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By *d4fun73 OP Man
over a year ago
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Is this really a thing for the millennials? Or media made up crap?. I'm thinking the later!
I do like avocado in a ham sandwich or on toast with a poached egg!
Do you have any other suggestions.... |
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It's very popular in certain cafes, but it's also as much a cultural stick to beat us with. Yes, the reason we can't afford housing isn't because of stagnating wages and rising housing costs, it's because of smashed avo. Give over  |
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar"
Popular in Australia too (hence "smashed avo") where (checking Woolworths versus Tesco) they're maybe half the price of the UK ($4AUD/kg for "odd"/ no comparison versus from 90c each/ 89p each). |
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar"
It’s not a California thing. It arrived in California by way of immigrants.
Throughout Latin America it is the food of impoverished people, which has now been glamourised and made into a trend of millennials.
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By *d4fun73 OP Man
over a year ago
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"OP as you enjoy avocado and poached egg on toast, why do you think avocado on toast is "made up media crap" ?"
Because it's usually in the context that millennials have no money for anything else... |
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar
It’s not a California thing. It arrived in California by way of immigrants.
Throughout Latin America it is the food of impoverished people, which has now been glamourised and made into a trend of millennials.
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Always the damn way. (I don't know how it arrived in Australia, far less of a Latin American influence in Australia than parts of the states) Quinoa was similar, wasn't it?
Cascara had a moment as well, although I've not seen that for awhile |
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"OP as you enjoy avocado and poached egg on toast, why do you think avocado on toast is "made up media crap" ?
Because it's usually in the context that millennials have no money for anything else..."
It's about as relevant as the idea that we're all still children.
Some of the babies of millennials are old enough to have babies. That needs to fucking die already. |
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"I like avocado but not mashed up on toast. Mashing it changes the texture and not for the better in my view"
I’m with you on this. Sliced, or diced avocado is nice. Mashed up, it makes me gag.
I once had avocado fries. The creamy, gooey texture of a heated mashed avovado formed into fries was  |
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By *d4fun73 OP Man
over a year ago
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar
It’s not a California thing. It arrived in California by way of immigrants.
Throughout Latin America it is the food of impoverished people, which has now been glamourised and made into a trend of millennials.
Always the damn way. (I don't know how it arrived in Australia, far less of a Latin American influence in Australia than parts of the states) Quinoa was similar, wasn't it?
Cascara had a moment as well, although I've not seen that for awhile"
In Peru they make a great dip with it loads of garlic in!
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Not just literally avocado on toast. Mash it up, add loads of salt, loads of pepper, some chilli, maybe a posched egg, and it's lovely. Nothing to do isth millennials, it's playing around with food and making it nice |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar
It’s not a California thing. It arrived in California by way of immigrants.
Throughout Latin America it is the food of impoverished people, which has now been glamourised and made into a trend of millennials.
Always the damn way. (I don't know how it arrived in Australia, far less of a Latin American influence in Australia than parts of the states) Quinoa was similar, wasn't it?
Cascara had a moment as well, although I've not seen that for awhile"
Quinoa was a ‘sacred’ food of the Incan. It became glamourised in the 90s as this super healthy superpower grain.
I am not surprised at the large influx of Latinos in Australia actually. Not saying they brought the avo toast there, as I don’t know that as a fact to state.
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar
It’s not a California thing. It arrived in California by way of immigrants.
Throughout Latin America it is the food of impoverished people, which has now been glamourised and made into a trend of millennials.
Always the damn way. (I don't know how it arrived in Australia, far less of a Latin American influence in Australia than parts of the states) Quinoa was similar, wasn't it?
Cascara had a moment as well, although I've not seen that for awhile
Quinoa was a ‘sacred’ food of the Incan. It became glamourised in the 90s as this super healthy superpower grain.
I am not surprised at the large influx of Latinos in Australia actually. Not saying they brought the avo toast there, as I don’t know that as a fact to state.
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I just accidentally found an article that says that it was introduced in 1840 into Sydney Botanical Gardens, but (at the time of the writing of the article, 1982) it was "relatively unknown" in Australia ()
Suggestions are central America or the Caribbean. I know from my own family history that there were Caribbean convicts sent to Australia around that time (including one of my ancestors), correlating with the ending of people as property in that region. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar
It’s not a California thing. It arrived in California by way of immigrants.
Throughout Latin America it is the food of impoverished people, which has now been glamourised and made into a trend of millennials.
Always the damn way. (I don't know how it arrived in Australia, far less of a Latin American influence in Australia than parts of the states) Quinoa was similar, wasn't it?
