One could forgive a Californian for feeling a bit threatened by Florida. Whiter beaches and wetter t-shirts are hard enough to take. Losing Mickey Mouse is pure torture. Golden Staters, however, can still look down their lotion-coated noses at the elongate, Day-Glo fruit known as the Florida avocado. Unfortunately, the so-called “alligator pear” is as common as it is repulsive. Operating in vast regions of our nation, it masquerades as its creamier, tastier California cousin, the Hass, infiltrat...more