HOUSTON – If you love avocados, but hate the possibility that you could slice your hand trying to take out the pit, take comfort in the knowledge that seedless avocados are a real thing.
British retail chain Marks and Spencer posted a photo of the avocados on its Instagram page.
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The post now has more than 15,000 likes – probably because British people can look forward to safer fruit slicing in the future.
San Diego-based wholesaler Specialty Produce explains the lack of seed is “simply the result of an unpollinated avocado blossom.”
So when will the limited-supply “cocktail avocados” be coming to the U.S.? There’s no word on that, but there is word on what they taste like.
A New York Post writer who had to go to four different Marks and Spencer stores to find the pickle-sized avocados remarked that the taste “isn’t quite the same.”
“The cocktail avocados are lighter, more watery and a bit sweeter and fruitier than their larger cousins,” the taste tester wrote. “The skin is supposedly edible, but it’s so bitter, I almost spit it out.”
The taste-tester advised avocado lovers to stick with the larger pit version and brush up on your knife skills, writing, “Americans shouldn't be jealous of the UK’s tiny fruits.”
Would you try the pit-less avocados? Let us know what you think in the comments.