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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (54422)	2/21/2006 5:45:26 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Water taste. Frankly, I always think of avocados as oily.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (54422)	2/21/2006 7:31:14 PM
From: FiveFour	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

fwiw, I believe the correct spanish word for avocado to be "palta" and that "aguacate" is a word from Mexico/Central America and has indigenous roots. South American's seem to have no idea what an "aguacate" is. edit: now see it was already discussed.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (54422)	2/21/2006 9:56:08 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

For $200 and a chance to enter the final jeopardy round, why do Cubans call it a "fruta bomba" rather than a "papaya."

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (54422)	2/21/2006 10:24:22 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

from Nahuatl "ahuacatl" WORD HISTORY The history of avocado takes us back to the Aztecs and their language, Nahuatl, which contained the word ahuacatl meaning both “fruit of the avocado tree” and “testicle.” The word ahuacatl was compounded with others, as in ahuacamolli, meaning “avocado soup or sauce,” from which the Spanish-Mexican word guacamole derives. In trying to pronounce ahuacatl, the Spanish who found the fruit and its Nahuatl name in Mexico came up with aguacate, but other Spanish speakers substituted the form avocado for the Nahuatl word because ahuacatl sounded like the early Spanish word avocado (now abogado), meaning “lawyer.” In borrowing the Spanish avocado, first recorded in English in 1697 in the compound avogato pear (with a spelling that probably reflects Spanish pronunciation), we have lost some traces of the more interesting Nahuatl word. answers.com