About avocado peel?

[Furiousaboutinstarubbish]

I had brunch in an expensive avocado smashing kind of place.

Half way through I realised that in the smash was unpeeled avocado, and I was eating it.

It was a small place and I didn't want to make a fuss, so I very quietly told the waitress and explained I would like a refund as that was unacceptable. She came back to me with three free coffee vouchers and a croissant and explained that they didn't want to refund me as I'd eaten half of it.

I quietly accepted and left.

Should I have insisted on a refund?

I recommend the combination of avocado and papaya which are bloody lovely together with a squeeze of lemon

My vegetarian northern parents only tried avo last year.

DF declared it unsatisfactory as 'it tastes of nowt, what's the point, and it's dear'

I just can't take to papaya. Apparently it's nice with lime. In some parts of the world it's thought to be a natural contraception (could be the seeds though).

I can't believe people don't know what the OP is in about.
I live in a very rundown, poor town and we have an expensive avocado smashing type place.
The staff are all heavily tattooed, the males are bearded and proudly don't wear socks, rolling up their skinny trousers to reveal the sock shunning.
They serve smashed avocado with pretty much everything, at least one cake or brownie contains it, courgette and beetroot also feature heavily in the baked goods. Food is served in random old tins, on old wooden planks etc.
Coffee is good but there's infinity options, it takes forever to make and costs a lot.

Nakedavenger74

I've never been to Avobar but plenty of other places that tick exactly the same "wanky boxes"!! Esp the last one on your list "failure to indicate currency"

"I can't believe people don't know what the OP is in about."

I think the technical term is "living under a rock"

We all have different ‘tastes’, but it’s (to me) absolutely nothing like lettuce 🙃 they’re not ‘watery’ like that.

Ooh. Soho is definitely a lot closer to me than Glasgow....off to check out wanky menu....

Avocados in the U.K. are minging. No taste at all.

And I live somewhere with several 'right on' eating establishments and I have no idea what an expensive avo smashing place is.

I also live in a deprived northern area that has an avocado place. The only sell coffee, vegan cakes and smashed avo on 'artisan' bread. Crates and planks to sit on as described by a pp. it's not even a proper cafe space, used to be a small shop. They must be raking it in.

I'm au fait with restaurant wankery.

Once got served ceviche on a ping pong bat. The server looked apologetically embarrassed as the citrus marinade leaked across the table.

Sadly the menu is nowhere near as good, but definitely worth a visit still.

I think avocado tastes like banana only without the sweetness.

I love avocado. But then, I like bananas.

Cerviche in a ping pong bat

Yes was one of the types of places so described. I bit upon a large chunk of peel, about 2cm long and roughly 3mm wide. Completely put me off eating any more

Annie it was me who bought lettuce into this when trying to describe avocado. But i meant it as a comparison - how lettuce tastes just fresh and green with no real strong lingering flavor of it's own. Like avocado. But Avocado doesn't taste like lettuce i agree ..

Describing flavor is bloomin' difficult!

I live in a ‘naice’ area, but it’s totally lacking in nice/wanky/artisan/smashed avocado type cafes. It’s weird. Might have to move back up North. Best of all worlds 😊

Some of us have been smashing avocados for decades before millennials were even a twinkle.

They are lush. Hipsters did not invent avocado on toast. I think it was 70's hippies. Hipsters just invented charging for it.

Yep crate and plank wankery available at our nearest town too. And it's a very small boring town ....

Laiste It is, isn’t it 😂

@SockQueen As for "expensive avocado smashing place" I'm guessing no reservations, mismatched industrial style furniture, waiters in too-tight trousers, with beards and hipster glasses, very serious about coffee, menu that just says "smashed avo on sourdough 6.5" with no £ sign or 0 on the end but with their FB, insta and twitter details at the bottom so you can share photos of your artisanal meal. Am I on the right lines?

Do you live near me?

If you're going to smash an avocado, you cut it in half, take out the pit, and scoop out the flesh with a spoon. I'm confused about how the skin would have gotten mixed in there.

See 'we want plates' on Twitter for food receptacle buffoonery.

My favourite is 'chicken tikka staircase with chutney cupboard'

chicken tikka staircase with chutney cupboard

Well they clearly hadn't smashed it very well, thus my thoughts about the full refund

I would have picked it out, put it on the side of the plate, ate the rest, and not said a word or asked for a refund.

It must be really hard to run a catering business, if you're expected to lose money for every little mistake.
The equivalent perhaps of having your pay docked if you spell a word wrong on an email, or something.