here's my number (6.022×10^23) so call me tasty

December 15, 2016 1:22 PM

hi hello this is avocado. tyvm for asking. Avocado is a fruit. It tweets. At first for about 10,000 years avocado was just a fruit and didn't tweet, and tbh that was fine too, but now it tweets and plays with other human technology at a shockingly amateurish level that people still seem to enjoy; for example, avocado's Twine game, the time it made guacamole with Michel Foucault, and breathing.website, which just launched to several retweets' worth of acclaim tyvm.
posted by not_on_display (24 comments total)

It also kills aye ayes, so don't let your guard down too quickly.
posted by ChuraChura at 1:38 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

...guacamole...

If there's one thing guaranteed to get the attention of MeFites...
posted by Wordshore at 1:42 PM on December 15, 2016

+1 for the title.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:56 PM on December 15, 2016 [3 favorites]

Sex with avocado! Sex with avocado!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 1:59 PM on December 15, 2016 [14 favorites]

Avocado's Number?
posted by Slothrup at 2:17 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Trader Joe's makes a guacamole under the brand name "Avocado's Number". It's good.
posted by kevinbelt at 2:20 PM on December 15, 2016

the avocado tree is in the same family as the laurel which produces bay leaves that can season sauces for eating the rich and/or pasta
posted by pmdboi at 2:26 PM on December 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

If avocado is a fruit, is guacamole a smoothie?
posted by still_wears_a_hat at 2:30 PM on December 15, 2016 [4 favorites]

Came for the Oglaf reference, stayed for the guacamole.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:48 PM on December 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

If there's one thing to remember, it's that avocados used to be dispersed in the poop of giant mammals but now there's Twitter and globalized capitalism.

So great. Appreciate the Oglaf reference too.
posted by Slinga at 2:52 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Possibly the only thing to which value can be added by smashing it.
posted by acb at 3:10 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

I've followed @RealAvocadoFact on Twitter for quite some time. Interesting to finally see them interviewed.
posted by larrybob at 3:35 PM on December 15, 2016

@RealAvocadoFact and @persimmonfacts are my favorite social media fruits.
posted by Lyn Never at 3:42 PM on December 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

The correct way to eat avocado:

1) smash it
2) put salt on it
3) slather it over your marraqueta. Or in your chicken sandwich. Or over your churrasco.
4) repeat, every single day.
posted by signal at 4:44 PM on December 15, 2016

"Avocado," from the Aztec "ahuácatl," meaning testicles.
posted by bashos_frog at 4:47 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Avocado originally tarted herself up for North American megafauna that no longer exists. Fortunately the hairless apes responsible for the extinction stepped in to fill the gap...
posted by jim in austin at 5:15 PM on December 15, 2016

¿Abrogado?
posted by MtDewd at 5:43 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Okay, so it's been two decades since I've taken physics, but I could SWEAR it was 6.023*10^23.
I remember the successive 23s helping me remember it...has this changed, or am I just totally out of my mind? Or maybe I didn't deserve a 3.7 in high school physics.
posted by aloiv2 at 6:14 PM on December 15, 2016

aloiv2: Back in high school, some 30-odd years ago, my chem textbook used one & the physics textbook used the other.

And just now googling "Avogadro's number", Google tells me "Avogadro's constant" is 6.023 × 10²³. But if I google "Avogadro's constant", Google tells me it's 6.022 × 10²³.

(Thankfully, I learnt at uni that it's 6.02214 [+- something that varies depending on who's teaching the subject] × 10²³…)
posted by Pinback at 8:05 PM on December 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

Avocado originally tarted herself up for North American megafauna that no longer exists. Fortunately the hairless apes responsible for the extinction stepped in to fill the gap...

Myself, I spit out the pits, but to each their own.
posted by sebastienbailard at 12:52 AM on December 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

2) put salt and lemon juice on it

FTFY
posted by acb at 4:18 AM on December 16, 2016

Possibly the only thing to which value can be added by smashing it.

Ore?

/killjoy
posted by pompomtom at 5:30 AM on December 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

Ore?

/killjoy


Ore... melons at a Gallagher show?
</wockawocka>
posted by not_on_display at 1:04 PM on December 16, 2016

They're also great for birthdays.
posted by needs more cowbell at 8:00 AM on December 19, 2016 [1 favorite]