Submitted by jk137jk t3_y92yuq in philadelphia
I went and grabbed a dozen avocados from FDR yesterday. I’m not kidding that every single one was covered in white mold and completely browned on the inside.
Don’t waste your time driving down there and waiting in a 15 minute line. It’s not worth it!!! Hopefully some of y’all got some better avocados than me.
They said the avocados were at all stages of ripeness. They got something like 300-400,000 of them. I can't imagine they looked at all of them. All of the pics I saw looked like good avocados. Not trying to be a dick, just saying maybe don't write off the free avocados entirely.
I got a bag and they were definitely underripe but otherwise good ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Wow too bougie for some moldy cados
I just ran into a colleague holding an avocado and asked if she's gotten it at the park yesterday. She looked at me like I was nuts and said "no, I got it from Whole Foods" and then I had to explain this entire thing so she wouldn't think I was in the habit of foraging trash from parks or something.
I would have gotten away with it too!!
I may have just been there for a bad patch of them. Figured I’d warn those hiking down to South Philly before they waste their day.
I envy you. I threw away 11 avocados. Hoping my 1 ripe one will come through.
More like guacaMOLDY 😏
What time did you get them? Per this article, mostly moldy ones were left later in the day. And wow, they gave away 300k in less than 3 hours.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/avocado-free-giveaway-fdr-park-philadelphia-20221019.html
>Those who got there past 3 p.m. were met with heartbreak and an overcast sky. There were some moldy avocados left, but volunteers discouraged grabbing those. “I may come back tomorrow,” said South Philly resident Crystal Rose. She found some avocados that were edible — they had some moldy stems but were good on the inside— but she’s hoping to grab more for her breakfast.
Out of the loop: why are there so many free avocados available?
Apparently farmers had a huge surplus they couldn't sell
Jesus was handing them out
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I've heard from multiple people that they were given ones that aren't even ripe yet
I got some as well and they were all very fresh and hard to eat. A little fuzziness on the stems but I wash them all off and they are good to go. Definitely have heard some bad ones around. Definitely hit or miss and I'd say people shouldn't be afraid to say these ones are bad.
If it wasn't for you meddling kids!
if i understand correctly, mexico usually ships avocados to the US but they weren't exporting as many last year so peru stepped in the capture the market.
now peru has a fuckton of excess and can't move them all due to the way grocery contracts work. so they're trying to get rid of them in huge numbers at this point.
Got mine yesterday and they're hard as a rock, which hopefully means I'll have time to come up with enough recipes to use them in
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The ones I got also have moldy stems. Can I even eat those?
Yeah just wash them off with water before cutting. Hopefully your’s are nice and green inside.
Well I did get there later in the day, so that’s on me. So come early, or you’ll be left with the scraps.
Psh! You pAy for your avacados? Wellllll.
Y’all think this will be true tomorrow? Maybe get there early I guess?
Mine were perfect
FDR park just posted that the organizers giving away avocados have run out of them and won’t be giving any more away. Sorry. I got a case gifted to me from a friend and they look perfect
You could have just bought some at the grocery store and saved gas.
Hahahaha
Who needs gas when you have a bike?
An adage as old as time.
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Waiting on the lawsuit, ad said a free avocado for every Philadelphian, apparently not true.
gigaham216 t1_it382ep wrote
This guy just wants to get the rest of the avocados for himself