How to eat: avocado toast — theguardian.com

Fittingly for a fruit whose original Nahuatl name, āhuacatl, also means testicle, there has been some right old balls written recently about avocados and, specifically, How to Eat’s subject this month, avocado toast. This brunch favourite of upwardly mobile, trendy young urbanites – for argument’s sake, let’s call them hipsters – has become a prism of anger through which many (older) people see a world they no longer understand. Columnists and wealthy entrepreneurs have railed against supposedly skint millennials frivolously spending £9 on brunch, drawing harrumphing support from the kind of people who get unreasonably upset about the abbreviation “avo toast” and how we don’t have national service any more.

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