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So this is the guy who caused my generation to be unable to afford houses
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If anyone bought avo on toast to the world it was that entitled fuck who said to stop buying if we wanted a house.
I never heard if him until this post and I'm Australian
I didn't even know about avocado toast until it was used as a joke. Then I tried it and holy shit it slaps.
Gimme dat good fats boi!
Avocados literally grow on trees.
Ok?
And money don't, so clearly avocados are better than money.
Thus dies the man who made home ownership impossible for millennials
/s
The man who singlehandedly stole all the bootstraps
How? Honest question, i have no idea who this is
Several years ago, some silver spooner said we would be able to buy homes if only we didn’t blow all our money on things like avocado toast.
I thought it was some nobody but apparently it was TIME Magazine.
Yikes I have given them far more credibility than they have deserved.
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Tis a joke, some banking person said millenials wouldn't be poor if they skipped avocado toast
Did he really though?
Sliced or mashed avocado has been eaten on some sort of bread, flatbread, or tortilla (often heated or toasted) since humans first started consuming bread and avocados, and before any documented or written history.
According to The Washington Post, chef Bill Granger may have been the first person to put avocado toast on a modern café menu in 1993 in Sydney,[9] although the dish is documented in Brisbane, Australia, as early as 1929
Do you deny that there has been a massive growth in the worldwide popularity of "avocado toast" in the past few decades?
Given the rise of the internet given the timeline (Chef since 1993).
There's been a massive growth of everything in popularity except maybe Nu Metal.
Did Strongbad invent comics? Because there's been massive growth since he did it.
I think “to the world” in this context means to a larger audience of people who had never heard of it before and didn’t live in a area where it was a common thing. So possibly yes. Or maybe no. Probably a shared effort either way.
since humans first started consuming bread and avocados, and before any documented or written history.
So how do we know if it's before documented history?
When you try to read the epic of gilgamesh and the first 5 pages describe how to pick ripe avocados smh
The story doesn't really work out? I mean if he started his first restaurant at 24 how could he have launched his chef career 3 decades after dropping out of art school?
Further if art school is supposed to be college level he barely even stayed alive long enough to live three decades post dropping out...
I thinks it's bad punctuation or grammar
He launched his three decade chef career after dropping out of Art school
That makes sense. But that is a really piss poor sentence.
Especially since it's literally "Who launched a chef's career over three decades after dropping out of art school"
That s on decades and "over" kills any ambiguity, but a comma after decades would make it passable, a semi colon and changing to "; after he dropped out of art school" would make it crystal clear.
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I hope when I grow up I can one day own an avocado of my very own!
Serving breakfast at one large communal table sounds like a cool idea actually.
The real treasure was the avocados we met along the way.
Guess its not that healthy
Oh it is, but it's an entry level drug. Soon you'll be deep frying snickers and slow cooking an entire pig.
Isnt deep fried mars bars a thing somewhere i think?
I'm pretty sure they're mandatory in Scotland.
Well if they eat enough of the fried mars bars, you can then roll them into the sauna and you have slow cooking pig
Mars bars aren't generally available in the US.
They are, they're just called milky ways
It's a milky way with a soft caramel layer, also the nougat is a bit different. Honestly they're better battered and deep fried, it's like it's wrapped in a pancake and melted. Maybe a corndog batter is similar - it looks similar - but I've never had one. Anyway you should never eat one because it's not food, it's poison with calories.
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Oh yeah, forgot about that! Changed "Midwest fairs" to "Scotland" 😁
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