>What was the avocado toast of the boomer generation?
Avocado toast was the avocado toast of the boomer generation. Millenials did not invent the concept of putting avocado on a piece of bread.
>if that were the case mcdonalds wouldn't exist
It is the case. No one likes fast food. All anyone does is b***h about how low-quality and bad it is. That's all anyone has ever done my entire life. People don't eat it because they like it, they CONSOOM it because it's convenient. Fast food's success is owed entirely to successfully marketing to children and lazy parents, especially McDonalds.
Americans can't comprehend the concept of cooking. To them eating home-cooked meals is something exceptional and strange. The idea of making your own coffee and spreading avocado over toast yourself bewilders American urbanites far too domesticated and accustomed to the service economy.
The idea that this meme took off at all is infuriating
>You can't afford a house? It's not because they're 10x more expensive while your salary is just 5% more than the average was a generation ago, it's because you... uh... have too much avocados on your toast! Those are real expensive you know.
The meme was never about putting avocadoes on toast, it was about paying someone $20 to toast bread and spread avocado on that toast and then serve it to you. What's ridiculed is consuming the service, not the product.
The meme was literally about millennials supposedly being too willing to spend money on frivolous things instead of saving for a home. The guy who said it was literally saying that millennials could afford houses if they stopped buying frivolous things like coffee and smashed avocado. It had nothing to do with critiquing consumerism, except by the most tangential of connections.
None of that changes the fact that the dipshit who said it got money from daddy to start his business and that even if someone was paying $20 a day to order avocado on toast, then the $600 they save a month would have taken them 32 years to save up the money to purchase a house at the median value of $235,000 in 2017 when the moron said his stupid shit. Even if you wanted to save up the virtually necessary 20% down to get a loan as a first time buyer, it was still going to take someone living with literally no comfort expenses at all 6.5 years to save up the $47,000. And then you add to those facts the fact that minimum wage in the 1970's and even through the early 1980's was enough to buy a fricking house, people didn't have to deal with the horseshit of credit scores, and school was easily affordable meaning it was that much easier to make more money on top of it all.
And to this day, there's still fricking morons who see this shit and think, "No, avocado dude had a point!"
>saving $600 a month doesn't matter
My entire mortgage payment, including property tax escrow, is only $640. My wife's pregnancy cravings probably accounted for an entire orchard of avocados but we bought them at the grocery store and smashed them ourselves, just like we brew our own coffee, and magically we're homeowners. Avocado dude had a point, sorry you weren't ready to listen.
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My mortgage payment is 3x yours, in Detroit. Avocado toast would do nothing
"Ordering the avocado toast" isn't a cheap consumer goods, that's buying bread and avocadoes at the market. "Ordering the avocado toast" is a luxury service and you can absolutely save a down payment for a house by cutting that shit out, I did it myself.
Millenial homeowner here. I inherited my house from boomer family members who retired innawoods. Surely there are enough children out there that at the very least have parents or even grandparents that do own a home to pass onto them right? If your parents sold the family home (which according to Twitter users every family had before the year 2000) then it sounds to me its more like you were just unlucky enough to have a moronic family that couldn't even be bothered to make biannual property tax payments ontime and had to take out mortgages to pay off debt they got themselves into.
I was unlucky enough that I had to buy a flat. If I had to buy a house it would be near a freeway about 70 miles from a medium city.
My parents moved back to India after making it so I got screwed just like white people. My dad sits in a mansion in India and I live in a tiny flat in Michigan. I hate it.
>Left America because the money you made in the USA could buy you a mansion in a third world shithole
So I'm putting your family into the "moronic" category then
You're a 1st generation immigrant, you were never apart of this debate, and I notice a lot of immigrant families do that shit. Drop their kids off in America to "make it" and then frick off back to their homeland to because its cheaper to retire there and then they wonder why people here hate immigrants. People like OP are talking about whites with boomer parents who were actually born here. No offense.
Look up reverse mortgages, boomers sell their houses to the bank then blow all their money on cruises after retirement so they leave their children with nothing. I've seen older people literally say that the inheritance tax is so high that they just won't bother leaving an inheritance at all. Literally the most narcissist, selfish generation in human history.
Boomers were the first really fatherless generation, whose best male father figures all got wiped out in Eisenhower's meatshield rushes in Normandy and Belgium.
