I know I tend to get outraged about what seems to be minor things…
But come on!
There was a foodsaver commercial and it irritated me so bad. Like, you have this machine that uses rolls of plastic bags that you cut to the size you want so you can vacuum seal your foods to prevent waste. So if you buy in bulk or you go hunting or fishing you can save and freeze all that meat.
Good idea. Especially if they can come up with biodegradable bags. Which they haven’t yet.
Right now, the machine uses plastic bags, and everyone knows that plastic isn’t good for the environment. (Don’t get me started on the evils of the potato chip industry and their non-recyclable bags.) But if you want to save your meats for longer than a year or two in the freezer, the only real at-home option is vacuum sealing it.
So the commercial shows the guy gleefully creating single-portions of vacuum sealed meat. Which, by itself, is a little irritating, but I guess understandable.
Then he vacuum seals half of an avocado.
WTF dude???
I get that people at home are going to do wasteful shit like that. It’s a given.
The same way someone’s freezer is going to fail and they’re going to toss half a ton of vacuum sealed meat into a dumpster somewhere. Which will create a NIGHTMARE for some poor garbage handlers.
But making a commercial that purposefully shows someone vacuum sealing half an avocado? Really dudes? Really???
For one thing, avocados are not that precious. Eat that half an avocado tomorrow. Buy new avocados two years from now. Or if you’re worried the end of the world is going to happen and the only thing that’s going to save you from starving is that half an avocado… Maybe it’s time to start growing your own avocado tree. (I think you need two of them to actually get fruit.)
Like, that half an avocado is not only wasting plastic, it’s taking up room in the freezer and every day you keep it is costing you dollars and cents of electricity which eventually adds up to the point that you could have just bought yourself a new avocado.
For reals, that whole “saving you money!” slogan was just the topping on the soft serve shit ice cream that commercial was serving.
Do you really only eat half an avocado at a time? Then get yourself an avocado saver.
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The one shown is just half an avocado put face down into the contraption and strapped in place. Eat that half within a couple of days and there’s no waste. You can use the avocado saver multiple times.
And sure, it too is made out of plastic, which is, by its very nature, bad for the environment, but you’re going to use that thing multiple times versus a bag you’re going to size to half an avocado and then discard. Cost/benefit analysis, my friends.
Something you can use for years versus something you use once and throw into a landfill.
Or if you wanted to be really cool for the environment, get a glass container with an airtight lid. As long as you leave the pit in the avocado half, it won’t immediately start rotting and you can eat it a day or two later.
Eat avocados. They’re delicious and healthy. But don’t use a love for avocados as an excuse to destroy the world.
There just comes a point where people have to get a grip. And just avoca-don’t do that.
Pax,
~HarperWCK
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