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Every time I don't buy avocado toast, I buy something else to eat. I don't see how avoiding it helps to save money? And, that stupid picture. For $8, I get T

Every time I don't buy avocado toast, I buy something else to eat. I don't see how avoiding it helps to save money? And, that stupid picture. For $8, I get TWO slices, each a LARGE piece of (organic whole-wheat) bread, with additional veggies and a nut spread, from some upscale vegan place in downtown Boston no less. If you're getting a tiny slice of Wonderbread with half an avocado on it like the article's picture suggests, of course you're getting ripped off.

cakedoggie 9y ago
The idea is you buy something cheaper, or have cereal. That way you save money, and have more money to put towards a house.
- colanderman 9y ago
  If the argument was "millenials eat out too much", that they are spending $8/meal×3 meals/day×365 days/year = $8760/year eating out, it would be an interesting article. But the article is entirely about "avocado toast", a meal that, while popular, is not eaten more than once per week even by any millenial I know. Saving $8/meal×1 meal/week×52 weeks/year = $416/year is so laughably far from helping save for the down payment of a home, especially in a market where avocado toast is popular, like Boston, where it would take 100 years. The article is vapid. It could be summed up as "get off my lawn" but because the author of this content-free piece is somehow employed by the New Yorker, he found it necessary to wrap it in a dozen paragraphs of purple prose.
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Untit1ed 9y ago
The original tweet that started the whole avocado thing was arguing that millenials should be eating a $2-4 avocado at home rather than paying $14 for it at a cafe. Of course, if you share a tiny apartment that's probably not such a pleasant way to catch up with your friends, but what does he care, he's already got a house.
ice109 9y ago
> TWO slices do you know how much a slice of bread costs?
- colanderman 9y ago
  ...The second slice also has avocado on it. As in, $4 per avocado toast slice. Not $8 as the article would have you think.

cakedoggie 9y ago

The idea is you buy something cheaper, or have cereal. That way you save money, and have more money to put towards a house.

colanderman 9y ago
If the argument was "millenials eat out too much", that they are spending $8/meal×3 meals/day×365 days/year = $8760/year eating out, it would be an interesting article. But the article is entirely about "avocado toast", a meal that, while popular, is not eaten more than once per week even by any millenial I know. Saving $8/meal×1 meal/week×52 weeks/year = $416/year is so laughably far from helping save for the down payment of a home, especially in a market where avocado toast is popular, like Boston, where it would take 100 years. The article is vapid. It could be summed up as "get off my lawn" but because the author of this content-free piece is somehow employed by the New Yorker, he found it necessary to wrap it in a dozen paragraphs of purple prose.

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Untit1ed 9y ago

The original tweet that started the whole avocado thing was arguing that millenials should be eating a $2-4 avocado at home rather than paying $14 for it at a cafe. Of course, if you share a tiny apartment that's probably not such a pleasant way to catch up with your friends, but what does he care, he's already got a house.

ice109 9y ago

> TWO slices do you know how much a slice of bread costs?

colanderman 9y ago
...The second slice also has avocado on it. As in, $4 per avocado toast slice. Not $8 as the article would have you think.