avocado toast

Millennial breakfast cliché

Avocado toast is sliced bread topped with mashed or sliced avocado, often with added seasonings, eggs, or other toppings.

The dish became a brunch staple in the 2010s and a symbol of millennial spending habits, frequently invoked in debates about young people's financial priorities: Maybe if you stopped buying avocado toast, you could afford a house.

Opposites
generational/cultural symbolism

avocado toasthome ownership

Holding title to residence

meat and potatoes · bacon and eggs · retirement savings · TV dinner · 401k contributions

food trend status

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Browned bread with spread

cereal · oatmeal · scrambled eggs · instant oatmeal · Pop-Tarts

economic symbolism

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Instant Japanese noodle soup

instant noodles · rice and beans · PB&J · packed lunch · leftovers

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G