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jessaustin on Jan 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quie...

Avocado hasn't been a "staple" in that sense. It's basically a condiment. The potato equivalent in Mexico would be nixtamal.

Otherwise, damn, it sucked to be Irish...

School-Cotton on Jan 8, 2018 [–]

For anyone in the thread whose Nahuatl is a little rusty, "nixtamal" means corn (after being processed in a particular way).

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