Comments on: Eat this! Guacamole, a singing sauce, on its day http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/11/04/eat-this-guacamole-a-singing-sauce-on-its-day/ Restaurants, Nightlife and More Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:47:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Leah A. Zeldes http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/11/04/eat-this-guacamole-a-singing-sauce-on-its-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1415 Leah A. Zeldes Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:43:28 +0000 http://blog.diningchicago.com/?p=3045#comment-1415 That's the appetizing (not!) theory put forward by author Connie Barlow in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465005519?ie=UTF8&tag=60666-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0465005519" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Ghosts of Evolution</a>." <img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=60666-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0465005519" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />My research did not go back to the Pleistocene, but somehow I doubt the giant sloths were mixing up guacamole! That’s the appetizing (not!) theory put forward by author Connie Barlow in “The Ghosts of Evolution.” My research did not go back to the Pleistocene, but somehow I doubt the giant sloths were mixing up guacamole!

]]> By: Leigh Hanlon http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/11/04/eat-this-guacamole-a-singing-sauce-on-its-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1413 Leigh Hanlon Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:44:10 +0000 http://blog.diningchicago.com/?p=3045#comment-1413 Has anybody identified the extinct giant sloth that apparently co-evolved to eat and then defecate and disperse the avocado pit? Reminds me of that great line from "Oh God!" when God is asked if he ever makes mistakes. "Yes," he replies. "Avocados. I made the pits too big!" Has anybody identified the extinct giant sloth that apparently co-evolved to eat and then defecate and disperse the avocado pit?

Reminds me of that great line from “Oh God!” when God is asked if he ever makes mistakes. “Yes,” he replies. “Avocados. I made the pits too big!”

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