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Foreign avocados take over America’s big guacamole day

Posted by: Maven on February 7, 2010 at 7:26 am

From the North County Times:

“In what surely will shock fans around the nation, this Super Bowl Sunday, America’s biggest sporting day, will be dominated by foreign guacamole.

Because drought has shriveled the California avocado crop, the bulk of the estimated 80 million pounds of avocados consumed in the U.S. on Sunday will come from Mexico and Chile, said the Irvine-based California Avocado Commission.

Last month, Mexico shipped in 65 million pounds of avocados and Chile 42 million pounds. California growers produced almost 16 million pounds, according to figures from the Hass Avocado Board, also in Irvine. The board represents the dominant variety of the fruit. … “

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February 7, 2010 · Filed Under Agriculture

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One Response to “Foreign avocados take over America’s big guacamole day”

  1. dfb on February 7th, 2010 8:44 pm

    This has been years in the making, likely more due to developers replacing acres of avocados with acres of homes and strip malls. La Habra, home of the Hass variety, has been paved over for a long while already. Last time I was in Northern San Diego County, it looked a lot like L.A. and Orange Counties.

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