I tried to eat an avocado once. From its shape and form I figured it was in the same class of fruit as say a mango, so I tried to eat it like one. Sliced one in half and grabbed a spoon. Big stone in the middle, but mangoes have a seed too so whatever.
Firstly, it didn't really taste like anything. Maybe it was kinda sweet if I squinted my tongue really hard, but otherwise it was just...blah, like having a spoonful of straight margarine or something. And then while chewing on a somewhat hard-to-carve-out piece, I discovered wood.
Like seriously - there was only a very small visual difference, but portions of the avocado had the consistency and toughness of actual wood, and I couldn't chew it. And like a significant portion of the avocado was this way, and you couldn't just like carve the woody parts out and avoid them because they were like strings or roots, they spread out through much of the fruit. Like what the heck is this? If you eat a piece of a mango....or a melon, or a cantaloupe or a honeydew or whatever the heck - and you find a part of it that's not quite as ripe as the rest, it's less sweet certainly and maybe a LITTLE tougher than the rest of the fruit, but it's still freaking edible.
Never again.
