Guacamole versus just eating the avocado in slices?

I think avocados taste like soap, so I don't eat them.

This!

I thought i was the only one!!

I tend to avoid avocados (blood diamonds of Mexico, thanks Lily Ramirez-Foran) but my preference for avo toast was always somewhere between actual guac and just sliced avocados - roughly mash them with a good squazz of lime and plenty of salt, plus a bit of fresh chilli and coriander.

Genuine question, OP, I'm just curious - have you literally just started out cooking from scratch?

This. But with a few dashes of Tabasco and some finely chopped coriander.

Agree with you and I won't buy Mexican or South American

Moroccan are currently in season and available here

They're still a very unsustainable item overall, but fresh guacamole is delicious so I do buy them the odd time

Olive oil in guacamole. What kind of blasphemer are you???

You can buy Spanish avos in Dunnes in the organic section if you want guilt free avos

I'm not a fan of plain avocado but really like guacamole. The spicy smashed avocado in Lidl is lovely and only has avocado, lime juice, salt, red chili and chili flakes in it. They do a plain version also.

Also in Aldi is just plain cartons of resealable smashed Avocado which I find far more convenient and less wasteful than trying to trying to judge when they're ripe or not.

Yes someone else already mentioned the olive oil wasnt really supposed to be there. May well be the case. This is a recipe I picked up on youtube some time ago and it mentioned just a tiny dash and I just never messed with the recipe since it was lovely. I suppose the avocado is oily enough already. Must try without to see if there is a difference.

There's a massive difference between avocados that taste the way they should and avocados that aren't fit to be eaten. A lot of the ones in the supermarket might look ok and have the right texture but still be borderline inedible. When I hear that somebody doesn't like avocados I always wonder if they've never had a good one.

No, you can get lovely avocados in the supermarket. It's just that they are often indistinguishable from the ones that are inedible! I have the best luck with the hass avocados in Dunnes, but there's still a fairly high rate of attrition. One tip is to check and see if the little woody knob on the top pops off easily, it's a sign that it's approaching the right stage of ripeness.