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Regarding Avocado Toast

We’ve all heard the stupid meme. “Millennials would have more money if they didn’t order so much avocado toast!”

But when was the first time you can honestly say you saw avocado toast on a menu? I’m a millennial, live in a town of about 500k, and I didn’t see avocado toast at any restaurant until like 2 years ago? Wellll after the meme came out.

Was it a boomer psyop to get millennials hankering for some avocado toast, and then poof! it’s on the menu after critical media saturation of millennial’s obsession with it?

xep ,

It's not even that good, I'd take a nice BLT over it any day of the week.

marine_mustang ,

Jan 4, 2010. Air date for an episode of Good Eats with this avocado toast recipe.

altonbrown.com/…/avocado-toast-with-sardines/

gazter ,

Aussie reporting in. I can’t recall the last cafe that I went to that did not have avocado on toast, in some form, on the menu.

SkippingRelax ,

And the cunt that started the whole stop eating avo on toast if you want to buy a house is also Aussie.

Confirm you can get avo on toast everywhere in Oz. And it’s overpriced af, though I haven’t been out to cafes since before covid so I’ll leave it to others to provide up to date data.

gazter ,

I’ve paid anywhere from five bucks to get Madge at the corner shop to smear some vaguely avocado looking goop onto burnt white bread, to twenty bucks for gobs of perfectly ripe avo on artisanal sourdough with lemon myrtle dressing, garnished with some kind of deep fried flower and a bit of grass on top to look pretty.

Zeppo ,
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I saw it a lot at hipster coffee shop/breakfast places 4-5 years ago, but not nearly to the extent old people seemed to think.

pelespirit , (edited )
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This is me trying to be helpful, it was covered in know your meme pretty well here: knowyourmeme.com/memes/avocado-toast

The term became a popular reference and in-joke for millennials after an article about millionaire Tim Gurner featured a quote from him saying he got rich by saving and not spending money on frivolous things such as avocado toast.

Edit: I don’t think Gurner is a boomer judging by his pic. I can’t find an age on him.

Edit: This page says he was born in 1982, so he’s a gen x, I think. He’s around 41 or 42. latestbollyholly.com/tim-gurner-wikipedia-age/

over_clox ,

Did you know that only 23% of social media users know how to sharpen a pencil? It’s true, because I pull facts out of my ass.

Anyways, can confirm, I’m 41 years old.

pelespirit ,
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Way to blame it on the boomers Tim, we don’t even get credit for the bad things.

PunnyName ,

That’s definitely elder millennial.

themeatbridge ,

Also definitely 41 because math.

squiblet ,
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That's late for Gen X, right on the edge of Millenial. Some people call '77-83 Gen Y or Xennials.

pelespirit ,
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Thanks for explaining it. I tend to forget the dates easily because I have great friends in all generations.

squiblet ,
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It makes sense to me because I fall in that range and have noticed I have more in common with Millennials than Gen X, but still feel distinct from the two.

shalafi ,

Yep, ONE guy said it and the internet acts like it’s a common phrase with all old people.

pelespirit ,
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The one guy being in his 30s at the time, lol

nightofmichelinstars ,

The first person who said probably lived in a city and then it was repeated by people who thought it was funny. I live in a city and avocado toast has been readily accessible for a long time. It’s expense but not disproportionately so.

ManosTheHandsOfFate ,
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Yeah, I was seeing it 10+ years ago in Chicago.

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