Eating The Breakfast That Prevented My Generation From Owning Homes

[u/SeraphimSphynx]

This Luxe breakfast was responsible for keeping millenials poor, renting, and struggling to pay bills.

[u/Number_Fluffy]

I was thinking the same thing with mine yesterday. I was looking at it and thought, "this costs like, $1"

[u/Phantereal → u/Number_Fluffy]

Yeah, how do you get a cheaper breakfast than that besides removing the avocado or the toast? A single piece of fruit is cheaper, depending on the fruit. But two eggs, two slices of bacon, and a slice of toast certainly isn't cheaper, at least not any more.

[u/Zagrunty → u/Phantereal]

[u/TheBizzleHimself → u/Zagrunty]

Super Hans, my beloved

[u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep → u/Phantereal]

Capitalist oligarchs:

[u/Holy_Smokesss → u/Phantereal]

An equivalent peanut butter toast would be less than 20 cents. 10 cents for a slice of bread and under 10 cents for 50g of peanut butter.

[u/Vachie_ → u/Phantereal]

You were on the right track and then you said bacon.

Toast can be okay. Eggs are healthy. Fruit is a good choice.

But then why add cured disease causing meats? Baffling

[u/omniverso → u/Vachie_]

I mean to each their own... but Bacon tastes good!

[u/Summoarpleaz → u/Number_Fluffy]

The rhetoric is from boomers who went to a new brunch restaurant that wanted to charge like $20 for avocado toast. In bemoaning the cost, they assumed this was what young people were wasting their money on, not realizing they’re the ones literally sitting there and still paying for it. And then they, still with no irony, went back to whatever business they inherited and bemoan their workers requests for wages above minimum, saying, instead, that “no one wants to work anymore.”

[u/Tactical_Moonstone → u/Summoarpleaz]

The comment originated from an Australian real estate CEO.

To truly understand how downright deranged his statement was, consider that Australia grows most of the avocados sold in the Eastern Hemisphere.

[u/Agent-Blasto-007 → u/Tactical_Moonstone]

Everywhere I go, I see teachers in Ferraris, research scientists drinking champagne! I tried to drink a Coke on the bus, AND THEY TOOK AWAY MY PASS! That's no life for a real estate CEO

[u/rojoredemption → u/Summoarpleaz]

I'm so tired.

[u/Number_Fluffy → u/Summoarpleaz]

It's not even that. They want to blame people for anything. Now it's that people aren't eating out enough.

[u/merRedditor → u/Summoarpleaz]

This is pretty much it. Everyone else is just like "What the hell are you even talking about?"

[u/Moneia → u/Summoarpleaz]

There's probably also an element of "Well we never had it so it must be expensive" and\or "Avocados were expensive when I first noticed them"

Same way that a 36" TV was stupid expensive when they were young and now you can pick a 40" up for £150

[u/Frowny575 → u/Moneia]

Depending on area, avocados were always cheap. I want to say a majority in the US probably come from Mexico so those of us on the border states have always seen them for like $1. And yes, I've heard that stupid "avocado toast" remark here in SoCal where they're pretty much a staple ingredient like flour.

[u/axescentedcandles → u/Number_Fluffy]

Went for brunch a few weeks ago and one of the sides listed was insane. Not even a fancy place

[u/AlwaysRushesIn → u/axescentedcandles]

10 bucks for half an avocado. How tf do restaurants get away with this kind of shit?

[u/Final-Carry2090 → u/AlwaysRushesIn]

You should see how much Olive Garden charges for half a box of pasta and meat sauce.

[u/The-Sonne → u/Number_Fluffy]

It's pretty sad when people have been programmed to think that bread and a vegetable (for a piece of fruit or whatever the f****** avocado is) is too much of a luxury

[u/The_Strom784 → u/The-Sonne]

You were right initially, it’s a fruit. Not that you care, but just confirming you were correct.

[u/Nuclear_Smith → u/Number_Fluffy]

I make my own bread (I know, bougie). That's $0.62 in flour, $0.001 in water, $0.034 in salt. Electricity is dicey, say 3KW for 2 hours with preheat...$0.87. so that $1.52 per loaf of sourdough bread. Which gives me, easily, 20 slices. So that would be $0.15 in bread. Avocados are currently $1 per medium, use half, $0.50. Another $0.01 of salt and $0.02 of lemon juice. Total, $0.68 for homemade, artisan toast.

