# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/61 "2022-02-18T23:02:04Z")
I saw a headline that the Mexican import suspension has been lifted. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/62 "2022-02-18T23:50:25Z")
> **[U.S. government allows Mexican avocado imports to resume after brief suspension](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/18/us-government-allows-mexican-avocado-imports-to-resume-after-brief-suspension.html)** > > The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that imports of Mexican avocados could resume after a brief pause. Yep. ---
**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 19, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/63 "2022-02-19T01:26:41Z")
The Yuccies are saved! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NmPhaG1ud38/hqdefault.jpg "And There Was Much Rejoicing...") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmPhaG1ud38) ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/64 "2022-02-19T17:49:52Z")
Avocados are not big cartel business. The cartels extort the growers and packers. They aren’t the growers and packers. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/65 "2022-02-19T20:10:04Z")
Like how 70% of European olive oil is fake but it’s not a big business for the mafia because they don’t own the olive trees? Protection rackets were never big money makers because the criminals didn’t own the businesses. Prostitutes are never big business because the pimps don’t have pussies? ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/66 "2022-02-19T20:23:17Z")
Can’t help but think that taking over the avocado business, or at least distribution, could be a way to launder money Anyhow, read on CNN today that the ban is off and the avocados will flow again. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/67 "2022-02-19T20:34:38Z")
Avacados seemed everywhere in the grocery store today. Maybe they got some catch up shipments. Weren’t on sale though. The larger ones were 1.99 a piece. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/68 "2022-02-22T18:07:05Z")
Never Mind. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/69 "2022-02-22T18:10:20Z")
Yep. Avocados looking a bit too ripe at Trader Joe’s yesterday. Avocado toast today. I still would be willing to forgo it if cartels threaten our inspectors about it again. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/70 "2022-02-22T18:51:37Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Avocados have also soared popularity in the Midwest during that time period as well. Back in the 1990’s they were seen as “exotic” in this part of the country. My mom grew up in Ohio, but moved to California during WWII. She had heard of avocados and decided to try them once she moved here. She went to the market and picked them ased on what she’d been told to do when buying fruit – she picked the firmest. Not surprisingly, she hated it! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/71 "2022-02-22T20:48:15Z")
In fourth grade (1972) my class went on to a field trip to a Dept. of Agriculture research farm where we were turned loose on an avocado orchard and told we could take home whatever we found on the ground. Our parents acted like we had returned with the riches of El Dorado. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/72 "2022-02-23T01:16:41Z")
I just ate a delicious avocado sprinkled with coarse salt, smoked paprika, and medium red pepper. ETA: No toast; I’m doing keto. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/73 "2022-02-23T03:46:02Z")
This is all starting to look like a brilliant, New Coke-esque gambit by the cartel. Avocado prices stagnating? Let’s see what people are willing to pay after a few days staring into the grim prospect of a future without them! They probably don’t even need to sell us meth anymore! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473.md?page=3)