By the time they were old enough to get higher education, American academia was already infested by nepotistic marxist cultist hivemind who emigrated from Europe decades earlier, so it was very easy to poison their minds with cosmopolitanism and self-hatred.
They never really had a chance.
The boomer cohort coincided with the rise of hyperconsoomerism, but the decades long economic bubble meant they could have their avocado toast and eat it, while stripmining resources and wealth from future generations.
Boomer generation is not the same thing as boomer means now, their generation did not have avocado toast. They did butter toast with processed cinnamon which is not a very high quality cinnamon it mostly for flavoring of deserts. Or toaster strudels. Otherwise they just had buttered toast.
>Boomer generation is not the same thing as boomer means now
Well, "boomer now" seems to mean elder Millennial or Gen X. I'm under 40 and a homeowner. I didn't get to be a homeowner by paying $20 to be served $1.15 worth of food. That makes me a boomer apparently.
"Ordering the avocado toast" isn't a cheap consumer goods, that's buying bread and avocadoes at the market. "Ordering the avocado toast" is a luxury service and you can absolutely save a down payment for a house by cutting that shit out, I did it myself.
Well, maybe you can't now, but up until early 2020 you could. I bought my first home in 2018.
>What was the avocado toast of the boomer generation
Lawn care. I've never seen a generation so obsessed and also waste so much time, energy, and resources on grass. Absolute morons, I fricking hate all my boomer neighbors and their front lawn. You can even see the difference every 4th or 5th house has sprinklers and Mexicans there 4 times a week working on the front yard. Those are boomer houses. The millennials and gen x both just let the lawn be, maybe get it cut every 2 weeks, Maybe some dandelions pop up, nobody but boomers care so much about green grass.
My folks spent a lot of energy and time on their lawn but they basically ground covered and zero scaped it so much that it would both look better than the neighbors and they wouldn't have to cut the grass. Smart move IMO
Boomers spent an astonishing amount of money on completely worthless and ugly crap like 'collectible' figurines or cups or plates, which were often showcased in glass cabinets. If you look at popular magazines like Reader's Digest from the 1970's, they are full of ads for subscription services for this kind of junk. For $29.99/month, you would be mailed a new box of crap along with a couple holiday specials. And 'certificates of authenticity,' so that everyone will know that you own actual verified worthless garbage, rather than knockoff garbage.
>For $29.99/month, you would be mailed a new box of crap along with a couple holiday specials
We still have subscription services, half of youtube lives and dies by their sponsorships.
Boomers tended to buy shitty mass market "sports cars" the moment they reached middle management level in their 30s. It will spend most of its life sitting in a garage doing frickall, while the Boomer makes monthly payments on it for reasons he cannot fully explain.
Because of a meme of someone who paid $25 or some such outrageous sum to have avocado toast delivered to them, and went on social media to complain that the avocado wasn't smeared right.
Keeping the TV on all the time even if they're not listening to it, just like a low murmur that is constantly echoing. Max boomer points if it's Fox News. You go to visit them, you sit around on the couch in the living room as the TV plays but nobody is watching, it's just talking at a hum... "murmurmurmur it's terrible what is happening to our country ... yada yoo murmurmurmur ... back to Jesse Waters ... thanks murmur... murmurmurmur."
>What was the avocado toast of the boomer generation?
Avocado toast was the avocado toast of the boomer generation. Millenials did not invent the concept of putting avocado on a piece of bread.
Why does anyone need to order this at all. Get some sourdough, avocado spread, and a toaster oven and you'll save money.
You'll enjoy the big Mac more.
roast beef is like 10$/lb now.
so is a McDicks value meal
>avocado spread
bro the avocado is already spreadable, paying someone to convert it to a spread for you is antithetical to your own message
Damn you got me.
>a plain loaf of bread and cheese is gonna be enjoyed more than a bigmac with fries and coke
if that were the case mcdonalds wouldn't exist
>if that were the case mcdonalds wouldn't exist
It is the case. No one likes fast food. All anyone does is b***h about how low-quality and bad it is. That's all anyone has ever done my entire life. People don't eat it because they like it, they CONSOOM it because it's convenient. Fast food's success is owed entirely to successfully marketing to children and lazy parents, especially McDonalds.
