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The Aztecs used avocados as a sexual stimulant.
European Sailors making the passage to the Americas knew
avocados as MIDSHIPMAN'S BUTTER because they liked to
spice up their shipboard provisions with a rich, guacamole-like
substance.
Early Americans once called the avocado an ALLIGATOR
PEAR because they could not pronounce the Spanish word for avocado,
"aguacate," which is a derivative of the Aztec word,
"ahuacatl."
Americans' use of the word avocado is a corruption
of the Spanish word "aguacate." The form AVOCADO was
first used by Sir Henry Sloane in 1669....
Source: California Avocado Commission |
