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?
I never understood the whole stupidity of gatekeeping someone else’s fucking food anyway.
But, it’s only been three years since the little cafe here in Podunk started offering it. Five bucks, two pieces of rye bread, avocado with garlic and onion, a poached egg. Super simple, very cheap, and fucking delicious. That’s actually less than you can get per dish if you buy your own supplies because avocados are expensive here (3 bucks each is average).
Mind you, you can dial in your own for taste, so it’s still better homemade.
Which is a long way of saying that I think it was something that started in a few cities somewhere. When I was seeing people bitch about avocado toast, it was hipsters that were being bitched about, not millennials. That’s going back maybe ten years or so? Not sure when the bitching started for sure, or where, but i was seeing it online back around when I got married, and we hit ten years this year.
Tbh, I never saw any pattern of a given generation doing all the whining either, it was from people of multiple generations. I mean, yeah, most of the hipster douches spamming pics of the stuff on instagram were millennials, but that’s a consequence of hipsters being of that generation, so the douchey ones were too.
The only place I noticed older generations doing the bitching was on facebook when my mom would spam shit to my email that she thought was hilarious. But again, facebook was shifting to an older user base at that point.