new project::l'avocat

in the baby stages of a new project highlighting all of the places we love to eat drink and be merry here in our own backyard. along the way i came across this nugget of truth (paraphrased by me):

Apparently, during a two millenia-long game of Telephone, the Aztec word ahuácatl, meaning testicles because of their shape, was hijacked by the Spanish invaders and became abogado. When these little crocodile pears were shipped back to Europe, they were anglicized to avocados and then avocat in French. Their original etymology was lost in translation. To the Europeans, l'avocat meant the advocate - a new meaning for the mystifying fruit was born.

and such, the path that leads us here is rarely that of which we expect.