[Ads-l] antedating guacamole

[Bill Mullins]

The cite below is quoted from the New Orleans paper. I originally searched it for "guacamole", and did not find it (in Genealogybank), but just today looked for "alligator pear" and was able to locate it (slightly antedating the previous cite).  The quote is exact, so the verbiage is the same, but the citation details are as follows:


New Orleans LA  _Daily Picayune_ 9 Aug 1891, p 13 col 4



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Subject: antdating guacamole

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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