# A sad day for millennials: no more avocado toast

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-day-for-millennials-no-more-avocado-toast/959473/26 "2022-02-14T22:21:54Z")

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My dear Americans, I am sorry to be the one bringing this news to you, but avocado is actually a linguistical corruption of either the French _[avocat](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocat_(m%C3%A9tier))_ or of the Italian _[avvocato](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvocato)_, both meaning not the slimy fruit (when it is not hard and insipid as a raw potato) but lawyer. I can understasnd that you like to eat corrupt lawyers, not what I would do, but OK, you be you. You have too many of them anyway. On toast, of course, I get it. But the correct name for this fruit is **aguacate**.  
That the most commercially popular cultivar of the aguacate worldwide (and in the USA) is the [Hass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hass_avocado)-variety does not make it any better. Hass is German for hate.

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