--- ---  # 'Holy Lack of Guacamole.' Stephen Colbert Gives Us a Chilling Glimpse of an America Without Avocados ## Video: Why You Should Eat More Avocado [Watch (HLS stream): Why You Should Eat More Avocado](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dWdExSxc.m3u8) (1:03)  _Published 2017-04-13. Here is some very good news for guacamole lovers everywhere: A new review of scientific literature suggests that eating avocado may help prevent metabolic syndrome_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 3, 2019 3:02 PM UTC  Avocados are on display during the opening day of the "Fruit Logistica" trade fair in Berlin on February 8, 2017\. The fair on the fresh food produce business and the latest innovations, products and services in the international supply chain is running until February 10, 2017\. / AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images) Avocados are on display during the opening day of the "Fruit Logistica" trade fair in Berlin on February 8, 2017\. The fair on the fresh food produce business and the latest innovations, products and services in the international supply chain is running until February 10, 2017\. / AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)TOBIAS SCHWARZ—AFP/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 3, 2019 3:02 PM UTC President Donald Trump [has been threatening](http://time.com/5563366/trump-health-care-border-pivot/) to close off the border between Mexico and the United States in response to migrants and asylum seekers. While the implications for the nation’s immigration policy would be dramatic as well as the impact on five million American manufacturing jobs, one “issue” has really captured national attention: America’s steady supply of [avocados](http://time.com/4832655/avocado-american-history/) could be at risk. “Holy lack-of-[guacamole](http://time.com/5373190/is-guacamole-healthy-experts/),” Stephen Colbert said on Monday night’s [episode of _The Late Show_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dZNl0xhFAg&feature=youtu.be). “What are we supposed to put on our toast now? Jelly? You go to Concord Grape hell, old man.” Colbert wasn’t done with the subject, though. On Tuesday night’s episode, _The Late Show_ unveiled a trailer for a new movie that paints a bleak picture of an avocado-less America. In _Mad Guac: The Avocado Warrior_, “renegade gangs of health conscious millennials roam the landscape looking for green gold”. It’s a dismal glimpse of the all too possible, very near future. While late night jokes about an avocado shortage, Americans eat more fresh avocados (7.5 pounds) per capita each year than they do peaches, pears, plums, prunes and nectarines combined, [_The Washington Post_ reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/business/2019/04/02/how-us-mexico-border-dispute-could-make-avocadostoast/?nid=menu%5Fnav%5Faccessibilityforscreenreader&outputType=accessibility&utm%5Fterm=.894a5851cda2), adding that avocados make up 6 percent of the amount of fresh fruit the average American eats in a given year. When word of Trump’s threat spread, the price of Mexican Hass avocados [jumped 34 percent](http://time.com/5563175/mexico-avocado-price-trump-border-threat/) on Tuesday. 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