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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by jessaustin on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:02PM (#16099841)
Avocado hasn't been a "staple" in that sense. It's basically a condiment. The potato equivalent in Mexico would be nixtamal.

Otherwise, damn, it sucked to be Irish...

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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by umanwizard on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:36PM (#16100832)
For anyone in the thread whose Nahuatl is a little rusty, "nixtamal" means corn (after being processed in a particular way).
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