Saw my first avocado Feb 1983. I was 14. We didn't have them in Wi. But moved to Ca and discovered them. They were 10 cents. Love them!!
Its just incredible how much of everything we use today comes from the Maya and Native Americans, europeans have "traditional" foods that all have origins in the Americas like tomatoes and potatoes.
Chocolate, corn, hot peppers, squash, beans... so much of the food is intermixed now. The colombian exchange.
I recommend a video titled,
“the animated history of Mexico”
In short they talk about the Colombian exchange and how important the America’s and Mexico’s trade were to Europe. It’s a pretty good video.
@@juliogalindo9239 and vanilla
Many fruits, chili peppers, the list goes on.
Look for video 'History of Beans'.
Growing up in South Florida, I was often given large paper sacks of My avocadoes, Papayas, tangelos , grapefruits etc from friends who had the trees with bountiful crops in their yards. I did not like avocados for my first 26 years although the ones grown there were huge and mostly grown were the "Hass" variety , and about as large as a small football or half an egg carton. I threw away SO many, but when I moved to Texas , I discovered that I was in love with guacamole and avocadoes during the pregnancy with my daughter, and ALL Mexican dishes and Salsas as well! But when I first went to but one I was shocked to see them only as big as a large chicken egg or a Roma tomato! I could have beat my own butt for how I threw out so many gorgeous ones before in the trash, and didn't know I liked them that much! Today They are precious to me ,!
Little tomato plant growing in the back yard
my great grandfather and his brother were both pioneers in the avocado industry. they were partly responsible for the popularization of it in the US in the 1900s. theres an avocado species named after them.
Very cool!
I learned that if you try to grow an avocado from seed you'll most likely get a very nasty trading fruit from the cross pollination of what ever it came from. 1 in 10k might taste good. Grafting is the way to keep the fruit consistent. Thanks for your family contributions.
Ah yes, the Lightning-Wolf Alligator Pear. A fine and famous cultivar.
@@neckbone3943 1 in 10,000 is an absurd myth, probably contrived to sell grafted trees, and further confuse the public. with the mexican criollos we grow here in north central florida, it's more like 8 or 9 in 10 seedlings make decent quality fruit. yes, asexual propagation methods are the only way to get the exact same type of fruit, but not the only way to get good fruit
@@lordofoats with that variety, how long until they produce fruit? What temperature can they withstand?
My grandma has two 🥑 🌳 in Sinaloa 🇲🇽 but the best ones are grown in Michoacán 🇲🇽 respect
On the island of Kaua'i we have about 40 varieties, here on the big island they grow very easily and fruit plentifully too. I haven't been to Mexico since I was a kid and would love to go see the beautiful orchards and lands of Mexico.
@@AdamWestish going to the right spots you’ll bust a nutt… theirs avocados that grow almost the size of my big 8 size head
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The best imo are the Guatemalan ones!!
@@nic558 maybe
found a “Florida” avocado variety in a Fiesta grocery store once. It had smooth green skin instead of the alligator skin, and was the size of a small papaya but twice the size of your average Hass avocado. It was delectable. Juicier, not as “buttery” as the Hass but dang it was also real good on its own.
Most avocados can get huge but they're usually harvested early for easier transportation
The watery type not oily ha
At my store they have it under the name slimcavo
This is a variety more popular in the Caribbean, I like them but they are not the same as Hass.
My favorite one's!
when I lived in CA in the 2000s I could buy them 10 for $1 from stands off the freeway when it was in season. I didn't know this happened until recently, but they were probably stolen. My favorite thing about them is that it has such a mild flavor that it can be used in many things and it takes on the flavor of what you add. I like it a plain or in other things.
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That damn fruit maffia....
Seriously fruitsellers have to live too. Nobody got filthy rich selling fruit - like say oil companies selling oil
You can still get large avocados 2/1 in summer. It’s haas that are overpriced. A good sized bacon bigger than a softball can found for .50
Inflation in price because of popularity
now used more in vegan foods .
I’ve always lived in California, in an area where avocados are grown. I’ve never seen 10 for $1.
@@genxx2724 I saw them on the side of the 15 near Fallbrook around 2002. I'm assuming now (I didn't know this happened until fairly recently) that they were probably stolen because of the price & that they were set up at a freeway. Hope this explains it better
I put Avacados seeds in the local park, right where a seep, has started in recent years.
2 have come up so far, others to be checked as they are in a slightly different situation - still near water. I would like to see then survive "Freinds of the park", when they go on working bees.
