Trio charged with $300,000 avocado theft

[brooklynite]

BBC News:

Few foodstuffs arouse passions like the humble avocado.

Depending who you ask, the gnarly green fruit is the vitamin-laden hero of brunch - or the reason millennials can't buy houses.

Back in May, a surge in global demand sent avocado prices to a record high.

And police say this may have driven three California men to steal up to $300,000 (£234,770) worth of them from an Oxnard produce firm where they worked.

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Wait till the wall gets built...

[underpants]

1. Grand Theft Avacado

[KingCharlemagne]

4. No fair when I have coffee in my mouth! - nt

[L. Coyote]

5. Those guys were in the green for a while.

I'm one of the reasons the price stays high, I love my avocados.

Link to tweet

[Renew Deal]

2. Holy Guacamole

[malaise]

14. Too good

[KingCharlemagne]

3. Holy Guacamole! (Sorry, just couldn't resist! :) - nt

[L. Coyote]

7. Great minds of DU.

Link to tweet

[malaise]

13. Pinboy3niner would be proud of you

Most excellent

[Orrex]

6. Wait... $300K is Avocado's number?

I suspect a mole.

[Persisted]

11. Nicely done. nt

[Not Ruth]

8. There is a new meal called avocado toast

It sells for about $7-10. The ingredients are a slice of bread and an avocado. About a 1000% markup. Popularity is making avocados unsustainable.

[Dream Girl]

15. Add some chopped bacon for $3 extra. yum!

[DFW]

9. Had me for a moment there.

At first I thought there was an avocado worth $300,000.

I wouldn't pay 3¢ for one of the things, and wouldn't eat one even if offered $3000 to do it.

I have always agreed with my dad, and thought they taste like soap.

[brooklynite]

10. Add a little lime juice and salt and they taste great...sort of like lime juice and salt.

[DFW]

18. I have a better use for lime juice

Sauté some thinly sliced garlic cloves and fresh ginger in olive oil, add in drained large sea scallops and sauté them in the garlic and ginger, and then squeeze the lime juice over them just before serving over brown or wild rice.

It takes a little longer and requires more work, but eliminates the soap factor.

[Mosby]

22. Have you had one recently?

If you tried one years ago it was probably a fuerte, their flavor and texture is very inferior to the hass.

[DFW]

23. Only as add-ins to sushi

My stance as to their taste remains one of "Hass," which is the German word for "hate."

[KingCharlemagne]

26. Pinche DFW :) - nt

[Persisted]

12. I miss pinboy on threads like this. nt

[Dream Girl]

16. It was a brilliant plan until they all went brown three days later.

[Lucinda]

17. LOL

[Vinca]

21. That was my thought. What a dumb thing to steal.

[Takket]

19. $300,000? so that is what, about 10 avacados?

[Jim Beard]

25. Thats more than I thought, more along the estimate of 3....$100,000 each.

[lpbk2713]

20. Witnesses yelled at the perps as they left the scene of the theft ...

HEY! Those are nacho avocados!

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. Note well, children. This is what guacamole addiction leads to. nt