"It all started in 2018, after the Fab Five's resident food-and-wine expert wowed a makeover recipient-or "hero," as they're called on the show-by showing him how to make guacamole. "My entire identity became that," Porowski tells me. "But I remember, it was Tom Jackson [in the very first episode] who mentioned when I cut a lime in half-he said, 'I've never seen the inside of a lime before.' I almost laughed in that moment, but he was being sincere.""
"As silly as it was for Porowski's avocado lesson to follow him throughout all ten seasons of Queer Eye, the moment ended up serving as the perfect metaphor for the show. As with many of the show's makeover guests who had never met an openly gay man in real life before-let alone five loud and proud ones tearing apart their homes-Porowski's job wasn't to teach them to tie up a roast chicken like Thomas Keller in ."
Antoni Porowski became closely associated with a viral avocado moment after teaching a makeover recipient how to make guacamole in 2018. A guest's surprise at seeing the inside of a lime underscored how many participants lacked prior exposure to openly gay men and new perspectives. The Fab Five focused on creating comfort and widening horizons rather than demonstrating elite techniques. Porowski shares that lesson with his culinary assistants and credits guidance from Ted Allen and earlier style guides. After eight years and 86 episodes, the experiment of empathetic, approachable makeovers proved a broad success.
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