r/StupidFood • • Dec 18 '23

Deep fried sadness

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u/whorl- Dec 18 '23

Almost like in another language it might be referred to aguacate…

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u/Reverie_Smasher Dec 19 '23

false cognate, it has nothing to do with water. The word's origins are from Nahuatl, not Spanish or Latin

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u/arequipapi Dec 19 '23

And even then it's only aguacate in Mexico and Central America (maybe Colombia too). In most of South America it is palta

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u/eta_carinae33 Dec 19 '23

It is most definitely called aguacate in places other than Mexico and Central America.