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Original poster

This is ridiculous!

48 replies

missiondecision · 07/12/2017 21:02

It’s just so unnatural??

This is ridiculous!
OP posts:
NotMyMonkees · 07/12/2017 21:03

Oh, love it!

Pickleypickles · 07/12/2017 21:04

I thought exactly that! Its like in the realms of cloned sheep if you ask me 😂

AntiHop · 07/12/2017 21:04

Great idea!

Kentnurse2015 · 07/12/2017 21:04

Ha I saw that earlier and it made me twitch a little!

Lweji · 07/12/2017 21:04

It's probably an infertile hybrid.

MrsTerryPratchett · 07/12/2017 21:05

Where does the hummus go? It's wrong.

MrsExpo · 07/12/2017 21:06

Yep ... I agree OP .... totally bonkers.

Columbine1 · 07/12/2017 21:07

Very likely a cross-spp hybrid & definitely infertile as has no seed

1DAD2KIDS · 07/12/2017 21:10

Finally a way to prevent the middle classes from inflicting devastating embarrassing injuries a kin to the sort that working class people may suffer in their hazardous manual jobs. Finally the middle class is safe. God Bless M&S.

(Well if it wasn't for the future rise of AI competitors in the job market).

Qwebec · 07/12/2017 21:48

Can somebody tell us what they taste like? Seedless watermelons are so tasteless but still took over, I can live with pitless avocados but only is they taste the same.

Original poster
missiondecision · 08/12/2017 09:24

M&S could have funded a tutorial on how to peel them instead !!!
I’ve never cut myself peeling an avocado.
Cut through the centre
All the way round, turning the fruit not the knife.
Pull apart and peel !!!! No cutting needed.
And nothing middle class about it.

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Deathraystare · 08/12/2017 10:24

Now I am as klutzy as anything but surely if the avo is ripe you can remove the stone with ease/use an ordinary table knife. If it is that ripe it comes out easily.

Thymeout · 08/12/2017 10:30

Perhaps they could now turn their attention to the real hazards - like sardine and corned beef tins.

mummmy2017 · 08/12/2017 10:30

Where do you put the prawns, as there is no hole...

soupforbrains · 08/12/2017 12:05

I'm not sure why people are freaking out about how it's so unnatural or akin to cloning sheep.

You do all know that the bananas we have bred for eating are sterile in fertility terms, and also we did exactly this in order to get seedless grapes.

It's nothing new or especially shocking. Perhaps a bit futile and unnecessary but that's what we humans do.

LaurieFairyCake · 08/12/2017 12:11

Is it a bad thing if it's infertile?

PurplePumpkinHead · 08/12/2017 12:16

The bananas we eat are sterile, therefore effectively cloned. The inability to mutate and adapt, leaves them vulnerable to a species wide wipe out. The bananas we eat are at risk.

If you cut yourself chopping up an avocado, it sounds like survival of the fittest to me!

Leave the stone in Grin

soupforbrains · 08/12/2017 12:32

Almost all commercially produced fruit, including but not limited to grapes, blueberries, apples and cherries, are grown using cuttings and never from seeds, most of the most popular fruit varieties are sterile whether or not they still have a seed/stone/pit in them. I don't see that there is any difference in this with avocados than with anything else.

I also don't really see the need for pitless avocados as surely there aren't that many injuries and those that do occur can hardly be life threatening. What WOULD have made sense to me was to breed a variety with a very small stone, so that you could be sure of having more flesh on each fruit.

TrojansAreSmegheads · 08/12/2017 12:36

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RhiannonOHara · 08/12/2017 13:15

I’ve never cut myself peeling an avocado.

I just don't peel them.

Never cut myself trying to get rid of the stone though, and I'm a world-class klutz.

They make me feel queasy; they look like fat bananas or courgettes. Weird. I'll be sticking to the dangerous thick-skinned stone variety!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/12/2017 16:34

I keep reading that as pitiless avocadoes. Grin

On the BBC news article about this, it said that there is a consultant cosmetic surgeon at Charing Cross hospital who claims to have four patients a week needing treatment as a result of avocado-related injuries. How can this possibly be correct? I struggle to believe there are four people attending A&E or minor injuries every week for this reason, never mind needing the attentions of a cosmetic surgeon.

CoughLaughFart · 08/12/2017 17:05

What’s the problem? If you don’t want one, don’t buy one.

Lweji · 08/12/2017 17:31

What’s the problem? If you don’t want one, don’t buy one.

FGS, this is NOT the MN way. Tsc, Tsc.

andylovesme · 08/12/2017 21:14

Is it genetically modified (GMO)? Looks like. I personally love the seeds. I cook it separately and have it.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 09/12/2017 00:10

On the BBC news article about this, it said that there is a consultant cosmetic surgeon at Charing Cross hospital who claims to have four patients a week needing treatment as a result of avocado-related injuries. How can this possibly be correct? I struggle to believe there are four people attending A&E or minor injuries every week for this reason, never mind needing the attentions of a cosmetic surgeon

He possibly averages it out? Like in December he gets shit loads 72 a week in June hardly any. Unless of course that hospital is near a shit farmers market that sells them when they pretend to be ready to eat so they are hard and horrible but don’t look it but you would have thought if it’s the same market it may have been mentioned in one of the many threads we’ve had over the years.