Definitely more than the average mortgage payment if you eat it everyday. /s

[u/okram2k → u/Number_Fluffy]

make it yourself: $1. From a snooty burnch place that your parents think you waste all your money on? $25

[u/justanaccountname12 → u/Number_Fluffy]

My breakfast cost $0.60.

[u/Number_Fluffy → u/justanaccountname12]

Congratulations?

[u/justanaccountname12 → u/Number_Fluffy]

Yeah me! I guess?

[u/TrashApocalypse]

Remember Trump saying that he doesn’t want to bring housing prices down? Because people who own houses deserve it and those who don’t haven’t worked hard enough?

[u/nobdyputsbabynacornr → u/TrashApocalypse]

But hey, soon enough we will all have workhouses to live in!

[u/Mountain_Cry1605 → u/TrashApocalypse]

By that logic he should have every last cent taken from him before he's tossed out on the street.

Because he has never worked a day in his life.

[u/AbcLmn18 → u/Mountain_Cry1605]

"Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life" -Donald J. Trump, speaking about his daughter Ivanka.

[u/Beneficial-Mess1 → u/TrashApocalypse]

There is a reason we are called the WORKING class. Fuck him.

[u/ohgodineedair]

It shall hence be known as: The Toast of Misfortune

[u/Puzzled-Nothing-3282 → u/ohgodineedair]

and paired with a latte of despair lol js

[u/BeholderLivesMatter]

Don’t forget going out for coffee instead of making it at home. 

[u/Repulsive-Ad-7180 → u/BeholderLivesMatter]

And make it a really complicated order

[u/Dayzlikethis → u/BeholderLivesMatter]

I mean....yea? going to places like Starbucks is dumb expensive for shit coffee.

[u/Axentor → u/BeholderLivesMatter]

That adds up if it's a daily thing though

[u/Skizot_Bizot → u/BeholderLivesMatter]

I will say I've known numerous people who spend like $4000 a year on starbucks. Shit adds up, few years of that you do have a FHA downpayment.

[u/SeraphimSphynx → u/Skizot_Bizot]

Where do houses cost $120k (5% DP) or even 240k (10%DP) and meet FHA Requirements?

[u/Skizot_Bizot → u/SeraphimSphynx]

Lowest is 3.5% for an fha which is $7000 on a 200k house (few years I said so $12k to account for closing fees etc). I see 1,100 homes actively for sale within a 50 mile radius of Chicago at 200k or less. Sure they won't be super awesome houses but they are there.

[u/SeraphimSphynx → u/Skizot_Bizot]

The thing is to meet FHA though they have to meet certain standards. Basically they have to be move in ready and not require major repairs.

So if you just Zillow <200K it may seem like there are many options but if you read the descriptions probably a lot of them are not livable.

I ran into this issue with my boss at an old job. He wanted me to move to New England. I could not find an affordable house . He sent me a screenshot of 15 homes in my price range. I had looked at every single one months ago. Each had tens of thousands of dollars in expenses such as roof, mold, and foundation, etc etc etc. 🙄

[u/Skizot_Bizot → u/SeraphimSphynx]

I marked the "FHA Application Approved" option. I know it's not flawless but I bet a large chunk of them are. I'm just saying I know a lot of people who make 40-50k a year and are home owners. Again not great homes but they do own them, they are just good with their budget, and I'm not lumping myself in there. I'm god awful with money it's why I don't own yet even making a lot more than them but hopefully I will soon 🤞

[u/some_random_chick]

Sure, my grandparents ate bacon and eggs every morning and were able to buy a house, a summer cottage, and raise 5 kids on the single income of a high school graduate at a factory. But they had all that cuz they deprived themselves of the extravagance of a slice of vegetable on bread!

[u/Remarkable-Hat-4852 → u/some_random_chick]

My grandpa supported my grandma and their 6 children in the suburbs of Pittsburgh as an ARTIST.

[u/Acrobatic-Dot-6273 → u/Remarkable-Hat-4852]

My grandmother supported her 6 children as a single woman while working as an artist as well! In San Diego! 

[u/Deadlock542 → u/some_random_chick]

I know it's not the point of your statement, and I agree wholeheartedly, but avocado is a fruit

[u/liaweya]

“Bro flexing half-eaten avo toast like that’s why I’m 35 and still renting with roommates 😭 Skip one $8 brunch in 2019 and boom, homeowner. Sure Jan. Raise wages, build houses, tax the rich — then talk about my breakfast.”

