WE ALL know avocados are a superfood, but this is probably taking things a little too far.
A man in Chile this week purchased a brand new mobile phone using several bags of the hipster-friendly savoury fruit.
In Chile there's currently a major shortage of avocados, with prices rocketing to more than 5,000 pesos (US$8) per kilogram in street markets.
Supermarket group Ripley has leveraged the strong interest in the issue by displaying the "equivalent price in avocados" for some sale items - including a tongue-in-cheek sale of a Motorola smartphone which was listed as either 189,990 pesos or 58kg of the superfood.
A social media personality known as "El Weon de las Paltas" (The Avocado Guy) found the offer too enticing to pass up, arriving at the store with the required avocado supplies which he successfully used to purchase the new X4 smartphone (below).
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