Not only that it’s the most expensive retail, today (again) I bought rotten avocados…
I bought 2 of the expensive ones (2.9cjf each), and they felt “right”. But when opened, it was all black.
I want to avoid being sued by them, so you can figure by yourself why this is happening .
this is Switzerland, hard to get sued. So why is it happening?
Although I am highly annoyed when things like this happen - there was a time I bought onions from Migros, looking and feeling great but rotten inside. More than once in a row even.
If things look and feel right to us, how should the retailer know? Unless you return them.
I remember the problem with the onions was claimed to be due to too much rain back then.
If avocados are picked too early l, they get rotten.. there is no way to know becauee they feel right. The only one that could and should protect us is the retailer. They know that the pick up date of the fruit so they should know that it didn’t complete the maturity “cycle”.
In this case, it seem like a win-win: the retailer bought too “young” avocados and came first to the market.. the farmers care less about selling a premature fruit.
The best experience I have is in the Volg - better to pay 10% and get a nice one, rather than a rotten black avicado
hmmm, don’t know if you’re right about this. For the retailer to know that the pick-date was to early, they would need to know when it was “begetted” 
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I wanted to know where they are from but they don’t say on the website. Interesting enough those Fr. 2.95 ones - extra large=extra much water, by the way - have bad references for years, starting at 2022. Click “mehr Kommentare ansehen” to see them all, they’re in German, French and even in English.
I know it’s a pita to look forward to eat something just to find out it’s rotten but that can happen with fruit and veggies. I’ve not had a rotten avocado in years (the last thing was those onions I mentioned) but I’m a Migros-Chind.
Not that I think Migros knows how to shop better than Coop.
I’ve occasionally had rotten avocados here from a variety of different stores, it happens.
The number of bad ones I’ve had is really small compared to the good ones and that includes the ones I bought from coop. I can’t remember the last time I bought a rotten avocado but I don’t buy those extra large ones.
Plant the seeds. I planted ten seeds, eight sprouted, two died and wete replaced by another five seeds and now after five yesrs they are over two meters high and wonderfully bushy and leafy and I quite proud of them.
… but as far as I know, they don’t prduce fruit, or do they?
How many avocados have you had from them so far?
It happens sometimes with avocados from Migros as well.
No fruit yet, but they are a beautiful plant. I’ll post some pictures.
The usual culprit here in Europe is stem-end rot, caused by an anthracnose-like fungus. It’s not obvious from the outside, but when you cut into the fruit, the end is soft and brown and there are brown threads running lengthwise through the fruit, ruining both taste and texture. I eat a lot of avocadoes, and I find that about 1 in 6 are affected. It’s caused by poor growing practices (deadwood attracts damp), allowing the fruit to lie around in wet conditions before cold storage, etc. I always had a tree in California. Hope slammer gets some fruit soon.
With a dozen trees the odds are in place for two or three fruit-bearing ones. It typically takes 5-10, up to 15 years until the first harvest. But according to perplexity avocades don’t “breed true”. Fruit quality varies drastically, they’re inferior in size, texture, or taste very often. Even more so in our climate outside of greenhouses, they’re tropical trees.
AI suggests grafting from a proven good producer, that’s also what you get when buying a tree.
Caveat emptor.
At Coop,I usually buy the 10-12 CHF bags that you can top with the fruit of your choice. If 1 or 2 avocados are not right, NBD.
I‘ve had much better luck with avocados from Aldi. Last month, i bought them several times- they were from Peru. Often, Coop avocados are from Spain and have stringy fibers. The Aldi ones were creamy and had a decent shelf life. I’ve been away large parts of July, so haven‘t bought any recently.
I bought some avocados from Lidl which were labelled on the price tag as coming from Peru. Curiosity got the better of me so I pulled the carton out and it said ‘Product of israel’ on a sticker, and not only that, but they’re grown on illegal settlements in the West Bank!
Of course they can sell whatever the hell they like in their stores but this is false advertising, and thats a big frigging No No! It seems they have form here as there have been similar reports of mislabelling in Belgium and France.
Not as bad as the ones from south America, seems that mot, if not all plantations are run by the drug cartells.
Diversing the portfolio
Sorry for the German, but the procedes from the 99ct Lidl Avocado on your morning toast goes to the drug lords.
I got some from Lidl the other week that were labelled South Africa (!)
Another annoying thing about buying fruits and vegetables on-line from these major retailers is that discounted items normally mean rotten items..
Fresh food is the only thing I still don’t buy online. Exactly because I expect that as well as the best before dates are almost reached when I receive it.
They are something I sometimes buy but feel I shouldn’t - and not because of Israel:
They just use so much water. A kilo requires 2000 litres of water.
Major supermarkets in the United Kingdom source avocados from Chile’s Petorca region, the country’s largest avocado-producing province. To meet demand, Petorcan plantations are installing illegal pipes and diverting water from rivers to irrigate their crops. That diverted water is leaving villages in the region in drought conditions.
Another Peruvian crop (which I refuse to buy) is Quinoa.
This was a major part of the diet of many Peruvians outside of towns but the massive demand for this "trendy, “superfood” meant that crops were exported instead of being eaten and the locals ended up having to buy pasta etc from abroad to eat.
The salination of rice paddy fields in Asia (which destroys them) for prawn farming is another thing…
A bit off-topic.