Apparently cutting up delicious Avocados is fraught with danger as people around the world keep slicing their hands while trying to gain access to the increasingly expensive green gift from God.
UK surgeons are reporting a growing numbers of avocado-related hand injuries at emergency rooms, calling the stab and slash wounds from failed attempts to prepare food “avocado hand,” which can include serious nerve and tendon injuries.
In fact, the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons is calling for safety labels to warn people of the hidden dangers of avocado cutting.
“People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them. We don’t want to put people off the fruit but I think warning labels are an effective way of dealing with this. It needs to be recognisable. Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a big red cross going through it?” –Simon Eccles, Royal Society of Medicine, UK
Eccles notes that at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, he treats about four patients a week with avocado hand, and staff at St Thomas’ Hospital, in London report a “post-brunch surge” on Saturdays.
And it’s not just morons in the UK! Retards around the world are apparently cutting themselves in droves. Actress Meryl Streep was photographed with a bandaged hand in 2012 after self-harming in pursuit of the elusive avocado meat, and according to The Times, over 300 people in New Zealand have sued for compensation from avocado injuries in the last five years.
Per The Times:
David Shewring, vice-president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, told The Times: “Recently the health benefits of avocado have been advocated, with an increase in their popularity — and a consequent increase in related injuries.”
He outlined the “correct” technique for de-stoning: “Wrap the avocado in a towel leaving the pip exposed. Carefully use the edge of a heavy sharp knife to chop into the summit of the soft pip, so that it is slightly buried. Holding the knife, so that the pip is stabilised, use a towel to twist the pip out.”
Or just cut it carefully without slicing into your hand and quit trying to be a samurai when you bury your knife into the pit to remove it.
Stay safe out there…
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Build that wall.
Are they suing the Avocado tree ?
Sweet jumping Jesus.
Where is froggy with the usual political hack bullshit?
Simply give all libtards one knife and one avocado. Sharpness is irrelevant. Problem solved.
If it will save just one child, it is worth it?