[Ads-l] antdating guacamole

[Bill Mullins]

OED has 1920 for guacamole.  Barry Popik has 1894.

_Springfield [VT] Reporter_ 25 Sep 1891 p 2 col 3.

"The famous aguacate, known here as the alligator pear, is really no fruit, but a vegetable, eatable only as a salad "guacamole," and of the daintiest. . . New Orleans Picayune"

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