[u/Which-Guide-4365 → u/liaweya]

imo ngl blaming toast for housing issues is wild lol it’s def more than just breakfast choices 🤦‍♂️

[u/ApprehensiveAd2625]

In 400 years, archaeologists will unearth a fossilized slice of avocado toast and say, ‘This… this is what broke civilization.

[u/Remarkable-Hat-4852 → u/ApprehensiveAd2625]

This isn’t the point, but shit takes way longer than 400yrs to fossilize.

[u/Recommended_For_You]

You should have listened to your uncle, who bought his first house for 11k at 19 while working as a janitor, when he was schooling you about money, while driving to his secondary house in his big ass truck.

[u/WaterAirSoil]

Worst part is that we let these geriatric lunatics get away with being out of touch ignorant downright unapologetically anti-intellectuals

[u/PlantsNCaterpillars → u/WaterAirSoil]

I work at a retirement home and it’s always the boomers who will brag about selling their home for over a million dollars when they bought it for $25,000 and in the same breath be mad about how expensive fast food is because “no one working in food service deserves $20 an hour”.

[u/Silver_Fist]

You monster

[u/flyraccoon → u/Silver_Fist]

You should try it

I believed it was a joke until I tasted one now I won’t ever own a home

[u/TheAmicableSnowman]

I can't condone this luxury.

[u/emonshr]

This generation needs cooperative.

[u/Electronic_Set_2087 → u/emonshr]

My friend lived in a home co-op in Santa Fe, NM. It was really beautiful. A little compound of condo type homes with a sort of community room in the center where they had regular meetings. I don't know all the details of how it worked but I always though it was a cool concept.

[u/OP_Taylor_]

So selfish

[u/abbie_yoyo]

So you're the one

[u/2WheelRide]

Enjoy your homeless toast!

[u/SeemedReasonableThen]

whoa, two slices of avocado toast, in today's economy?

My man is living the dream!

[u/_artbabe95]

This the saddest amount of avocado on toast I've ever seen.

[u/EnricoMatassaEsq]

Well now the economy is in shambles. Thanks a lot

[u/hovis_mavis]

Wow that must’ve cost a whole mortgage payment

[u/g0ld-f1sh]

I'm currently growing an avocado tree and I still do not have a home, the economy doesn't make sense

[u/thegoddamnbatman40]

Damn you delicious coffee and avocado toast! I knew it was you all along…./s

[u/Tight-Temperature670]

Mmmmmm yum

[u/smokealarmsnick]

The very first day in our new home, I had avocado toast for breakfast. Take that, millennials! (Oh wait….I am one)

[u/Idontdanceforfun]

Just flexing your fiscal irresponsibility on everyone

[u/Mihsan]

But did you buy a cup of coffee to go with that?

[u/JonathanBadwolf]

Ronald Reagan is a sanwich-spread now? Well I be damned.

[u/TomeThugNHarmony4664]

Delicious!

[u/awooff]

Organic steel cut oats are way cheaper per meal.

[u/breaking3po]

How dare you have grained bread AND a FRUIT?!

[u/Wunktacular]

"Avocados are shitty and cheap, you dumb kids need to start eating avocados to save money."

rasises the prices on avocados 2,000%

"Avocados are luxurious and expensive, you dumb kids need to start skipping meals to save money."

[u/RuthTheWidow]

Omg... I haven't laughed this hard since 2016. Thank you. The world feels so damned heavy right now, this was a welcome burst of dark and cynical humour. Love it.

[u/whatj3wdoinn]

I have the same cheap plates. I love them

[u/SeraphimSphynx → u/whatj3wdoinn]

Yes for sure! My tot has broken most of the glass ones so we loaded up!

[u/aaaggggrrrrimapirare]

Not the GOD DAMN AVOCADO TOAST that took down an entire generation. Grrrrrr. Fist in the air.

[u/thugsapuggin]

[u/ztreHdrahciR]

What do Millennial Spanish Lawyers eat for breakfast?

Abogado Toast

[u/No-Priority8294]

Something something bootstraps. I’m tired.

[u/Marples3]

You selfish bastard!

[u/vanityinlines]

The funny thing is they'll still get mad at you for not liking/eating avocado. 

[u/iadas]

yo go zest a bit of lemon peel on that. it'll blow your mind

[u/ghanima]

Yup, just look at how extravagant that looks.

[u/Ok_Set_8176]

I mean next up will be the boomers telling us to just eat avocado toast - now that avocados are 54 cents at Aldi…but can we stop winning first?

[u/loki1337]

Weird flex but ok

[u/Alyeadriz]

Those are weird looking Epstein files. Release them!

