It seems the onward march of the humble avocado is unstoppable.
Earlier this month we had news of the hawaiian avocado "as big as my head" vying for a place inside the file books.
Now marks and spencer is the first supermarket to sell a seedless cocktail avocado - which can help keep away from all those pesky avocado-related accidents.
"avocado hand" is outwardly the bane of many middle class kitchens, prompting claims that the fruit need to carry caution labels.
Main plastic general practitioner simon eccles has said he treats about four patients every week at chelsea and westminster sanatorium for knife wounds because of reducing into the fruit.
However that shouldn't be a trouble with the brand new arrival at the cabinets.
Cocktail avocados are about 5-to-8 centimetres lengthy, with an edible pores and skin and flesh which m&s describes as "clean and creamy".
They are grown in spain, and are the end result of unpollinated avocado blossom.
The fruit is "best to be had all through december, when typically it's miles despatched to a parisian grocery store and bought through chefs to be used in pinnacle-cease eating places. This yr m&s has been able to source a small variety of the avocados solely," the grocery store says.
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Last 12 months, m&s introduced us mini and massive avocados.
And, of direction, the ones folks with lengthy recollections, will remember the fact that it become m&s which first introduced avocados to the United Kingdom public returned in 1968 as an "avocado pear", which humans could consume with custard.
"charlotte curtis, m&s agronomist, says: "we've had the mini, the large, prepared-sliced and we are now launching the holy grail of avocados - stoneless."
There are "about" five in a packet weighing 250g and costing £2. A regular avocado costs £1.30 in m&s in the mean time.
What we don't know is how many of the cocktail variety you may need in your smashed avocado on sourdough toast.
This is not just any avocado - it's a stoneless avocado.
So, the proof of the cocktail avocado is, as they are saying, within the consuming.
It seems like a gherkin, muses one colleague as i geared up myself for the last sacrifice.
And he's right, it does, however as i chunk into it, it has all of the creaminess of an everyday ripe avocado.
To begin with, i am now not so positive about the safe to eat skin. It's actually thin sufficient and gentle sufficient - my enamel sink directly via.
But it appears to detract a chunk from the creaminess - maybe a mild flavor of bitterness that i do not associate with avocado.
Clearly, though, as i chomp my way down, i get greater used to it. And you could constantly peel it, of direction.
