A British retailer is selling seedless avocados because people don't know how to cut open avocados

Stoneless avocado.
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A high-end British retailer is offering its customers an unusual and perhaps unnecessary luxury: seedless avocados. The Guardian reported Thursday that the retailer Marks & Spencer believes that the seedless "cocktail avocado" will reduce the risk of people hurting themselves while cutting open the fruits.

Scoff if you must, but apparently "avocado hand" is such a prevalent problem in the U.K. that the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons thinks that the avocados need safety labels. One plastic surgeon even told the BBC that he treats about four patients a week at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for avocado-related mishaps, most of which occur when hapless knife-wielders attempt to remove the fruit's pit.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.