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Default Pickled avocado?

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> Wilson > wrote:
>
>> sometime in the recent past ChattyCathy posted this:
>>> Is there such a thing? I have googled both th net and this group and
>>> haven't found anything that mentions it per se (but that doesn't mean
>>> much).
>>>
>>> Somebody over on r.f.c. brought it up, so I just thought I'd ask here.
>>>
>>> Thanks.

>> I've never heard of it, but it would seem that a ripe avocado would be too
>> soft to pickle in the usual sense, IMHO.

>
>
> How about an unripe one? Like using an unripe mango in chutney? It
> sounds pretty unappealing to me; I like my avocadoes ripe.

The only way I eat avocado is in guacamole, otherwise I don't care for
them. Never met a mango that I liked either, even when I owned a piece
of a 10 hectare mango plantation in the Philipines. They just taste
astringent to me.