The breakdown of why avocado on toast costs so damn much

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May 29, 2017 – 11:32AM

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/the-breakdown-of-why-avocado-on-toast-costs-so-damn-much/news-story/c7cb3ab646d47322d7b0970d6f542d37

POOR old avocado is having a really rough time at the moment.

It’s apparently the reason millenials can’t afford a home deposit, and the avolatte phenomenon has been branded one of the stupidest food trends of all time. Which is fair, because drinking a latte out of an avocado skin is borderline insanity.

As we reported last week, the debate surrounding the link between avocado toast and mortgages has gone global, making Australia an international laughing stock.

Emma Jeffrey was one of many chefs around the country who modified their smashed avocado dishes for millennial penny-pinchers following articles about millennials and avocado on toast. Picture: Aaron FrancisSource:News Corp Australia

Time Magazine jumped on board with an avocado toast calculator (!) asking people to enter the details of their city and state to find out how many servings they’d have to skip to be able to afford a home.

“If you’re brunching in New York City or San Francisco, you could be looking at skipping roughly 10,000 and 21,000 avocado toast servings for a down payment, respectively,” wrote journalist David Johnson with amusement.

A journalist at Eater in San Francisco was so moved by the whole situation that she referred to smashed avo as “the devil on toast”.undefined

That journo, Ellen Fort continues, “somewhere along the way, the buttery fruit that is so deliciously slathered on toast got a real bad rap for being trendy, and expensive.”

But when you do the mathematical breakdown, is it really the avocado’s fault?

According to Tristan Chan, co-owner of Sticky Fingers Kitchen and Bar in Surry Hills, Sydney, the breakdown goes a little something like this: