Has a foodstuff ever been in need of some good PR more than the poor, beleaguered avocado? The brunch favourite never seems to be out of the papers. But, much like a #MeToo-adjacent male celebrity accused of making questionable comments to female colleagues, it’s never for positive reasons.
The latest shots fired came from an unlikely source when TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh took aim in a letter to The Times. Writing in response to a recent warning from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents about the dangers of so-called “avocado hand” – injuries sustained while using a sharp knife to dig out the stone or separate the flesh from the skin – the presenter stated that “There is a simple solution to avoiding injury when removing the stone from an avocado: don’t eat them.”
