Avocado has become one the most used and abused words in the millennial lexicon – a true cultural marker that has defined a generation of hashtag faithfuls and brunching die-hards.
Like everything in life, what we love most often comes with great risk. “Avocado-hand” is currently taking the hands of millennials everywhere keen to include the lauded green spread into their meals.
Secretary and former president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, Simon Eccles (yep, that’s a mouthful of a job position) has said he sees “four patients a week” with “avocado hand” this is a “serious cut to the hand procured while attempting to remove the pit or peel from an avocado”
Don’t think its a serious problem? Suss the #avocadoinjury tag on Instagram. Here’s a preview.
“People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them,” Eccles told The Times
From stunting millennials ability to buy homes to sending them straight to the emergency room – what damage could the humble avo pose next?
“I had to go to the [emergency room] and get three stitches and I have lost most of the sensation in my finger,” Freya Watson, a 29-year-old TV producer in London.
Watch out, kids.
