Property News · May 16, 2017

Stop spending money on avocados? Good idea, I’ll have a house deposit by 2117 | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett


Another privileged baby boomer has decided that millennials can’t afford to buy a home because of our crippling brunch habit. Where to start …To read newspaper headlines, you’d think that millennials had invented the avocado. Apparently this expensive fruit (usually “smashed” on toast, with a variety of garnishes) is all we eat – if we even eat it at all, rather than just ordering it and snapping it for our Instagram feeds, before chucking it on top of the ever-increasing food waste mountain, for which we are also to blame. The fetishisation of the avocado has now reached such an apex that avocado-specific bars are opening in London and New York, which also, coincidentally, happen to be the spiritual homes of the worst of all millennials – those of us with the audacity to live in expensive cities despite not being rich.Avocado-related injuries are on the rise. There are reports of a global avocado shortage. Soon, a manbun-sporting tech startup intern named Lennon will report that, while drinking a negroni in Shoreditch House and discussing LCD Soundsystem’s new song, he became the first human in the western world to turn green. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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