This is ridiculous!

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It’s just so unnatural??

I have no idea how people impale themselves on avocados.

Must be nuts

Is it genetically modified (GMO)?

Sorry andy but that comment was unintentionally hilarious.

Do people often cut themselves removing the stone?

I'm the most accident prone person on the earth and I've never done it.

I remember these from decades ago - they’re nothing new - but nobody considered they had a safety benefit then. Also remember flat peaches in the 1970’s when they were called cushion peaches

Avocado hand was in the news a few months ago.

Apparently, instead of levering the stone out with a spoon, or slicing the avocado off the stone like a normal person would, apparently the hipster/Nigella/not sure which stupid person publicised it was way to do it is to hold the avocado half with the stone in it in one hand and use the other to ram a large knife into the stone to pull it out that way.

What could possibly go wrong except to miss the stone and ram the knife straight through the soft avocado into your hand?

So instead of going back to chopping up avocados in a sensible and non trendy way, possibly publicised by a 1970s style graphically frightening public information film, the modern way is to fuck with avocados to grow them without stones to protect the stupid from themselves.

andy, I am quite mesmerized, how do you eat it? It's a huge really hard chunk looking like stone, never even crossed my mind to eat it.

I never had problem removing stone and slicing avocado. It certainly is weird to look at skinny avocados.

But you need to leave the stone in to stop your guacamole going brown.

The normal avocado isn't exactly any more natural.

There's far worse products on sale, single-serve plastic wine glasses..

They called them cocktail avocados for some reason when they first came out but never mentioned about eating the skin. Think what we've all been missing for 20 years.

If I have to explain to friends from a different country that we are now producing "safe" avocados because the old-fashion ones were too dangerous, I swear they will not believe me.

My kids loved growing plants from the stone as well.

I'm pretty sure they've tried to introduce them about 10 years ago. The south Americans were laughing at us for buying the shitty small avocados at the end of the season when the tree gives up.

I was taking the stone out with a knife, it slipped, I cut nerves and partially severed the tendon.

It was no fun.

no one is saying hurting yourself is any fun, but dumbing down everything is not the solution. We are not going to replace knives, tin cans, glass bottles because they can be dangerous.

Oh it was no fun but I actually don't think it was any different to any other kitchen accident. Well no different to any other kitchen accident where a modicum of thought would have been a good idea.

May I just put this here....

How do you think all the other varieties of fruit evolved to be as they are? Do you think all the combinations of apple just popped up in the wild? This isn’t really that shocking an invention.

Most food is GMO. Genetically modifying things has been going on since Mendel and Punnett squares.

I’m exceedingly clumsy, but I’ve never suffered an avocado injury.

Anyway,

Who are all these people who cut themselves opening avocados? I really dispair sometimes.

I've always opened them the Nigella way. She didn't invent that.