• aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It continues to astonish me that avocado toast has become the symbol for excess of millenials. How is wanting to eat bread and vegetables considered to be a luxury?

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      2 years ago

      Not your average vegetable, mind you:

      Avocado trees bear one of the most resource-intensive fruits under wide cultivation, with each avocado fruit requiring 70 litres (18 US gallons; 15 imperial gallons) of water to grow

      Also:

      As a subtropical species, avocados need a climate without frost and with little wind. High winds reduce the humidity, dehydrate the flowers, and affect pollination. When even a mild frost occurs, premature fruit drop may occur

      ... in the midst of our current ongoing man-made mass-extinction, many of those foods we grow that are highly vulnerable to early frost / unstable weather (which, I suspect, is most of them) will go the way of the dodo, for some of them possibly as soon as the upcoming decade.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Plus an avocado is like a dollar. How many good breakfasts can you get with a vegetable on them for like a 1.10$?

      • hahafuck [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Maybe if you buy them on the side of the road. Most grocery stores avocados are like more than double that. But they are really talking about avocado toast from like a café or breakfast chain, like with lattés 10 years prior