ABC Affiliate in Hot Water(melon) Over Weird Guacamole Tweet

This seems like a set-up. It seems like a deliberate ploy to generate attention and headlines. It seems like we’ve played this game before. Still, for some reason, reading that Southern California’s ABC 7 thinks guacamole and watermelon go together is so shocking that we feel compelled to play right into their hand and broadcast this… this… obscenity.

Watermelon: The secret ingredient to the best guacamole. Happy National Watermelon Day! https://t.co/GVhxx3B15L pic.twitter.com/v9Q3pzDMZI

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 3, 2016

They seem so flippant but at the same time, so self-assured.

Disgusting. Outrageous. Bizarre. Well, that’s what people seem to be saying, anyway:

@laurenduca @ABC7 WOW

— Ella Cerón (@ellaceron) August 3, 2016

Watermelon in…guacamole…I just…I’m so offended by the very idea.

— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) August 3, 2016

This is way worse than the pea debacle https://t.co/74D4EwNEfr

— Angela Lashbrook (@lemonsand) August 3, 2016

This is a culinary felony. https://t.co/BVLveZFLlA

— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) August 3, 2016

I hate white people RT @ABC7: Watermelon: The secret ingredient to the best guacamole. Happy National Watermelon Day pic.twitter.com/cI76HjaKcW

— We Miss You Harambe (@AmaSan25) August 3, 2016

An increasingly jaded nation wonders: What will be the next “it” vegetable to tweet a link to an article about putting in guacamole

— Gabriel Roth (@gabrielroth) August 3, 2016

“You know what’s wrong with guacamole?”
“It tastes good?”
“Yes. Let’s fix that.” https://t.co/1VCqI2Clft

— Kashana (@kashanacauley) August 3, 2016

.@ABC7 pic.twitter.com/NTJFCRXSI5

— Joe Fox (@joemfox) August 3, 2016

.@ABC7 pic.twitter.com/vo15YMB7DZ

— ✨Maiya (@CincoDeMaiya) August 3, 2016

This is the sort of thing that can bring real unity to the people of America. Maybe that’s what ABC 7 was secretly going for.

[image via Twitter]

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