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Is likely in reference to a fruit related to the canistel fruit. Many early explorers likened the flavor to butter as it was sweet and yellowish (butter tasted different than most processed, whitish butters today). The fruit can range from yellow to orange, is mildly sweet and creamy, and has a boiled-yolk or butter-like consistency when ripe.
I loved studying the development of agriculture in college anthropology courses. One of my professors felt that because avocadoes need so much water, the domestication of the plant indicated the development of irrigation at a much earlier date that we can prove. My son has an avocado tree in his yard in CA, the avoes have less flesh than what we get in the store but are tastier.
I'm happy that you're making a series about the history of fruits. I've been always curious about these odd looking watermelons
Yay! Food history! Looking forward to it!
Same, im waiting for the history of chilis
I remember avocados getting more popular in the 1970's and by the 90s I bought them regularly. They are so plentiful and cheap these days in comparison! I still grow the pits for a lark, they are pretty plants!
I remember a children's book from my childhood (the 90's) called "The Avocado Pear Baby", something along those lines.
Come to Finland, Avocados are SO expensive here, as are my.belobed dragon fruits 😭. We also grow the seeds, I also name my Avocado plants. Hehe
I would love to try an avocado harvested ripe. The only avocados we have in europe are harvested way before they are ripe and are expensive.
Excellent documentary. All my life I have loved avocados but did not know its origins until today. Thank you for sharing.
You’re content is among my favorite of all time.. please keep it up. I rewatch all of them.
Awesome :) I've enjoyed your food history videos. I found your channel some time ago because of your history content, but I'm very glad to hear you'll be making more of these kinds of videos.
We have a Haas Avocado tree in our backyard that was a housewarming gift in 1928 given to the original owner builder by Mr. Haas himself (they worked together and were friends).The tree is still alive and well and produces amazing avocados to this day. It is approximately 45-50 feet tall by the way!
WOW what an amazing bit of history you have. It is wonderful to still have a tree
That is a little over 90 years old
One other thing you might add from DEEP history: the unusually large seeds of the avocado cannot be eaten whole by any living animal, and thereby spread to new areas through droppings. This means the wild avocado evolved to be eaten by animals which no longer exist -- like giant ground sloths and mastodons from the Pleistocene.
FANTASTIC OBSERVATION
I am a professor of Archeology and Ancient History.
I will disseminate this in my classes.
Thank you.
@@glenmccall8854 Much appreciated. I came across that somewhere a while back. The brief article said another seed -- mango, as I remember, was the same. But since humans were around with the last of the megafauna, perhaps our gardens are in part responsible for the survival of those large-seeded fruits.
@@mondopinion3777
You got my attention by the reference to mastodons and sloths.
I will have to admit that I am one of those nutty professors.
Much of my interest is centered around frozen Mammoths in the artic circle with undigested tropical plants in their stomach.
And, of course, that leads to dinosaurs and man's coexistence evidenced by their intermingled footprints captured in limestone in the Paluxy river bed at Glen Rose, Texas.
@@glenmccall8854 It's great to know your mind is open to different narratives. That makes you a true scientist.
I am SOOOO pleased to have found the "Fire of Learning". I'd researched the history of the humble potato for a book and was blown away. Thank you thank you.
Thank you Fire of Learning for this wonderful video. I found this totally fascinating. I adore avocados. I make my own guacamole and love it’s nutty taste and buttery texture. I am looking forward to watching more of your brilliant videos 💜😁🥑🍍
A Great avocado is creamy and nutty in flavor.
Arizona has a 'native' avocado. The original tree is in Aravaipa Canyon and at least 100 years old. It's survived bitter cold freezes, floods, droughts, and hungry animals.
Growing up in Southern California, avocados were a seasonal treat and expensive in stores but available off the tree in some neighborhoods.
You have a very interesting channel and subject matter. Thank you. 😊
I accidentally clicked and stayed through all of it and subbed, loved!
An idea for the next video: The strange history of Fire of Learning and fruit and vegetable videos.
Love the content as always!
first time my city has been named in anything I've seen, even our local news skips us, great vid!
Love these vids. Good change from most history channels that talk about wars and stuff.
Nice one. Really enjoy the food history.
History of food is great. Keep them coming!
Thank you Mexico for this wonderful fruit!! 🙏🙏
epaepa 12; Central America too.
God planted it there
@@IslaVista61 no, hass is guatemaltecan but avocado no, it's mexican
Americans when seeing all countries below them: Mexico!!! Telenovelas, tacos!
