The name comes from the Spanish word "aguacate," which, in turn, is derived from the Mexican word "ahuacatl." Avocado was originally called “alligator pear,” after an Irishman in 1696 called i ...

The avocado's phallic outline has not gone unnoticed over the centuries with the Aztecs dubbing the fruit tree "ahuacatl" or "testicle tree". These tasty starters are high in vitamin b6 ...

So important was the small but mighty protein-packed avocado that the Aztecs called it ahuacatl, or "testicle." And when they mashed it to make guacamole, they did it right, tossing in tomatoes ...

Then in the 1500's, the newly arrived Spanish saw how much the Aztecs, who were the Indigenous people of South America, liked avocados or ahuacatl and wanted to find out what all the fuss was about.