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Re:Why America Now Eats a Crazy Number of Avocados by arp242 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:40PM (#43548846)
All these superlatives ("voracious appetite", "devours", "conquering America", "dazzling", "crazy number") in the first few paragraphs alone make it sound like an Apple announcement or something.

Also, the "9 pounds of avocados a year" is about 27 avocados/year, or about one avocado every two weeks. Sounds a lot less spectacular. Of course, what we really need to know is many Olympic swimming pools all those avocados would fill.

Re:Why America Now Eats a Crazy Number of Avocados by Animats on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:03PM (#43549741)
> All these superlatives ("voracious appetite", "devours", "conquering America", "dazzling", "crazy number")

Yes, which is why this looks like an ad or planted story.