# A sad day for millennials: no more avocado toast **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473 "2022-02-14T17:57:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/1 "2022-02-14T17:57:28Z")
In a development that most certainly will not affect Tim Gurner, T[he USDA has frozen all inspections of avocado shipments originating in the Mexican state of Michoacan](https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/business/avocados-mexico-us/). Since 1) all avocados imported from Mexico come from Michoacan and 2) ~[90% of avocados sold in the US are imported from Mexico](https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00KP28.pdf) it means, at least temporarily, that avocados will be nearly impossible to find in the US unless the U.S. can find another source for the approximately 50,000 metric tons of avocados sold in the country each month. What a shame. [Now I don’t know what I shall put on my morning toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-smear-spread-sprinkle-on-or-otherwise-apply-to-toast-or-similar-surfaces/958316). And apparently, this thread is quite similar to one from 2003 about [Saddam equipping terrorists with nukes in the then-immediate future](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-stop-saddam-from-giving-wmd-to-terrorists-in-the-next-two-days/162218). Sure, Discourse. Sure. Might be time to figure out what your preferred smoke is laced with? It’s things like this that convince me that AI is just a pipe dream. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/2 "2022-02-14T18:06:29Z")
Now what will I feed my giant sloth… Seriously though, almost all avocado imports to the US can be shut down by a single threatening phone call to a single person? ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/3 "2022-02-14T18:13:10Z")
Yeah, in all seriousness this was my first question as well. The article notes that the industry has something like 300K people, from growers to end-chain sellers. That number seems high to me, but what do I know? Regardless, the entire process comes to a screeching halt because of something that happens to one single person? Something doesn’t add up. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/4 "2022-02-14T18:20:23Z")
Hey, I’m far from being a millennial–in fact, I gave _birth_ to millennials–and I’ve been eating avocado toast since before those young whippersnappers ever stumbled on it. Take that as a confession, I guess. I love avocados, and they love me, judging by the avocado plant that is somehow flourishing in the cloudy, wet climate of western Washington. The US imports 2.5 billion pounds of avocados from Mexico every year. It’s not just millennials who’re going to be bummed. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/5 "2022-02-14T18:20:58Z")
Damn. We bought avocados Saturday, I love them in ceviche and poke bowls. I’ll have to make these last… ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/6 "2022-02-14T18:25:18Z")
Despite being a Millennial myself (although only barely… I missed the cut-off from being GenX by about 6 months and I hate it yadda yadda yadda complaincomplaincomplain), I don’t eat many avocados. I like them quite a bit but it seems like whenever I buy them they aren’t quite ripe enough and then, suddenly, they are far too soft. So I quit trying. Trader Joe’s has some good guac but it’s too far for me to drive so, at this point, I just sorta do without. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/7 "2022-02-14T18:28:05Z")
Now what will the peons give up to be able to repay their college loans? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/8 "2022-02-14T18:32:59Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Now what will the peons give up to be able to repay their college loans?.. They’ll have to double give up their starbucks coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/9 "2022-02-14T20:07:32Z")
God. Damn. It. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/10 "2022-02-14T20:10:18Z")
But … but … there was just an “Avocados from Mexico” ad on the Super Bowl yesterday! How could this be happening?!? ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/11 "2022-02-14T20:25:25Z")
Avocados are big cartel business. If they are threatening US inspectors then that stuff needs to get shut down. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/12 "2022-02-14T20:27:41Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > **Avocados are big cartel business.** If they are threatening US inspectors then that stuff needs to get shut down. - What a bunch of dips. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/13 "2022-02-14T20:45:58Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > It’s not just millennials who’re going to be bummed. No kidding. Wife and I are 50+; we eat avocado toast twice a week, and full-plate salads with avocado 3X a week. We’ve been burning through 130 avocados a year since the pandemic started, so we’re gonna be a little irritable until this gets sorted out. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/14 "2022-02-14T20:55:16Z")
The only acceptable action is to cease all imports from Mexico until the person who phoned in the threat, AND EVERY PERSON UP THE CARTEL CHAIN OF COMMAND WHO AUTHORISED THE THREAT have their heads delivered to the nearest US embassy, with proof that they were the people involved. And I loathe avocado toast and avocados on salads. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/15 "2022-02-14T20:57:34Z")
I just bought some California grown avocados at the farmers market last weekend, so I am good for now. I was born right smack in the middle of that gray area between Gen X and Millennial, so I could probably claim either generation, but I tend to think of myself as an Elder Millennial. That said, I have never actually had avocado toast. However, I do find smashed avocado is a nice addition to many sandwiches, especially BLTs (which would make it a BLTA) and club sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/16 "2022-02-14T21:00:39Z")
This is very good news. Avocados appear on every damn thing and I get tired of asking people to leave out that slimy green nastiness. A few sweet weeks without them making an appearance will comfort my troubled soul. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/17 "2022-02-14T21:18:57Z")
I’m kind of curious what exactly the threat was. The drug cartels have been getting into the avocado business. Why, I dunno - profitable legit business? They like avocado toast, too? Regardless, the cartels are taking over the business. Of course, being law-breaking thugs they’ve been pretty brutal in doing so. I wonder if it’s a lower-level cartel member getting stupid/too big for his britches or if it came from higher up. The guys in charge of business - and both the legit and shady aspects of what they do are, at a certain level, business and intended to be profitable - should know better than to piss off their biggest customer, and should know that threatening health inspectors would do that. Of course, this may be a tip-of-the-iceberg/straw-that-breaks-the-camel’s-back thing - there could be more than just one threat going on here. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/18 "2022-02-14T21:25:14Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > The drug cartels have been getting into the avocado business. Why, I dunno - profitable legit business? I’m thinking its a way to smuggle their other goods into the country, maybe? Hence telling a random inspector who takes his job a little too serious to Back The Fuck Off or wind up un-living. Just a thought. I have one every now and then. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/19 "2022-02-14T21:33:27Z")
So, YOU’RE behind thus! I might have known. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/20 "2022-02-14T21:42:08Z")
I can tell you we aren’t getting avocados in the mineshafts, either. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473.md?page=2)