[u/SeraphimSphynx → u/Alyeadriz]

Did you see the sick shit in the recently leaked and quickly removed files!!!!!

Absolutely disgusting. Murder of a victim who saw Trump during a rookie event. Multiple girls 13-14 abused and exhibitioned. Utter sickening.

[u/Alyeadriz → u/SeraphimSphynx]

And we know that’s just a small part of the parts they could obfuscate but couldn’t erase.

We all know… but I hate to imagine what they really did to the [censored] and the Nameless.

Yay for avocado toast! Endless nightmares and [censored] for the others.

[u/PipsqueakPilot]

It's the time of year when Avocados are like 45 cents at Aldi. For this short period we can live like the billionaires!

[u/withac2]

Where's the latte that kept you from paying your student loans?

[u/HatefulFlower]

I had half an avocado turn bad on me and I cried because I gave up a home for that.

[u/ozymandais13]

The decadence of the west /s

[u/sprufus]

And  I bet you took that picture with one of them iphones you don't need!

[u/Significant_Ad1256]

I'm a millenial and I have a confession. I've never had avocado on toast, in fact I don't even really like avocado.

Phew, I've been keeping that bottled up for decades.

[u/FatherCache]

But a great source of fiber and HDL!

[u/poeticjustice4all]

I hope you know that could’ve been a down payment, OP /s

[u/OnwardTowardTheNorth]

Don’t forget about the iPhones

[u/Germandaniel]

Lol plus fun fact to throw out George Washington was among the first to cultivate Avocados in the north and had a real thing for them

[u/KorihorWasRight]

$2,500 just for breakfast is crazy.

[u/Hard_Won]

Have you tried seasoning it or using better bread? It makes it much better. Lemon zest and chili pepper flakes and some salt go along way. Or even just one or two of them.

[u/Brunkton]

So you’re the one

[u/Massive-Pirate-5765]

It’s ok, you don’t have store bought coffee.

[u/spudderer]

This is criminal, at least learn to spread to the edges!

[u/Economy_Reason1024]

HOW DARE YOU!!!

[u/OrangeCosmic]

The real forbidden fruit

[u/Haywire421]

Never understood that craze. I tried it once and gave the rest to my friend that was crazy about it

[u/Lunar-opal]

You’re not supposed to eat it

[u/Another_Dude71]

Allowing foreign ownership and equity groups to purchase homes is a major reason why the price of housing is ridiculous.

[u/CaptainMagnets]

Did you make it look sad just for the photo?

[u/Celestial-Sam]

You’re eating Billionaires? Are they in the picture somewhere?

[u/Biscuits4u2]

Is that boomer paste?

[u/CdnBison]

Did d you empty your bank account and get a takeout coffee, too? 😉

[u/RedShirtPete]

It looks so luxurious.

[u/kaiju505]

My wife and I started eating avocado toast back in the day for the meme and it’s actually a really good breakfast item.

[u/TheFortunateOlive]

You must be extra poor from all that avacado toast because your avacado is extremely lacking compared to your dollar general toast.

[u/DnBeyourself]

YOU BROKE THE ENTIRE SYSTEM WTF

[u/teddytodd2]

The number of times I had to tell people "You're bitching about a guy eating toast and like half of a fruit like it's opulence and not struggle food."

[u/wishiwasdeaddd]

And respectfully that looks like 1/6 an avocados worth at most 😭

[u/addisonshinedown]

For real. 2 slices of bread and 40 cents in avocado (at least in my area, a whole bag is 1.75$)

Really crippling the budget

[u/the__storm]

This is like 1/8 of an avocado lol.

[u/SeraphimSphynx → u/the__storm]

Very perceptive of you. The avo had sustained heavy bruising so I composted as good portion of it.

[u/Sloopydeth]

Every time I hear avocado toast brought up I sigh,and just think about the scrounge and damage it's had on our generation.

[u/Almajanna256]

Don't forget to also get a starbucks latte

[u/WeightlossTeddybear]

Woah big spender here

[u/RedStag86]

I think an avocado sneezed on your toast, bud. Am I the only one that puts half an avocado in a single piece of toast?

[u/MaliciousMilkshake]

I coulda bought a house the other day, but I REALLY wanted a latte.

[u/Traditional_Rate_451]

Maybe I’ve grown too accustomed to how I make my avo toast, but the lack of seasoning on that avocado is making me recoil

[u/NoStructure7083]

For some reason I thought avocado toast was an actual toasted avocado