Oct 22, 2026 · 1 min
Scott Evans discovers guacamole starts with the ingredients
The Guacs
A small Los Angeles grocery misunderstanding becomes a sharply observed story about unfamiliar routines and making do.
- 1Scott Evans searches for prepared guacamole after moving to Los Angeles.
- 2A store employee redirects him toward avocados, cilantro, lemons, and limes.
- 3The anecdote turns an ordinary produce-aisle mix-up into an animated story.
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Scott Evans realizes the prepared guacamole he is seeking is not waiting in the produce aisle; he must assemble it from ingredients.
The brief
After moving to Los Angeles, Scott Evans heads to the produce aisle looking for prepared guacamole and finds the search unexpectedly complicated.
The mix-up turns on a basic assumption: Evans expects guacamole to be ready-made, while the store employee points him toward the ingredients.
Avocados, cilantro, lemons, and limes become the clues that reveal the grocery-store misunderstanding and give the story its comic shape.
Presented as an animated installment of “The Greatest Stories Never Seen,” the anecdote turns a routine shopping trip into a memorable visual story.
The episode’s lasting joke is simple: in Los Angeles, Evans discovers that finding guacamole can mean making it yourself.
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