A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from February 12, 2021
“Avocados are fruits. Guacamole is avocado jam”

Guacamole is made with avocados. Some people have pointed out that an avocado is a fruit, so this means that guacamole is a jam. Jams are made with added sugar, however, and no one seriously considers guacamole to be a jam.
   
“If avocado is a fruit, is guacamole jam?” is an avocado saying that was posted on Twitter by iD Tech on October 25, 2010. “If an avocado is a fruit, does that mean that guacamole is technically jam?” was posted on Twitter on August 15, 2015. “If avocado is a fruit then gucamole is jam” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on August 27, 2017. “Avocados are fruits. Guacamole is avocado jam” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on February 12, 2021.
 
“If an avocado is a fruit, is guacamole a smoothie?” and “Since an avocado is a fruit, does that make guacamole a fruit salad?” are related avocado and guacamole sayings.
           
   
Wikipedia: Avocado
The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree, long thought to have originated in South Central Mexico, classified as a member of the flowering plant family Lauraceae. Recent archaeological research produced evidence that the avocado was present in Peru as long as 8,000 to 15,000 years ago. Avocado (also alligator pear) refers to the tree’s fruit, which is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed.
 
Wikipedia: Guacamole
Guacamole (Spanish: [wakaˈmole]; or [ɡwakaˈmole]; sometimes informally referred to as “guac” in North America) is an avocado-based dip, spread, or salad first developed by the Aztecs in what is now Mexico. In addition to its use in modern Mexican cuisine, it has become part of international and American cuisine as a dip, condiment and salad ingredient.
 
Wikipedia: Fruit preserves
Jam refers to a product made of whole fruit cut into pieces or crushed, then heated with water and sugar until it reaches “jelling” or “setting” point, achieved through the action of natural or added pectin, then sealed in containers.
   
Twitter
iD Tech
@iDTechCamps
If avocado is a fruit, is guacamole jam?
12:36 PM · Oct 25, 2010·TweetDeck
   
Twitter
CHER DIL
@uwahi
LOLDITTO RT @vandanaXverma: Guacamole by Avocado is my new jam #thisismyjam
2:46 AM · May 18, 2012·TweetDeck
 
Twitter
Alex‏
@alexpl0re
“if avocado is a fruit is guacamole a jam?” #shitsergiosays
12:08 AM - 20 Aug 2012
   
Twitter
Dave Burson
@VitamnD
“@UberFacts: An avocado is not just a fruit, it is also a berry.” So Guacamole is green jam?
@EmmaMcCormack20
6:16 AM · Nov 10, 2012·Twitter for iPhone
     
Twitter
Kaelin Jackson
@kayjax24
If an avocado is a botanically enlarged berry then guacamole is a jam @rnags13
@maura_snyder #twitterlessmaddie
10:43 AM · Jan 24, 2013·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
z apple strudel☭
@furbclit
Replying to @UberFacts
“@UberFacts: Avocados are technically berries.” so guacamole is like avocado jam
9:22 AM · Dec 6, 2013·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Emily
@emily_m_clarke
New Fact of the Day #232: Avocados are fruit. So does that mean that that guacamole is jam? http://tmblr.co/Ze_SHy1XNKWr1
10:06 PM · Dec 6, 2014·Tumblr
   
Twitter
pudge queen
@delaneskennedy
Apparently avocados are fruits, so guacamole is jam.
10:54 PM · Jan 23, 2015·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
leslie
@mushedroooms
Guacamole is just avocado jam
12:28 AM · Feb 19, 2015·Tweetbot for iΟS
 
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/nytemare99 March 7, 2015
If an avocado is actually a berry, wouldn’t that make guacamole a Jam?
COMMENTS
10gauge
More of a puree or marmalade, I would think.
 
Twitter
lexi‏
@cryintommo
“If an avocado is a fruit, does that mean that guacamole is technically jam?”
9:32 PM - 15 Aug 2015
 
Twitter
TheTroubledNeophyte‏
@TTrNeo
If Avocado is a fruit then is guacamole a jam?
9:48 AM - 21 Jan 2016
     
Twitter
Jillian Leedy
@jillianleedy
Did you know avocado is considered a fruit? More specifically: a single-seed berry?
So, does that make guacamole a type of jam or preserves?
5:15 PM · Mar 12, 2016·Twitter Web Client
   
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Jmitch_50 March 27, 2016
Since an Avocado is a fruit, does this mean Guacamole is a jam?
COMMENTS
kemla
jam is a preserve, so, unless your guacamole is like half sugar or drenched in preservatives… no.
   
Twitter
amelia cunningham‏
@melscunningham
“If avocado is a fruit, does that make guacamole jam?”
- @jossieh11
8:13 PM - 3 Oct 2016
     
Twitter
zahra
@zhashx
avocado is classified as a berry, which means guacamole is technically a jam
6:55 PM · Jan 3, 2017·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
tan‏
@SweetLilTanish
“if an avocado is a fruit… does that make guacamole jam?” @AidanWhibbs
12:42 PM - 22 Mar 2017
 
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted byu/numbers876 August 27, 2017
3 years ago
If avocado is a fruit then gucamole is jam
COMMENTS
citadelinn
Doesn’t jam have a lot of sugar and pectin added? Ugh. Avocado jam actually sounds terrible.
 
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Cube_11 March 19, 2019
Guacamole is jam. Avocado is fruit. Jam is made of blended fruit. Guacamole is made of blended avocado.
COMMENTS
Steve-too-aswell
Avocado is a botanical fruit. There are many things that botanic fruits that we do not eat.
Fruit is a botanical and culinary term. Avocado is not a culinary fruit.
Jam is a thick, stewed sauce thickened with pectin, tho there are some exceptions (bacon jam).
Apple sauce, and smoothies are blended fruit and aren’t jams.
 
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/xx_Chl_Chl_xx February 12, 2021
Avocados are fruits. Guacamole is avocado jam

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