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Jack White boycotts venue because they leaked his secret guacamole recipe

by Mark Teo

Everyone has their secrets. Maybe you’re running away from your past, and that’s how you ended up living beside Gary Glitter on a houseboat in Thailand. Maybe you accidentally murdered someone with a hammer and, not knowing what to do with the grisly remains, set them on fire. Maybe you’re not who your friends—or your family—think you are. Or maybe you’re Jack White, and you just happen to have a bangin’ guacamole recipe.

OK, calling the recipe “amazing” may be a stretch. Dude doesn’t even have any garlic in his guac! Either way, White is absolutely irate after the Oklahoma Daily student newspaper leaked his rider, and, in the process, his contract and tour rider. On that rider? His beloved (and very intricate) guacamole recipe.

Here’s how it—which Consequence of Sound is reporting as “100 per cent true—went down. Citing the Freedom of Information Act, the Daily published his contract, which had several intimate details: White was paid $80,000 for the show, requested that no bananas be on premise, and a plain steak. Pretty standard rock-star fare, no?

But then, the rider dedicated a full page to a guacamole recipe. In it, he request chunky guacamole complete with avocado pits. And his secret ingredient? No, it’s not garlic, like any sane recipe. It’s four Serrano Peppers in an eight-avocado guac.

Here’s the full page below.

We also weren’t kidding when we said White was irate—he’s downright cwanky. After the rider leaked, he announced that he’d be boycotting shows at University of Oklahoma, and his agency, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, has blacklisted the school for all its clients. Guacamole is serious business, friends.