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Old 01-12-2016, 01:10 AM   #42
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
Let's say the supermarket has a second pallet of avocados that are all guaranteed to be fresh and are USDA certified as organic. They cost a bit more, but, hey, they're better quality. You can hunt through the first pallet, if you don't mind handling rotten avocados, and maybe find some decent ones, or you can quickly grab a handful from the second pallet and get down to the business of eating.
I already pointed out that case:

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Well, to fine-tune the analogy, I think shopper #2 probably complained that he would never buy from that store again -- he would only buy from the boutique store over in the city -- a store which only carries pedigree avocados *purported* to be guaranteed 100% ripe.

Of course, even that store had its misses. But when that happened, the store manager told him with a smile that these were special avocados and you are supposed to eat them that way.
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