Commission Predicts Super Bowl Winner in Guacamole Taste-Test; Board Picked Winner Five Out of Last Six Years; Hopes to Make This One Six Out of Seven.Business Editors SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 Who would believe you could predict a Super Bowl winner from a guacamole dip? The California Avocado Commission's record for picking a champion this way is really quite impressive. During last week's AvoBowl VII, the Commission's board of directors correctly predicted that the Tennessee Titans would upset Jacksonville and head to Atlanta for Super Bowl XXXIV Super Bowl XXXIV was the 34th championship game of the modern National Football League (NFL). The game was played on January 30, 2000, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, following the 1999 regular season. . The board is now looking to Sunday's game at the Georgia Dome Atlanta Falcons • • [ to add another notch to its belt. &uot;We have an awesome record for being able to predict a winner,&uot; said avocado grower Charley Wolk, who serves as the Commission chairman. &uot;We've been consistent in picking a Super Bowl winner for so many consecutive years, that this year we decided to increase the odds to choose from the four teams heading to the Conference Championship Games rather than from two,&uot; Wolk said. The board has correctly predicted a Super Bowl victor in five of the last six years by taste-testing the Super Bowl teams' guacamole recipes and deciding which one had the better dip. Each year the Commission hosts AvoBowl, a taste-off of the specially created guacamole recipes for each competing Super Bowl team. AvoBowl was created to celebrate the eight million pounds, or 16 million avocados, eaten on game day -- mostly in the form of guacamole. Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest consumption day of the year for California avocados. Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo (Spanish; “Fifth of May”) Mexican holiday commemorating the Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862. The French army, better-equipped and far larger than the Mexican army, had been sent by Napoleon III to conquer Mexico. is the first. The recipes from each of the four teams are available on the Commission's Web site at www.avocado.org/recipes. But it was the &uot;Tennessee Tailgate A conversion layer that lets IDE devices connect to the IEEE 1394 Firewire interface. Guacamole,&uot; a special guacamole recipe with fresh lime, chopped red and yellow bell peppers, Italian parsley Noun 1. Italian parsley - a variety of parsley having flat leaves flat-leaf parsley, Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum parsley, Petroselinum crispum - annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves , crumbled blue cheese, garlic salt Noun 1. garlic salt - ground dried garlic and salt flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning, seasoner - something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts and red pepper sauce, that was selected as the recipe from the team to triumph this Sunday. Maybe, it was the blue cheese that did it. &uot;The recipe definitely has a special kick,&uot; Wolk said. The California Avocado Commission, a non-profit organization created in 1977, is the official information source for California avocados and the $328 million California avocado industry. California is the number one producer of California avocados and home to 95 percent of the nation's crop. |
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