Dallas Restaurants Bracing For Shortages After US Bans Mexican Avocado Imports

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

February 18, 2022

It’s a fruit so popular that in some parts of Mexico it’s called ‘green gold’ — avocados. Now a US ban on imports announced earlier this week could push prices to platinum levels– if consumers can find them at all.

“We have to have guacamole. That’s the number one thing,” explains Julian Rodarte, the ‘son’ in ‘Beto & Son’, a popular Mexican restaurant in Dallas’ Trinity Groves.

Rodarte calls avocados the ‘life blood’ of Mexican restaurants. “We make an avocado chimichurri. We use it in just about everything, whether it be a garnish, or a sauce or everybody’s favorite the guacamole!”

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