Americans can't comprehend the concept of cooking. To them eating home-cooked meals is something exceptional and strange. The idea of making your own coffee and spreading avocado over toast yourself bewilders American urbanites far too domesticated and accustomed to the service economy.
TOTAL BOOMER DEATH
The idea that this meme took off at all is infuriating
>You can't afford a house? It's not because they're 10x more expensive while your salary is just 5% more than the average was a generation ago, it's because you... uh... have too much avocados on your toast! Those are real expensive you know.
The meme was never about putting avocadoes on toast, it was about paying someone $20 to toast bread and spread avocado on that toast and then serve it to you. What's ridiculed is consuming the service, not the product.
The meme was literally about millennials supposedly being too willing to spend money on frivolous things instead of saving for a home. The guy who said it was literally saying that millennials could afford houses if they stopped buying frivolous things like coffee and smashed avocado. It had nothing to do with critiquing consumerism, except by the most tangential of connections.
None of that changes the fact that the dipshit who said it got money from daddy to start his business and that even if someone was paying $20 a day to order avocado on toast, then the $600 they save a month would have taken them 32 years to save up the money to purchase a house at the median value of $235,000 in 2017 when the moron said his stupid shit. Even if you wanted to save up the virtually necessary 20% down to get a loan as a first time buyer, it was still going to take someone living with literally no comfort expenses at all 6.5 years to save up the $47,000. And then you add to those facts the fact that minimum wage in the 1970's and even through the early 1980's was enough to buy a fricking house, people didn't have to deal with the horseshit of credit scores, and school was easily affordable meaning it was that much easier to make more money on top of it all.
And to this day, there's still fricking morons who see this shit and think, "No, avocado dude had a point!"
>saving $600 a month doesn't matter
My entire mortgage payment, including property tax escrow, is only $640. My wife's pregnancy cravings probably accounted for an entire orchard of avocados but we bought them at the grocery store and smashed them ourselves, just like we brew our own coffee, and magically we're homeowners. Avocado dude had a point, sorry you weren't ready to listen.
My mortgage payment is 3x yours, in Detroit. Avocado toast would do nothing
So downsize, relocate, or increase revenue.
And how long have you had your home?
About four and a half years.
Cope
>32 years
You mean two years longer than a normal mortgage lmao
And even with zero down you can get a USDA mortgage.
The idea that you could somehow scrape together enough money to put a down payment on a house just by forgoing cheap consumer goods is laughable.
"Ordering the avocado toast" isn't a cheap consumer goods, that's buying bread and avocadoes at the market. "Ordering the avocado toast" is a luxury service and you can absolutely save a down payment for a house by cutting that shit out, I did it myself.
Tobacco. It's crazy how much boomers smoked back in the day.
I could be remembering something wrong but I'm pretty sure my mother said her high school had a smoke pit for older grades, pretty wild.
Tobacco was an extremely cheap drug before governments realized how addicted people were and thus how much money they could make.
Millenial homeowner here. I inherited my house from boomer family members who retired innawoods. Surely there are enough children out there that at the very least have parents or even grandparents that do own a home to pass onto them right? If your parents sold the family home (which according to Twitter users every family had before the year 2000) then it sounds to me its more like you were just unlucky enough to have a moronic family that couldn't even be bothered to make biannual property tax payments ontime and had to take out mortgages to pay off debt they got themselves into.
I was unlucky enough that I had to buy a flat. If I had to buy a house it would be near a freeway about 70 miles from a medium city.
My parents moved back to India after making it so I got screwed just like white people. My dad sits in a mansion in India and I live in a tiny flat in Michigan. I hate it.
What city, if you don't mind saying?
Detroit
>Left America because the money you made in the USA could buy you a mansion in a third world shithole
So I'm putting your family into the "moronic" category then
You're a 1st generation immigrant, you were never apart of this debate, and I notice a lot of immigrant families do that shit. Drop their kids off in America to "make it" and then frick off back to their homeland to because its cheaper to retire there and then they wonder why people here hate immigrants. People like OP are talking about whites with boomer parents who were actually born here. No offense.
Wouldn't you drop your kid in America to make it and go back to your country because you pay less taxes?