Thank you for creating these history of food videos which I find very interesting
The information contained here is so, so good. Really well put together documentary. The only thing that made it hard to watch is that it sounded like you were doing an impression of an announcer's voice. You got a good sounding voice as it is, no need to change it.
Yay for History of Food! I'm excited for this series!
Have you considered attempting a collaboration with another channel that deals in historic food/cooking? *Tasting History* and *Townsends* are a couple that come to mind. Perhaps you could document the history of a particular food/ingredient, then they could highlight a recipe that incorporates that ingredient?
That sounds like something I would be interested in doing, I might reach out to them some time next year.
I love your food history series. (Probably because I love food.) Encore! More about spices would be nice.
I really love the formality of your videos
I am excited for the food history videos!
Thanks, man. This is very informative. I came here to check about avocados to Mesoamerica, but learned much more. Cheers!
Weekly food history is something I didn't know I needed but I'm glad I have now
WHY DO I LIKE THIS ??? great video!!
Excited for more history of food!
That was great. Thanks.
Tasting History and Food History on Fridays! I'm very happy.
Santa Paula, CA: Avocado orchards grow there and I remember picking the avocados off the trees & ground and just living in "eating heaven!"
What really sucks is even if you eat a perfect Avocado with great texture and taste you can't plant the seed and get the same fruit.
About 7 years ago, I took a supermarket avocado seed and after partially suspending it over water with toothpicks for some time to let roots grow, I planted it. It took and it is a beautiful plant today. However, I still have not had any avocados from it. I keep waiting. Someday......... I hope. :)
@@Ravensonng hopefully you get a new breed of creamy delicous avocados
@@RavensonngI think you need two avocado trees to get fruit - a ‘male’ and a ‘female’ plant.
@@Ravensonng I’ve heard it takes something like 7 or 8 years before they start bearing fruit.
Apples are the same.
This is very interesting history. Thank you
I discovered your channel through this video, and I subscribed Bc this is quality content!
Same 👌🤩
My family grew Fuerte avocados in Pauma Valley, CA that were divine!. We thought the Haas variety was inferior because it was strong and oily. The Fuerte, however, was hard to handle, and had to be eaten at the perfect time of ripeness. The Haas is more forgiving, and is easier for markets to handle, hence its popularity.
Thank you for the vid!
Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be appreciated. You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on CZcams. But brother I am waiting for an promised video on Skanderbeg when it will come? I have a curiosity also can I ask your name? And Where are you from?
In Jamaica we know the Avocado 🥑 as a Pear pronounce PEER 🍐. so when I came to America When I was offer a pear 🍐 I was like wtf is this! LOL 😂
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Hyped for more food history!
Great video! For anyone who loves avocados but hasn't had them in Hawai'i... go there! The avocados are HUGE in Hawai'i. All the fruit there is enormous and delicious. I stayed at a vacation home in the jungle that must have had thousands of huge avocados. Amazing.
TYVM!
Avocados are an amazing fruit but here in Australia they're really quite expensive as the growers in Northern Australia seem to prefer to dump them rather than allow them to be sold cheaply down south.
Fuck yeah! Fascinating history! Thank you muchly for the fire video. 🤙 I love your content.
Usually I don't comment on anyone's video but your content is superb so I am commenting on your video. Wow this video is fantastic. Every line is a point. Your channel deserve more subscriber. I regularly watch your videos from 6 years. As a old subscriber I want a help from you that please make a video on skanderbeg because I realised that only you can describe it nicely. As I know you from the old days, I think you will definitely make a video on this topic
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Thank you for the food history
An ex gf's grandfather moved into the south eastern side of the San Fernando Valley in the 1920s (greater Los Angeles area). On his property were various fruit & nut trees - including some trees that had a green fruit with a huge seed in it. Having no knowledge of this fruit, he would throw all of them away. Finally, he saw them being sold in a grocery store and asked what they were and were they edible. He'd been throwing away barrels of avocados for years!
If your doing food history, you should do one on the cabbage and its relatives (unless you did that already). That or eggplants.
Thanks for this video just learned something... growing up in Jamaica we called it pair coming to America it's avocado never know why...now i know thanks for the info
Thank you for the excellent video . A little additional info for you . . . In some countries in South America the avocado pear is commonly known as ' Palta ' . Keep up the good works , regards.
I never use to think much about avocados as a kid but over the years I've learned to enjoy their smooth and creamy texture as it can serve as spreads, drinks or just eaten by themselves.
