• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    I always think it’s funny how millennials got shit for avocado toast, yet it was my boomer parents who introduced it to me.

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      14 days ago

      when I was a boy (GenX), avocados were so cheap, they almost gave them away

      my mom complained one time when they were 25c

      one of my friends that grew up in California had a tree in his back yard and he never purchased one until he moved to Washington State in his 20s

      The fact that it became a target for attacking millennials is so crazy. That people took it seriously for a bit is laughable. To this day my wife and I make jokes that it costs a new mortgage to have one.

      • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml
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        14 days ago

        My brother worked at an avocado packing plant and he would bring me a BOX of ripe avocados that were too ripe to send to market.

        We had to eat those NOW. All the FREE avocados I can eat. Good times.

      • TrenchcoatFullOfBats@belfry.rip
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        13 days ago

        We had an avocado tree in the backyard growing up. It was so large that it hung quite a ways over the roof, which had terracotta shingles.

        If we didn’t pull the ripe avocados off the tree it would sound like a small bomb going off every time one dropped and hit the roof, which usually happened early in the morning for some reason.