Numlock News: February 7, 2022 • Avocados, Baby Names, Space Station
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Avocado, Baby The price of a 9-kilogram box of Hass avocados from Michoacan hit 540 pesos ($26.23) on Thursday, the single most expensive price on record for this time of year. Looking back over the same week of prior years — the week before the Super Bowl; that is, premium time for consumption of guacamole — last year a 9-kilogram box cost 410 pesos, and 10 years ago it cost just 170 pesos. There are not fears of shortages, and the shipments of avocado are plentiful — a new region of Mexico, Jalisco, just got approval to export to the United States; it’s in large part to growing demand. Per-capita annual guacamole consumption hit 9 pounds in 2020, and is projected to hit 11 pounds of guac per person. Per-sitting guacamole consumption remains steady, at “always all of the guacamole, there is never any remaining.”
Numlock News: February 7, 2022 • Avocados, Baby Names, Space Station
Numlock News: February 7, 2022 • Avocados…
Numlock News: February 7, 2022 • Avocados, Baby Names, Space Station
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Avocado, Baby The price of a 9-kilogram box of Hass avocados from Michoacan hit 540 pesos ($26.23) on Thursday, the single most expensive price on record for this time of year. Looking back over the same week of prior years — the week before the Super Bowl; that is, premium time for consumption of guacamole — last year a 9-kilogram box cost 410 pesos, and 10 years ago it cost just 170 pesos. There are not fears of shortages, and the shipments of avocado are plentiful — a new region of Mexico, Jalisco, just got approval to export to the United States; it’s in large part to growing demand. Per-capita annual guacamole consumption hit 9 pounds in 2020, and is projected to hit 11 pounds of guac per person. Per-sitting guacamole consumption remains steady, at “always all of the guacamole, there is never any remaining.”