Cascara had a moment as well, although I've not seen that for awhile
Quinoa was a ‘sacred’ food of the Incan. It became glamourised in the 90s as this super healthy superpower grain.
I am not surprised at the large influx of Latinos in Australia actually. Not saying they brought the avo toast there, as I don’t know that as a fact to state.
I just accidentally found an article that says that it was introduced in 1840 into Sydney Botanical Gardens, but (at the time of the writing of the article, 1982) it was "relatively unknown" in Australia ()
Suggestions are central America or the Caribbean. I know from my own family history that there were Caribbean convicts sent to Australia around that time (including one of my ancestors), correlating with the ending of people as property in that region."
You’re not wrong.
Around that same time it would have been convicts from Belize in Central America based on the type of avocado it was. The scientific name is a type of avocado different than the Caribbean variety. Belize having ties to the U.K./Australia, it seems logical.
Sorry your ancestors had to endure being property. xx |
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"It’s a california thing. Which of course makes it all pervasive. In california you get 7 avocados for a dollar
It’s not a California thing. It arrived in California by way of immigrants.
Throughout Latin America it is the food of impoverished people, which has now been glamourised and made into a trend of millennials.
Always the damn way. (I don't know how it arrived in Australia, far less of a Latin American influence in Australia than parts of the states) Quinoa was similar, wasn't it?
Cascara had a moment as well, although I've not seen that for awhile
Quinoa was a ‘sacred’ food of the Incan. It became glamourised in the 90s as this super healthy superpower grain.
I am not surprised at the large influx of Latinos in Australia actually. Not saying they brought the avo toast there, as I don’t know that as a fact to state.
I just accidentally found an article that says that it was introduced in 1840 into Sydney Botanical Gardens, but (at the time of the writing of the article, 1982) it was "relatively unknown" in Australia ()
Suggestions are central America or the Caribbean. I know from my own family history that there were Caribbean convicts sent to Australia around that time (including one of my ancestors), correlating with the ending of people as property in that region.
You’re not wrong.
Around that same time it would have been convicts from Belize in Central America based on the type of avocado it was. The scientific name is a type of avocado different than the Caribbean variety. Belize having ties to the U.K./Australia, it seems logical.
Sorry your ancestors had to endure being property. xx"
Thank you. For me it's an interesting historical footnote, not something that affects me. I'd much rather focus on ongoing injustice - obviously the use of indigenous foods as fashion can have significant knock on effects for diets and economies that can't withstand them. |
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I saw a video once on that tiktok thing where a nutritionist offered up avocado on toast or a mcdonalds sausage and egg muffin. Said people making a conscious effort to eat a low cal diet to list weight would always choose the avocado on toast. In actual fact the muffin has less calories.... |
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It depends how much avocado on toast you eat! Two slices of toast with a whole avocado is about the same calories as the sausage/egg muffin but one slice of wholemeal toast with half an avocado is 180 v 274 for the McDonald's |
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"It depends how much avocado on toast you eat! Two slices of toast with a whole avocado is about the same calories as the sausage/egg muffin but one slice of wholemeal toast with half an avocado is 180 v 274 for the McDonald's"
A sausage and egg McMuffin has 423 calories.
It’s also has twice the saturated fat of an avocado .
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"I saw a video once on that tiktok thing where a nutritionist offered up avocado on toast or a mcdonalds sausage and egg muffin. Said people making a conscious effort to eat a low cal diet to list weight would always choose the avocado on toast. In actual fact the muffin has less calories.... "
I don't think a mcmuffin contains healthy fats though |
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"I saw a video once on that tiktok thing where a nutritionist offered up avocado on toast or a mcdonalds sausage and egg muffin. Said people making a conscious effort to eat a low cal diet to list weight would always choose the avocado on toast. In actual fact the muffin has less calories....
I don't think a mcmuffin contains healthy fats though "
Probably not, and as an overall thing then I'm sure the avocado is much better for you. And wgo would have just the muffin on its own anyway? By the time you've added the hashbrown you're well up on the calorie intake lol. |
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"It depends how much avocado on toast you eat! Two slices of toast with a whole avocado is about the same calories as the sausage/egg muffin but one slice of wholemeal toast with half an avocado is 180 v 274 for the McDonald's"
I bet for the test it was full on white bread with butter and all the bits added on. Personally don't like the same thing over and over for breakfast, healthy or not. Gets boring lol |
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It's delicious but just a tool to offend someone else - a way of attempting to drive a wedge between the boomer and ration card generations and newer generations who have more supermarket variety on offer.
I don't eat it often at all but love a poached egg on avocado toast, I just cba to poach eggs. |
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