Look up reverse mortgages, boomers sell their houses to the bank then blow all their money on cruises after retirement so they leave their children with nothing. I've seen older people literally say that the inheritance tax is so high that they just won't bother leaving an inheritance at all. Literally the most narcissist, selfish generation in human history.
What's stopping them from just hiding a briefcase of cash for you before they eat it?
NTA but
>Literally the most narcissist, selfish generation in human history.
Boomers were the first really fatherless generation, whose best male father figures all got wiped out in Eisenhower's meatshield rushes in Normandy and Belgium.
By the time they were old enough to get higher education, American academia was already infested by nepotistic marxist cultist hivemind who emigrated from Europe decades earlier, so it was very easy to poison their minds with cosmopolitanism and self-hatred.
They never really had a chance.
>one party blue states
>"full democracy"
>purple/contested red states
>"flawed democracy" at best
Corresponds with IQ. Low IQ places would be shitholes run by caudillos and televangelist demagogues.
proof that IQ isn't everything
No, boomers were conceived AFTER the war, so obviously by the SURVIVORS.
They had fathers.
The boomer cohort coincided with the rise of hyperconsoomerism, but the decades long economic bubble meant they could have their avocado toast and eat it, while stripmining resources and wealth from future generations.
Boomer generation is not the same thing as boomer means now, their generation did not have avocado toast. They did butter toast with processed cinnamon which is not a very high quality cinnamon it mostly for flavoring of deserts. Or toaster strudels. Otherwise they just had buttered toast.
>Boomer generation is not the same thing as boomer means now
Well, "boomer now" seems to mean elder Millennial or Gen X. I'm under 40 and a homeowner. I didn't get to be a homeowner by paying $20 to be served $1.15 worth of food. That makes me a boomer apparently.
Well, maybe you can't now, but up until early 2020 you could. I bought my first home in 2018.
>What was the avocado toast of the boomer generation
Lawn care. I've never seen a generation so obsessed and also waste so much time, energy, and resources on grass. Absolute morons, I fricking hate all my boomer neighbors and their front lawn. You can even see the difference every 4th or 5th house has sprinklers and Mexicans there 4 times a week working on the front yard. Those are boomer houses. The millennials and gen x both just let the lawn be, maybe get it cut every 2 weeks, Maybe some dandelions pop up, nobody but boomers care so much about green grass.
My folks spent a lot of energy and time on their lawn but they basically ground covered and zero scaped it so much that it would both look better than the neighbors and they wouldn't have to cut the grass. Smart move IMO
normies are moronic, just buy bitcoin 10 years ago lol
Boomers spent an astonishing amount of money on completely worthless and ugly crap like 'collectible' figurines or cups or plates, which were often showcased in glass cabinets. If you look at popular magazines like Reader's Digest from the 1970's, they are full of ads for subscription services for this kind of junk. For $29.99/month, you would be mailed a new box of crap along with a couple holiday specials. And 'certificates of authenticity,' so that everyone will know that you own actual verified worthless garbage, rather than knockoff garbage.
It's a pretty nice plate tbh. But I'd want to eat a steak from it.
That's more like an NFT than avocado toast.
>For $29.99/month, you would be mailed a new box of crap along with a couple holiday specials
We still have subscription services, half of youtube lives and dies by their sponsorships.
Pic related.
Boomers tended to buy shitty mass market "sports cars" the moment they reached middle management level in their 30s. It will spend most of its life sitting in a garage doing frickall, while the Boomer makes monthly payments on it for reasons he cannot fully explain.
Marijuana and lsd were the avocado toast of the boomers.
>give ~50% of the population a vested interest in house price go up through individual ownership of low density homes
>house price goes up
how did avocado toast get a reputation as being bougir when its all cheap
Because of a meme of someone who paid $25 or some such outrageous sum to have avocado toast delivered to them, and went on social media to complain that the avocado wasn't smeared right.
Keeping the TV on all the time even if they're not listening to it, just like a low murmur that is constantly echoing. Max boomer points if it's Fox News. You go to visit them, you sit around on the couch in the living room as the TV plays but nobody is watching, it's just talking at a hum... "murmurmurmur it's terrible what is happening to our country ... yada yoo murmurmurmur ... back to Jesse Waters ... thanks murmur... murmurmurmur."
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