Avozilla - An Avocado the Size of Your Head! WTF?!

Hey everyone, so first off, I'm trying a new format here. I think that outside of just showing you how to cook, I also want to bring you some of the fun, exciting news that's happening around the world that's related to food. And today, I'm gonna start that off with a video about the Avozilla.

I don't know if you've seen this floating around but there's this huge avocado out there that's like literally four times the size of a regular avocado.

Now this is not the first time that people have screwed with the avocado format. There's the safer, seedless avocado because bitches keep cuttin' themselves every time they try to seed one. Then there's also these smaller, egg-size, snack-sized avocado which I totally don't get because regular avocados are snack size.

Anyway, this one's huge. It's like the size of your head. The Avozilla avocado comes from Australia. It was actually planted, well it doesn't necessarily come form Australia but I'll get to that. It was actually planted, the one that I'm talking about, was planted four years ago by avocado grower, Ian Groves, which is a great name if you're a farmer. He plated 400 trees. He just finally got to the point where he can actually start selling off that fruit. And let me tell you, it's sort of taking the internet by storm.

My main concern when it comes to this new giant avocado is that usually bigger is not better when it comes to produce. I mean there's a few places where bigger is better, right? But like bigger's not better when it comes to produce. Bigger things tend to have less flavor but apparently, this Avozilla avocado tastes just like a regular avocado, even though it's freakin' huge.

It's now, you're probably thinking, this is some sort of, you know, genetically modified, lab-based type thing but it's actually not. It's actually kind of this more traditional cross-breeding thing. It's a crossbred version of the Guatemalan avocado and also the West Indies avocado. Either way, I don't know if I'm quite a fan of this. Okay, so it's not genetically modified but it's still freaking huge. And it's kind of scary, right? Like there's just something about it that seems really, really unnatural though I guess it is natural because it's a cross-bred avocado. But still, I don't know about you but I would like, I would try it but I've been pretty darn happy with regular avocados. They suit me quite well.

So what does one of these babies cost? Well, weighing in around four pounds, the price of these Avozilla avocados are running around $9. That seems pretty pricey for an avocado but it is like the size of your head, right? So that's a lot of avocado toast.

But I would love to hear your opinions on it. One, do you love avocado because I know there's some avocado haters out there. Two, how do you feel about putting effort into growing an avocado that's four times the size of a regular one and you know, nine bucks, and would you try it? Do you want to try it? If you're in Australia and you're watching this and you have tried it, please let me know.

Anyway, thanks for tuning in, I'll see you guys next time.

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[allisoncrete]

*"Eating Avocado toast on the west coast"* srsly this video reminds me of the song

[HelenaMikas]

Love Avocado and eat loads .. Would I want to try ? maybe but, like yourself I'm happy with them as they are .PLUS once cut and peeled you need to eat pretty quickly lemon juice or not ... Maybe fine for a party .. OK now it's a coss .If it takes off some food industry giant will try and modify .... Stick to what know and like ..*

[HowRay]

Love avocados. Want more. Want Avozilla, YES. Would I buy it.?? YES (probably). I bet he won't ship them to the U.S. Hmmm...wonder if they're grafted.? If they come true, wonder if he would sell me a couple of pits.?? Have to consider that...