I especially love blending a banana with avocado with a little bit of (vegan) milk makes for a thick substantial drink.
I either heard, or read something years back, that said all Navel Oranges came from one ‘freak’ tree somewhere in South America. It said that Spanish missionaries brought cuttings to California, which were grafted onto (if I remember), Valencia rootstock. Is this true, that all Navels in existence, came from that tree? I’m intrigued by your videos, regarding the history of so many fruits and vegetables. Glad I found your channel. 👍👍
Excited for next Friday now
The videos of this guy are pretty perfect.
I love these food histories!
great video!
Very nice history about Avocado
Thanks for that.
I look forward to your videos and it's not very many creators that I do and for some reason I really like the tone and your presentation because it just makes me think of Ben Stein in the dry eyes clear eyes ads or every time I click on your videos I start thinking about Ferris bueller so take that as a compliment
1970's LIFESTREAM natural foods store at 4th & Burrard, Vancouver BC - fantastic favourite store! - the avocados were imported from hawaii, i think, bright green and about as big as a football. The Best!
Thank you.
Reminds me of the old Vine: “It’s an avocado!...Thanks!”
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
The king has returned
I really love your videos! And your voice reminds me a lot of Scott Menville, I mean not completely but enough to make me think that youd sound good in a Robin cosplay.
Thank you!
I was expecting this for Christmas...
I remember a short comic in a kids' magazine back when I was 9 or 10 featuring a man who visited Florida for the first time and was served a fruit he'd never had before. When he asked what it was (while ordering his 3rd or 4th serving), a waiter replied "Alligator Pear" -- and by the end of the story, the man had eaten so many that he'd basically turned into a giant 2-legged alligator and ran off into the Florida swamps to live out his life there. As a result of that dumb comic, I basically refused to eat the darn things until I was in my 20s. (I am now in my early 60s.)
The only problem I have avocados these days is that they're often either expensive and rock-hard inedible until they rot, or on sale cheap because they're black and squishy. One faint ray of hope is the avocado tree (survivor of a group of 5) I have growing in a large pot in my house. It's seemed to die at least twice only to sprout new leaves before I could bring myself to uproot it & toss it out, so hope remains alive... I'm also kind of laughing because after carefully following instructions on how to sprout an avocado seed for years without a single success, this tree (and the 4 now-dead saplings surrounding it) sprouted from an avocado pit that I literally just stuck into some potting soil in a pot one day... :-)
Put them in a paper bag.
Shop at a Mexican grocery store if there's one in your area. They have nice avocados.
Thanks for sharing that was a funny story. 😁
Yes I love Food History. Could you do one sugar? How did they figure it out from cane sugar to sugar beats, then to Corn. How about Lou Han, Monk Fruit, Stevia, The whole sugar thing.
I enjoyed your video so much I never knew that Alligator Apple was Acacado WOW
It's been a year, and there's only 1 fruit video on Lucinox, and 5 videos in total. Comon man!
How interesting. I never thought of using the scions and root stock to produce tasty avacado
I do enjoy your videos on food history.
It was my hope that you would do a follow-up on the Norse folks in the central portion of North America before 1000 ad.
These were those which ran the trade system before 800 ad., evidenced by the construction of earthen mounds and evidenced by the Heavner Rune Stone accompanied by much smaller stone markers indicating distances.
Professor of Archeology and Ancient History.
Thanks
I remember going to the grocery store in the seventies and remember that they were called "alligator pears" back then. My mother would make "cheese crisps" which in the 80's became more popularly known as quesadillas. We put the alligator pears on them. This was in California. Interestingly the other names for the fruit mentioned in the video (aguacate and avocado) mean water bark and testicles, respectively.
I've always adored avocado. Back in the day I'd just eat them as is with a spoon. Back when they sold them sporadically alongside the lychee's, kumquats, starfruits, buddha's palm's, ect.
These days though the ones in the supermarket are no where near as good usually. The unfortunate side-effect of mass production. :(
In San Jose Ca. We had a avocado tree in back on the fence line and it shaded two backyards it is so big and had Hundereds of egg sized avocados, this in in ithe old mission area of town 🤗
WOW how neat
Alligator Pear is a cool name, would have totally been interested in trying such a fruit
Suscribed with the Avocado 🥑 keep food history going...
In Trinidad we have a variety of Avocado called Pollock.
It's extremely large and very tasty.
Very costly as well.
One of my favorites. 🥑