What demographic was least likely to be injured? Males under the age of 17 (at .9%).
Also the demographic least likely to “get” vegetables?
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We don’t eat avocadoes in the summer, we eat local produce, and they don’t grow up here…
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In our house, we call the 14" knife “the murder weapon”.
We should probably stop calling it that… 
This does emphasize, though, that the times for its use are relatively infrequent.
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…because you don’t need to murder as many people as you thought you would when you bought it?
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…let alone prepare them!
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oops…i had to click before i realized you weren’t replying to “murder people”
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You will shortly. I saw on the news a couple of days ago that a new variety of giant avocados are coming. The plants are being sold as fast as they can be propagated.
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I’m not sufficiently caffeinated but weren’t they originally larger and eaten by giant sloths that shat out the stones to propagate them?
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Hmm. Interesting. All of the giant avocados I’ve had are disgusting, but those sound intriguing. I’ll try one if I ever see them here in the US.
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I didn’t get to read all the references, but there’s no evidence that sloths ever ate avocados.
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Well yeah, anyone can see that their claws make it impossible to hold a knife. 
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Like bananas, avocados are only perfectly ripe for 15 minutes. If you keep an eye on your avocados and can feel when they’re ripe (slight give when you gently squeeze them), you can put them in the fridge and they’ll stay exactly that ripe for several days.
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The fools!
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Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence (there is no crossed arms emoji)
Yeah but if anyone is going to keep promoting the “avocados evolved to be eaten by giant sloths” theory they’d ideally want to at least have evidence that the two species existed in the same place at the same time.
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Almost any story that involves a thing evolving to suit another thing tend to come from our annoying desire to anthropomorphize things that are far more complicated…
Also,TBH, I can’t imagine the sloths not crunching up the seed too.
Animals presumably wouldn’t because the seeds are toxic. Actually the pulp has some toxins too, enough to be dangerous to smaller animals, and they should be kept away from pets. Which was part of the argument they might have been built to be dispersed by megafauna instead – not necessarily sloths, the 2000 book also suggested things like gomphotheres but they happen to be less famous – along with a general lack of modern dispersers besides humans.
I’m kind of disappointed the video doesn’t make any mention of this, because it leaves the problem of how avocados ended up that way before people got hold of them unacknowledged. 
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Seems like they had the teeth for not crushing avocado seeds, I’m surprised that primates and animals of the porcine persuasion wouldn’t eat them or are they small enough to suffer effects?
Is the avocado we know super selected (I’m sure it is somewhat), like the modern banana?
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