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January 30 2012

I had planned on posting my own personal guacamole recipe, but when Holly’s IRON FIST guacamole turned out to be so close to mine (just without the cumin), so I decided maybe it would be worth reviewing a few store bought guacamoles for the Football Foodie readership who might be in a hurry on Super Bowl Sunday, or worse, pinned underneath a car or a fallen tree and unable to use half of their body for guacamole making since pitting an avocado really is a two-armed endeavor, or at least a bit easier with two arms. I’m sure people with one arm make great guacamole, but if you’re newly stuck under a car or a tree, you may not be in the right state of mind for making guacamole. Then a funny thing happened. I couldn’t bring myself to buy pre-made guacamole. I looked at the bags of guacamole puree at Trader Joe’s, the vacuum-sealed bags at my neighborhood Gelson’s, the plastic containers filled with green-ish goo in the refrigerated section at my little corner market. I read all the ingredients and they all looked okay; avocados, garlic, spices, jalapeno, lime, and yet, there was nothing appealing about any of them. See, I’ve had store bought guacamole and really, they’re not bad, but they’re not really good either, they’re just sort of tasteless. There is very little flavor left in the avocados by the time they get to your home, their richness long since given away to the citrus they’ve been cured with, their greenness left merely to act as a vessel for transporting jalapeno and making sure tortilla chips aren’t seen naked at the party. Even the best homemade guacamole loses its zip over a couple of days, no matter how tightly you pack it up. I was staring glassy-eyed at a package of “spicy” guacamole at the store when Bry reminded me, “Hey, doesn’t Trader Joe’s sell little kits to make guacamole with? Why not make that?” Hope! yes! Guacamole in a package, but you still have to assemble it! Maybe this won’t be so bad! Plus, for $3.99 you’re getting much more than the 6-8 ounces of guacamole in all of the pre-packaged deals! Let’s try that! Store Bought Guacamole? Super Bowl Guacamole Extravaganza Investigative Report over on the mothership.

I had planned on posting my own personal guacamole recipe, but when Holly’s IRON FIST guacamole turned out to be so close to mine (just without the cumin), so I decided maybe it would be worth reviewing a few store bought guacamoles for the Football Foodie readership who might be in a hurry on Super Bowl Sunday, or worse, pinned underneath a car or a fallen tree and unable to use half of their body for guacamole making since pitting an avocado really is a two-armed endeavor, or at least a bit easier with two arms. I’m sure people with one arm make great guacamole, but if you’re newly stuck under a car or a tree, you may not be in the right state of mind for making guacamole.

Then a funny thing happened. I couldn’t bring myself to buy pre-made guacamole. I looked at the bags of guacamole puree at Trader Joe’s, the vacuum-sealed bags at my neighborhood Gelson’s, the plastic containers filled with green-ish goo in the refrigerated section at my little corner market. I read all the ingredients and they all looked okay; avocados, garlic, spices, jalapeno, lime, and yet, there was nothing appealing about any of them. See, I’ve had store bought guacamole and really, they’re not bad, but they’re not really good either, they’re just sort of tasteless. There is very little flavor left in the avocados by the time they get to your home, their richness long since given away to the citrus they’ve been cured with, their greenness left merely to act as a vessel for transporting jalapeno and making sure tortilla chips aren’t seen naked at the party. Even the best homemade guacamole loses its zip over a couple of days, no matter how tightly you pack it up.

I was staring glassy-eyed at a package of “spicy” guacamole at the store when Bry reminded me, “Hey, doesn’t Trader Joe’s sell little kits to make guacamole with? Why not make that?”

Hope! yes! Guacamole in a package, but you still have to assemble it! Maybe this won’t be so bad! Plus, for $3.99 you’re getting much more than the 6-8 ounces of guacamole in all of the pre-packaged deals! Let’s try that!

Store Bought Guacamole? Super Bowl Guacamole Extravaganza Investigative Report over on the mothership.

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